Re: 767 in Airborne hangar TPA

Re: Air Cargo (non-Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2021

V6Aveo: Could be right. Good points. Don't know the answer. Still seems weird for some plane broker to basically say, "I have a 747-800BCF here for ya." To expound a bit on my thought, because it wasn't that clear, is that one is planning into a murky-future if one gets aboard. First, how...

Re: CRAF 747F range performance?

I've worked for two CRAF 747 carriers, in my experience the vast majority of AMC charters aren't anywhere close to topping out weight-wise. Many are closer to half a 744's max payload.

Re: Air Cargo (non-Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2021

CX747: Great find! So interesting. Of course they don't mention all the people that stand there with their hands out at ORD, just to get them to provide "normal" service. At RFD, they're falling all over themselves to be helpful. Also, your article finally answered my question about why s...

Re: DHL Network And Fleet Thread - 2021

SkyVoice wrote:

Are any of the 777s scheduled into CVG?

Re: iAero Airways Receiving a 767-300

Not sure what it'd be coming to YIP for. It's entirely possible Kalitta will be doing maintenance work on it, but that would be at OSC.

Re: Cargo in passenger cabin

True freighters don't generally have fire suppression systems on the main deck, at least on aircraft where the crew has access inflight. In this case it would be the same as on a passenger flight, crew would be using handheld fire extinguishers.

Re: Peak Season 2020 Cargo/Express Discussion Thread

If I were do a plot showing daily departures of cargo aircraft by type here in the US, what are interesting cargo airports worth looking at after SDF, MEM, and CVG? Perhaps ANC, LAX, JFK, ORD, and MIA? ANC for sure. All those you listed plus keep an eye on RFD, IND, ILN, maybe HNL. Also check out L...

Re: Peak Season 2020 Cargo/Express Discussion Thread

vegasplanes wrote:

https://flightaware.com/live/fleet/CKS

CKS 562 / 564 /566 flights from MEM-HNL/LAX/SFO appear to be behalf of FedEx

Re: Peak Season 2020 Cargo/Express Discussion Thread

K4 has 4 744s in USPS CNET service, and will all month. Currently N709CK, N713CK, N741CK, and N744CK. Tails are likely to be rotating in and out.

Re: Which hotel has the best view on planes at LAX?

Rooftop deck at the H Hotel (Hilton Curio Collection) is spectacular. I'll be there next month.

Re: Do any FBOs use jetways?

Multiple FBO's have them, few use them. KFOE-Topeka, Kansas. Million Air.Old terminal building and the jetway is used for military charters. KSBD-San Bernardino, California. Million Air was original franchise and it is one of the nicest FBO's in the world. Has it's own jetway connecting to it's ver...

Re: Why is DL186 today taking a northerly polar route eastbound!?

Like any decent-sized airline with scheduled transpacific flights, Delta undoubtedly has numerous canned routes to choose from for each city pair, and seasonal Russia overflights for each scheduled flight. Not to mention the ability to optimize all or portions of a route on a day-to-day basis. The w...

Re: Why did Delta retire NWA's 747-200F?

Almost all of the NW 747-200Fs went to Kalitta Air after the merger. Several flew for a number of years after that; N795CK, the last US-registered -200 in revenue service, was retired in 2017. It and one of its sister ships were sold after K4 parked them, and are still flying for a cargo operator so...

Re: Amazon Fleet Growing

International: right on cue. http://www.aircargonews.net/news/airlines/freighter/single-view/news/comment-has-amazon-really-added-flights-to-china.html Smart article. Thanks for posting! This article recognizes the freight-brokerage service that has been talked about for some time, regarding exactl...

Re: With the 747-8i all but dead, can the 747-8F gain significant orders as a result of earlier 747 freighters retiring?

I doubt it. Boeing is buying back a lot of mid-life 747-400 passenger frames and converting them to freighters (or at least those that Kalitta Air isn't buying for parts). These will be sitting waiting for other 747-400s to run out of hours. Last year, CAL Cargo Airlines received a 747-400 that was...

Re: Why isn't Amazon Prime Air an IATA member?

A "non-airline airline". Is that like a "non-bank bank"? That's going to be walking a tightrope. With Amazon's legal and regulatory prowess, I would think it would be less overhead, and less expensive, to be certificated. Speculation: Amazon tries out various certificated carrie...

