Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

The cargo market isn't slowing; it has stabilized for the moment, per the recent reports from the big integrators. World events could always affect this, of course. Other than to China, belly cargo is also recovering.

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

The biggest concern is that on some aircraft, the 756 fleet for example, allow for Channel 9 to broadcast everything on the interphone, not just ATC communication. So when the flight attendants are talking to each other or to the cockpit, all of that makes its way to Channel 9 if the observer panel...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

The biggest concern is that on some aircraft, the 756 fleet for example, allow for Channel 9 to broadcast everything on the interphone, not just ATC communication. So when the flight attendants are talking to each other or to the cockpit, all of that makes its way to Channel 9 if the observer panel...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

DEN-LAS is also quite a strange routing for United to send a 752 on, especially now when TATL season is ramping up. Not really, UA has had a scheduled 752 for some time and is scheduled daily it looks like at 7:45 DEN-LAS Absolutely. The 757's range isn't its only virtue. DEN is high, LAS is hot, a...

Re: Spirit to close ACY base, open new Northeast Base

The irony of AIA was the fact that they were truly what Spirit wasn't, during that period. Seeing all those Hawaiian MD-80s (that were leased to AIA) at first in ACY, was quite a treat! That airline just expanded too quickly. They should have never moved to PHL, but that is history. Spirit would ra...

Re: Spirit to close ACY base, open new Northeast Base

American International did well at ACY. Used to fly them to Chicago. Then they moved to PHL and US annihilated them, as it did to Midway a few years later.

Re: iAero Group files bankruptcy

Actually, there's a charter broker involved with these flights. Of course. IIRC, it's not a captive entity to the NCAA but I think it's one they have used for a very long time. For accuracy, I should have said "the NCAA's exclusive broker was able to entice allegiant into sending an A320...&qu...

Re: iAero Group files bankruptcy

I was correct...Cross Country on Allegiant departing after 1 am. Does not sound fun... Well, you said "an RJ" and an A320 isn't an RJ. And you said fuel stop, and it was nonstop. But whatever. As to "fun", DL has 30" pitch in its A320s (31" in some places if you're luc...

Re: iAero Group files bankruptcy

Runway28L wrote:

Meanwhile, the Penguins have moved from iAero to Delta.
DL8960 is scheduled to operate PIT-YYZ this afternoon. Pens play the Leafs in Toronto tomorrow night.

Re: iAero Group files bankruptcy

The local news here reported on UCONN"s lengthy flight delays to Phoenix and I heard mention of a delay in the A/C arriving from Kansas City (made me think Eastern). Last I heard they had to charter an RJ that was required to make a fuel stop. It was an Eastern 763 that went tech and then the ...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

N351CM CAM B763 BDSF routed ILN-GUS this morning for paint. Good-bye "Strat Air" colors. cheers! Those colors now grace N567NC. Yep. Northern Air Cargo (owns StratAir) moved to handle their fleet differently. This one is ex-Hawaiian, ex-Azur, etc. PW 4056 engines. BCF. Amerijet disliked t...

Re: Southwest nearly hits LGA tower

[set RANT=ON] The media hysteria is deadly. More than 100 people die in auto accidents every day the USA. Almost 40,000 per year. Driving is FAR more dangerous than flying. The average person has about a 1-in-10,000 chance of dying in an auto accident every year. When the media obsess over highly-u...

Re: Fate of Condor 757-300s?

bfitzflyer wrote:

usxguy wrote:

Weren't Condor, ATA, and Continental the original airlines to order the 757-300?

And Northwest

Re: Southwest nearly hits LGA tower

Twenty-five years on this site, and you think I’m given to sensationalism? It wasn't about you personally; I really didn't read much of anything about the incident, because the other article I did read in a similar time frame was about how an American flight returned to the gate after pulling away ...

Re: Southwest nearly hits LGA tower

That sounds more like a cover up. As AirKevin mentioned, you pull the breaker to preserve the data. This is especially true re the CVR, because it only holds 2 hours of data (up from 30 minutes years ago). Since 2018, there has been a proposed reg our there that would increase the time to 25 hours ...

Re: Southwest nearly hits LGA tower

Can a mod change the title, southwest didn’t almost hit the tower, it flew 800 feet over the tower doing a go around. It did the go around because the Tower instructed it to. If it hadn't, it would have been a Very Bad Day. And that only happened because the controller saw the plane headed for the ...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

MajMattMason wrote:

351CM has been in conformity/bridge work at ATI. So it might be coming out in ATI livery or just as a white tail.

