Crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1616 posts, RR: 6 Posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 12424 times:
Just spotted on Flight Explorer, a NWA DC-10 flying from VCV to Fort Benning on a military charter. About two weeks ago, I brought up the subject of NWA retaining DC-10's during the NFL playoffs. I forgot about the military charters though. So the question is, when will the "real" final NWA DC-10 flight occur. Is there a bona-fide timetable of when the airline will actually withdraw the a/c from final service???
MCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8557 posts, RR: 14 Reply 1, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 12376 times:
I believe they'll use them for charters till the end of January.
Electech6299 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 616 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 12304 times:
Well this is a first...
I've heard the DC-10 called many things, but I've never heard it called "sneaky"
Send not to know for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee
RyDawg82 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 819 posts, RR: 8 Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 12018 times:
Quoting AsstChiefMark (Reply 4): So are we going to have a new thread every time they pull one out of the garage for wash?
God help us all.
No need to call on the big guy upstairs over this, you don't have to read these posts
Great to see NW getting a little more life out of these DC-10s.
-R
You can take the pup out of Alaska, but you can't take the Alaska out of the pup.
Azjubilee From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 3563 posts, RR: 29 Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 11937 times:
They always said Jan 8 was the last day of SCHEDULED service with the DC10.
Key word... scheduled.
Crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1616 posts, RR: 6 Reply 8, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 11344 times:
So instead of the various sarcastic responses, I simply asked a question if anybody knew how long NWA was going to keep the DC-10's flying. Moronic responses are not necessary!
Planespotting From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3440 posts, RR: 5 Reply 9, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 11334 times:
Quoting Crownvic (Reply 8): Moronic responses are not necessary!
moronic responses are a fact of life here on a-net
5mileBob From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 104 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 11283 times:
Very early Thursday morning, an NWA DC-10 left MSP to Ft. Benning. We asked the pilot what was up, and he replied that the aircraft was to be used for future military charters.
Beech19 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 11, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 11216 times:
Quoting 5mileBob (Reply 10): Very early Thursday morning, an NWA DC-10 left MSP to Ft. Benning. We asked the pilot what was up, and he replied that the aircraft was to be used for future military charters.
With over 21000 new troops heading to Baghdad i bet they will get some use here. They certainly won't run them all over in C-5's and C-117's... though some will.
Beech19 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 13, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 11101 times:
Quoting Briboy (Reply 12): That would be a *Long* flight.
Beech19 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 15, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 11050 times:
Quoting Jelle (Reply 14): With Bush sending 20,000 or more soldiers over to the Gulf we may see the DC-10 around for a little while ......
Thanks for updating us on that...
I THOUGHT i had already covered that almost an hour ago...
Burnsie28 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 7421 posts, RR: 9 Reply 16, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 10485 times:
N908AW From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 848 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 10234 times:
Quoting Beech19 (Reply 15): Thanks for updating us on that...
I THOUGHT i had already covered that almost an hour ago...
Common mistake...I'm sure you go through each and every post every time you post something.
'Cause you're on ATA again, and on ATA, you're on vacation!
Beech19 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 18, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 10190 times:
Quoting N908AW (Reply 17): Common mistake...I'm sure you go through each and every post every time you post something.
Yes i do... a pet peeve of mine is people who don't... sorry.
Besides this thread is only 14 post long at the time, not hundreds. And it was only three posts earlier i said that...
Pilottim747 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1607 posts, RR: 5 Reply 19, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 9680 times:
Anyone know whether its N234NW or N237NW doing these charters?
pilottim747
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Gunsontheroof From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3462 posts, RR: 11 Reply 21, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 8655 times:
I think we're all overlooking what's really interesting about this...
TZTriStar500 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1420 posts, RR: 9 Reply 23, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 7759 times:
Quoting Pilottim747 (Reply 19): Anyone know whether its N234NW or N237NW doing these charters?
pilottim747
Yes, it is those two aircraft which are to be delivered to TZ in March and April. They should be out of NW service in Feb/Mar.