Re: Cargo roller floor

I know AAR owns STC's and supports existing roller systems (although they may have bought Ancra) I would expect them to use equipment from Ancra, Telair or UTAS. Boeing used to make their own cargo handling equipment on the old 747s, but nowadays, I believe it is all made by the three major supplie...

Re: Amazon Fleet Growing

So I looked at all the Sunday flights, and as a broad sweeping generalization, everything that bypasses CVG, and almost everything going TO CVG was on-time. However, virtually everything LEAVING CVG was late, by about an hour on average, often much more. . Frequently the case with DHL ops as it is....

Re: DL 744 still flying?

Nobody is converting 747s into freighters anymore. Unless a pax airline picks them up for cheap, they'll be broken up. Really? When did IAI-Bedek stop converting them? Asiana is having one combi converted to full BDSF, that'll almost certainly be the last one. There are enough available on the mark...

Re: Airlines that have been all-747

Varsity1 wrote:

Kalitta

Re: One of the last airworthy Boeing 747-200s flies into retirement Kalitta Air

What a coincidence that another 747-200 owned by Rolls Royce landed just hours earlier at the same Kalitta base.. Indeed, sounds like she's in for some heavy maintenance. Would be interesting to know what the hours/cycles are on that bird as well. I wonder if any of 793's salvageable parts will fin...

Re: Best regional to work for out of MEM?

Republic's NYC and ORD domiciles would be relatively easy to get to, with all three majors flying to NYC (if you include EWR), and UA and AA going to ORD, plus WN to MDW. In the case of Chicago, Skywest would be decent as well, DTW and MSP would probably be doable. Skywest's Western bases would mayb...

Re: Kalitta Air 747-200f

She's off. N793CK departed AMS on her final revenue flight about 35 minutes ago, with an ETA into JFK of 12:25 local time. Current plan is to ferry to OSC for storage on Sunday April 23rd, departing in the morning.

Re: AS adds DAL-SEA/PDX/SJC/SAN

flyDTW1992 wrote:

She's off. N793CK departed AMS on her final revenue flight about 35 minutes ago, with an ETA into JFK of 12:25 local time. Current plan is to ferry to OSC for storage on Sunday April 23rd, departing in the morning.

Re: AS adds DAL-SEA/PDX/SJC/SAN

She's off. N793CK departed AMS on her final revenue flight about 35 minutes ago, with an ETA into JFK of 12:25 local time. Current plan is to ferry to OSC for storage on Sunday April 23rd, departing in the morning.

Re: Baltia to lease 767-300ER

Same S#!%, different day as far as I can tell.

Re: Amazon Fleet Growing

By the way, just throwing this out there... I personally hope that there is no labor action by ABX pilots on 5/1, but not for the reason you might think. I personally believe -- and I understand that I am pessimistic about this stuff, but I still believe it -- that the DHL ground handling show on 5...

Re: 757F vs 767F

Keep in mind FedEx still has dozens (50 or so?) of new 767-300Fs on order, and 767-300ERs are lined up for conversion slots at the moment. I think both the 757 and 767 freighter fleets have plenty of life ahead of them, but since 767s are still coming off the line, they'll likely be around quite a b...

Re: B747F at FL450?!

KFLLCFII wrote:

b747400erf wrote:

That is the max cruise altitude of the -400ERF when empty.

What's the approximate maximum range when empty?

Re: Dutch safety board: Schiphol has to improve traffic safety before growing

Related: The airport recently came out saying new slot awards will be extremely limited as the airport has reached capacity based on environmental and noise factors. It's caused some issues for ad-hoc cargo operations in and out of AMS for the past few weeks.

Re: Boeing HQ Announcement

Dumb question: Does this mean the subsidiary companies will be moving, i.e., will Jeppesen move from CO to TX?

Re: Is air freight replacing sea freight wherever possible?

OP needs to just look at cost. If I want to send a stuffed 40 foot container from Shenzhen to Long Beach it is about 2000 right now by sea. If I want to ship 500 POUNDS from Shenzhen to LAX it is right around 2500 bucks. Air freight can't even compare. True, but it's also a matter of knowing what k...

Re: Boeing to lease 747's

Channex757 wrote:

kitplane01 wrote:

Channex757 wrote:

BCA has certainly dabbled in secondhand too. Their purchase and lease-out of those A343s from SQ is well known, and they do the same with their own metal.

