Osprey88 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 330 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1199 times:
Quoting Jourdan747 (Thread starter): Anyone know anything about Alaska Airlines flight 7635 today? Is it a charter?
Its a 734, so its probably their dedicated cargo bird.
Can't seem to find a pic of it in the database...
"Reading departure signs in some big airports reminds me of the places I've been"
Spirtofalaska From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 192 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1192 times:
its the red dog charter...we do those pretty regularly. We take the Mine workers out there and back. Trips go pretty senior as far as the crews are concerned
Jkj777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 397 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1192 times:
Spirtofalaska From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 192 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1162 times:
its not random...its big busines up here...no one else wants to fly a plane up there...they pay us, we do it. its simple business
Osprey88 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 330 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1157 times:
Quoting Spirtofalaska (Reply 2): its the red dog charter...we do those pretty regularly. We take the Mine workers out there and back. Trips go pretty senior as far as the crews are concerned
So it'll be a 734 Combi then if I'm not mistaken?
"Reading departure signs in some big airports reminds me of the places I've been"
RyDawg82 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 818 posts, RR: 8 Reply 6, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1152 times:
The flight has been operated for years now. Generally the Wednesday flight operated in all passenger configuration, and Saturdays as a 3 or 5 pallet configuration. That of course was when the flight operated with -200 combis.
The Red Dog airport was the last gravel runway that AS flew to until it was repaved I believe in the summer of 2004 or 2005.
The flight number has been pretty consistent over the years.
Ryan
You can take the pup out of Alaska, but you can't take the Alaska out of the pup.