35 years of American Trans Air/ATA Airlines, 1973-2008. A great little airline that will not be soon forgotten.
FlyDreamliner From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 2759 posts, RR: 15 Reply 24, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 6639 times:
The DC-10s won't ever die, they have more hours on them than nearly anything else flying and they are still going strong.
NW has them, might as well put them to use, as well as to sub in on holidays and what not to add capacity.
Never hurts.
Quoting RyDawg82 (Reply 5):
Great to see NW getting a little more life out of these DC-10s.
They are good to have around, as they make great backups for the A330s.
Quoting Burnsie28 (Reply 16): Quoting Airfoilsguy (Reply 7):
2. They sell their last DC-10
They already sold their DC-10's
Have they sold all of them, I was under the impression some of them were so far going to be retained.
"Let the world change you, and you can change the world"
25 AADC10137: Just a question, if you dislike the DC-10 so much why do you respond to the DC-10 threads?? We all do because we love the A/C...Rgds
26 MCOflyer: The D10 is a good a/c and it wil be good with TZ. How many pilots odes NW have trained on the D10 currently? MCOflyer
27 TZTriStar500: They have all been sold except for perhaps one left, but it is stored in MZJ. The last two operating, N234NW and N237NW, have been sold to TZ. These
28 A340Spotter: There's been a lot of activity between VCV-LSF, not just with NW DC-10s. At least 2 TZ B753s have been running back and forth the past few days as wel
29 Crownvic: Planespotting...At least it got better real quick!
30 United_fan: Still flying them as of yesterday... http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NWA9992
31 FlyDreamliner: Impressive. Thanks for the info. This is certainly a new leaf at NW, where they've clung tooth and nail to anything on its way out. Just think, anoth
32 United_Fan: I really doubt the 9's will be gone by then.I hope not,I love seeing and hearing them in ROC.
33 Centrair: Wooooo....hold your horses. Year or so? Year or 5-10. The -10s gone, -200s not much longer (787s will enter fleet first and some 744s will be moved).
34 GARUDAROD: There are a whole string of NW LD-3s at the boneyard in LAS that werent there a few days ago. Wonder if the ole Diesel 10 dropped into Vegas lately.
35 5mileBob: Another NWA DC-10 came into MSP tonight (1-14-07) from VCV.
36 Mudboy: When NWA retired the DC10-40s, they were flown to Greenwood, MS. to be scrapped by the Memphis group. Does anyone know if they have any going there, o
37 TZTriStar500: The -30s have been mostly flown to MZJ for onward sale although a few have been scrapped. Some where sold to Omni and flown to TUL. TZ has bought 9 a
38 LTBEWR: There Alive! There Alive! I think some of the DC-10's seem to have more lives than a cat. ATA loves those old 3-holers (including L-1011's), and I am
40 DTW757: Northwest is suppose to take delivery of 8 more A330's in 2007. Perhaps some of them will be used for these contracts?
41 KL577: Yesterday afternoon there was an NWA DC-10 in AMS (old livery/didn't see reg). It was parked at gate E22 and it seemed it was taking passengers (to MS
42 EHAM: N234NW landed in horrible weather @ AMS this afternoon, flight is continuing to KWI later today.
44 DTW757: Well we are one step closer to not seeing any of these flights. This site reports the DC10 being gone by the end of the month. http://www.mspupdate.co
45 Aaresl: N234NW/46912 Status: Stored 09/01/07 http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-dc10-46912.htm Stored, but still "sneaks" around?
46 United_Fan: Here's another charter! http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NWA9847
48 Wjcandee: NW doesn't really hold contracts to do military charters. They register their aircraft in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, which subjects them to callup
49 Wjcandee: Very few deployments are handled on cargo aircraft like C-17s and C-5s, at least for the ride from CONUS to the outskirts of the operating theater, o
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Unless they are leasing the planes they just sold??
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