Re: Boeing to lease 747's

I can think of a certain US based cargo carrier (one with some older 747 frames to eventually replace) that Boeing would still love to win over for a handful of 747-8Fs.

Leasing direct from Boeing might just be the right way to do it, too.

Re: Detroit Air Service Discussion Part 5

DL plans to do 10x weekly 76W to split with PDX, now that DL is getting additional LHR slots that could change. This is interesting because other US markets with less demand to London have the same if not a better level of service, PHX would be a good example of that. From what I understand, the re...

Re: Detroit Air Service Discussion Part 5

Dtw is already in trouble there's no way you get these flights because you're in between ORD and Toronto. Airlines would rather put their planes there than in Detroit because the city is simply a dump. Everyone is loosing money in Detroit I'm surprised jetblue hasn't ended flights yet. Delta doesn'...

Re: Amazon Fleet Growing

The most recent post on here describing the network is currently valid. Just go back a few pages. Nothing has been added in probably two months. Most of the rumors are just fantasy and speculation. The only thing that we know for sure is that the two atsg airlines are currently flying 15 of the 20 ...

Re: Detroit Air Service Discussion Part 5

I used to like a.net.....up until about 2008. It used to be alot about the industry and now its just rampant fanboyism of airlines and/or airports or hub-envy. First of all let me just say that because someone works in the industry doesn't make their points any more valid than another's point of vi...

Re: Last passenger 747-200s gone

Will Kalitta fly the -400 on their LAX-HNL route? I assume you're talking about Kalitta's N793CK? 793 & 794CK are retiring? Why? Yes, a -400BCF will be assigned to the HNL run. And yes, 793's the last one. 794 is already parked). The rumor is that the company has several more -400s on the way t...

Re: Last passenger 747-200s gone

The last 747-200 Freighter in the US will be retired within the next several weeks.

Re: Amazon Fleet Growing

K9 doesn't have any pax Lear's at this point, do they? Oh yeah. Several. They fly passenger, small cargo, and air ambulance flights. One is almost always on standby for internal use by K9 and K4 (moving parts and crews, shuttling management to meetings, etc.) And Wj, I wouldn't be surprised if it w...

Re: Amazon Fleet Growing

Full grown men, who are qualified pilots and have experience on 747/767/777 aircraft are being "tricked"? If you sat down in a Southern Air 777F cockpit next to me and said you were "tricked" into this over an Atlas 747-8F, I'd tell you to screw your head on straight or go call ...

Re: Surprise: another 744 F-conversion

This explains why they're currently leasing 744Fs from both Atlas and Kalitta. Must really be hurting for capacity.

Re: Detroit Air Service Discussion Part 5

This whole thread has gotten a whole lot of stupid with the hub d$%@-measuring envy and butthurt, the WCAA witch-hunt, revisionist history and other tangential arguments. The reality is that: 1) DL at DTW is going to grow in conjunction with the global/national/regional economy and GDP 2) the overa...

Re: UofM Basketball team plane off runway @YIP

Plane has been picked up and moved onto the Kalitta ramp. Investigation looks to be ongoing, lots of vehicles, floodlights, etc. still in place around it. Tail cone and some other debris are still sitting across the road. Area is still crawling with Airport PD and their rent-a-cops.

Re: Detroit Air Service Discussion Part 5

With all due respect, why on Earth do you think DL pursued Richard Anderson as CEO? Even before DL & NW filed for bankruptcy, it was widely reported that the two had flirted with a merger. It wasn't until DL successfully fought off US' hostile bid and named Richard Anderson CEO that talks progr...

Re: UofM Basketball team plane off runway @YIP

That could have been a lot worse than it was. I have to wonder now if Ameristar might replace the other MD83 now with older 737 NGs. NGs are popular and expensive, they could have picked up some 600s maybe? They have or had a -200, N467TW. Ameristar operates old aircraft, and I mean old. Still flyi...

Re: UofM Basketball team plane off runway @YIP

Wouldn't surprise me if it ends up in USA Jet's mini-boneyard on the other side of the field.

Re: UofM Basketball team plane off runway @YIP

Went and saw it after a coworker texted me. Said they could hear it from inside the Kalitta building just down the street, he heard the thrust reverse followed by a loud bang/crash. Definitely was a bit surreal seeing the aircraft sitting there across the road from the airfield. Extremely fortunate ...