KGRB From United States of America, joined Sep 2010, 614 posts, RR: 1 Posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1947 times:
I saw signs for these two services at PHX (outside of T3) the other day, and to be honest, I have never heard of them in my life. I did a Google search, and found very little information. Based on the CO website, it looks like QuickPak may have something to do with shipping animals. Is that true? Any insight on this, A.netters?
ha763 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 3492 posts, RR: 6 Reply 1, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1895 times:
It is a cargo service product that can be tendered and picked up at the terminal.
nyc2theworld From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 653 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1888 times:
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12559 posts, RR: 64 Reply 3, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1807 times:
Many carriers have offered small parcel counter-to-counter services over the years. EA's service was called "Sprint" and AS's service is known as "Goldstreak."
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FURUREFA From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 762 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1743 times:
HPRamper From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3661 posts, RR: 8 Reply 5, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1545 times:
It's the highest priority cargo US carries, right after HR and AOG cargo. If space is indeed seriously limited, a passenger's luggage can and will be bumped to make room for PPK.
Maverick623 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 4744 posts, RR: 6 Reply 8, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 1 day ago) and read 1333 times:
US Airways Premier Pak and Continental's QuickPak, among others, are the premier "counter-to-counter" cargo shipments. They are guaranteed to arrive within a certain time frame or it's free, and can be accepted up until 1 hour prior to departure. Obviously, they also cost quite a bit of money. That being said:
Quoting HPRamper (Reply 5): If space is indeed seriously limited, a passenger's luggage can and will be bumped to make room for PPK.
No, it won't. In fact, passengers will be pulled before bags in a weight restriction. For the record, I've never had to pull anything off to make room for PPKs, as each piece is limited in size and weight.
T5towbar From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 421 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 23 hours ago) and read 1275 times:
Quoting Maverick623 (Reply 8): Quoting HPRamper (Reply 5):
If space is indeed seriously limited, a passenger's luggage can and will be bumped to make room for PPK.
No, it won't. In fact, passengers will be pulled before bags in a weight restriction. For the record, I've never had to pull anything off to make room for PPKs, as each piece is limited in size and weight.
Quoting BCEaglesCO757 (Reply 7):
AOG is pretty much MUST RIDE priority.
AOG is must-ride. In a bulk-out situation bags will get left behind. Again, I've never seen or heard of that happening in my 5 years on the ramp.
That has happened to me in a very rare instance. I've only had did it once. It was a very strange circumstance where the top two priority items had to go on the aircraft: A electric wheelchair which MUST go on. (Thats the number ONE priority); and about 200 hundred pounds of last minute AOG that had to get there. Of course it was going on a 800 so a few bags had to be pulled to make room on orders from the load planner. W and B wasn't the issue - space was. So about 7 bags were left behind - all locals and no first class or connectors. They went out on the next flight later on in the day.
Bags will get left behind if AOG/AOM has to go. AOG/AOM is number two on CO's load list. I think QuickPak is number four on the load priority list.
Getting back to the original poster, I wonder what will be the surviving name after the merger. We have QuickPak and UA has SPD (I think it's Small Package Delivery)
All airlines have these services which customers will pay if that item has to get there fast! UPS and FEDEX uses these services as well from the airlines if they have a shipment their planes can't get to that particular city fast. Then the package services deliver it to the customer's door.
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HPRamper From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3661 posts, RR: 8 Reply 10, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 19 hours ago) and read 1100 times:
Quoting Maverick623 (Reply 8): No, it won't. In fact, passengers will be pulled before bags in a weight restriction. For the record, I've never had to pull anything off to make room for PPKs, as each piece is limited in size and weight.
I can remember more than once we pulled bags...not specifically for PPK, but because of weight issues. Bags were always pulled for a single city destination, hopefully, for example, let's pull all eight bags going to SFO - and in this example we would simply walk over to the UA bagroom and say hey, mind taking these for us, they would fly the baggage and deliver it to our baggage service office at SFO and the pax would never know the difference. Often the bags would arrive hours earlier than their passengers. Let the weight issues be handled behind the scenes...people don't like to be told they can't go on a flight that is leaving with seats empty...
Maverick623 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 4744 posts, RR: 6 Reply 11, posted (2 years 1 month 1 week 18 hours ago) and read 1076 times:
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