LAXintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22021 posts, RR: 51 Reply 3, posted (5 months 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 12438 times:
Not sure what the circumstances were, but yes there was a 744 flight in FRU today that returned to blocks and subsequently was rescheduled with almost 24hours delay.
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CALPSAFltSkeds From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 2199 posts, RR: 8 Reply 6, posted (5 months 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 12111 times:
It is N194UA and was operating as 1886/1Dec FRU-HHN (Franklfurt Hahn). United.com shows it returned to the gate at FRU 2.5 hours after push.
Flight 1886 now sked FRU-HHN a day late 12/2, then shows sked HHN-GTB.
GTB -Genting, Malaysia - a small area near Kuala Lumpur and I can't find the airport on Google Earth and World Airport Codes show it on another island, but there is no airport at the GPS coordianates. Think that's a typo?
FreshSide3 From United States of America, joined Nov 2012, 204 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (5 months 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 12086 times:
There are occasionally military charters to the 'stans on UA, from time to time. So FRU(Biskek) would make sense.
aviateur From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1344 posts, RR: 12 Reply 9, posted (5 months 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 11836 times:
Quoting FreshSide3 (Reply 7): There are occasionally military charters to the 'stans on UA, from time to time. So FRU(Biskek) would make sense.
Indeed. Delta does semi-regular military charters to Bishkek (FRU) as well.
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thrufru From Marshall Islands, joined Feb 2009, 188 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (5 months 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 7660 times:
Hmm, I'm a bit surprised at this. While the runway is pretty rough, the taxiways are plenty wide and the markings are fine. I've often been on the ramp in FRU, and have envied UA, DL, and all the other big boys. They've got the range for non-stop back to Europe, whereas we have to stop in TBS if we're full. The tech stop is somewhat softened, though, by the ground handler always giving us a case of Georgian wine.
Boeing757/767 From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 2264 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (5 months 2 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 2605 times:
Atlas Air is a big mover of troops to FRU. UA and DL probably supplement that lift from time to time.
CALPSAFltSkeds From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 2199 posts, RR: 8 Reply 14, posted (5 months 2 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 936 times:
UA 1886 did operate FRU-HHN-GTB 24 hours late without incident after departing FRU. I don't know if we'll find out exactly what happened, but my guess is after the aircraft came back to the gate in FRU, the crew was timed out for the day, thus the 24 hour delay.
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