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

stretch8 wrote:

N351CM CAM B763 BDSF routed ILN-GUS this morning for paint. Good-bye "Strat Air" colors. cheers!

Re: WN147 nearly hits LGA tower

BIG DEVELOPMENT: Juan Browne has an excellent video here. This incident is a lot worse than I, at least, thought it was. (I thought it was all media drama.) Juan's video really got my attention, because he is always professional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQE38L81DI And, as usual, he has some...

Re: 2024 NCAA Basketball Tournament Charters (Men's and Women's)

NCAA continues to mix experienced, quality charter operators (Allegiant, Sun Country) with pretty-good operators (Breeze, Avelo) with crap operators (IMHO Eastern, iAero, etc.). Sooner or later that's gonna bite them on more than just a delay.

Re: Fate of Condor 757-300s?

I would be surprised to see UA take such old aircraft. Is this speculation/rumor due to the Max delays? This all came up because somebody asked the question if you could snap your fingers and have a manufacturer deliver 20 brand new copies tomorrow of any discontinued model, and you can't split the...

Re: UPS wins USPS primary air cargo contract

We had also asked vendors that include shipping to stop sending our items USPS, but that may change now that UPS has their contract. From where I'm standing this is definately an upgrade. Some of the "USPS" unreliability comes when a vendor is using USPS for the final mile, but another se...

Re: UPS wins USPS primary air cargo contract

The small number of Ryan 727 USPS aircraft were painted in USPS colors. 2421825,0814673 And the former Purolator DC-9-10s were painted in USPS colors. The actual contractor before FedEx was Emery Worldwide, which used Ryan as the direct air carrier. Didn't Evergreen have that contract at some point...

Re: UPS wins USPS primary air cargo contract

This will have a huge impact on the dayside flight operations. About half the freight that moves in the morning out of the markets is Priority Mail (PML). In some markets, PML is the only freight they move by air. In Seattle for example, PML supplies the entire build for a 767, bellies included, pl...

Re: UPS wins USPS primary air cargo contract

Another issue with USPS mail on passenger aircraft was the 15 minute drop requirement. If the USMAIL wasn’t in their “box” 15 minutes after the plane blocked in, they often assessed a penalty, that IIRC, was $10,000 per occurrence. One penalty could erase all the revenue for a month in small statio...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

Rock on, CALTECH!!! Absolutely!

Re: AF "bus" gates at CDG - need more info

A couple of weeks ago on DL262, we arrived at CDG and were taken by bus to a place near passport control in Terminal 2E. Escalators were all off and we had to go down and up a bunch of stairs and outside in the drizzle with all our junk. It was all a little seedy, but I think we avoided a whole bunc...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2024

Odd question, are there 737-900ERs available that Delta could (and would) buy another batch? Their utilization is pretty high (8 to just over 9 hours per day. With DL's high revenue, lower utilization model, I see a need for more new aircraft (A321NEOs, eventually -10 MAX), but more for cheap *larg...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

764ER But you left off the 753, which I think DL or UA should order 20 of tomorrow if they could. Condor is retiring their's...any takers? Maybe a little late in the game for a UA or DL to refurb 'em and bring 'em on. But there are 15 of them total, so... I don't buy that the A321 is even close to ...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

N661UA wrote:

Re: New mexican military managed airline called Mexicana de Aviación announces its first destinations..

Just in: Mexicana has been sued by SAT Aero Holdings for $841 million due to multiple breaches of contract. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/mexicos-state-owned-airline-faces-841-million-lawsuit-contract-dispute-2024-03-28/ https://www.forbes.com.mx/demandan-a-mexicana-de...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

Just down the road Chennault spent millions creating an air cargo facility, which has not driven the business like they had hoped. BTR is not gonna be any different. A lot of these airport boards are dreamers who aren't properly focused on what realistically can be. Chennault, ONE THOUSAND PERCENT ...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

N775AX and N795AX sold to First Class Air Support last week. So long. Grrrr, somehow I erased everything I was writing. Bottom line, 795AX was within about 450 cycles of the LOV about 10 days before it was parked in ILN on 10/22/22, so it's nice it's going to be an organ donor. LN116, delivered to ...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

764ER
But you left off the 753, which I think DL or UA should order 20 of tomorrow if they could.

Re: Amazon Fleet News and Discussion - 2024

Then that astounding Kentucky aviation center for Amazon. About which we now hear about nothing in the media, nor even much on this thread. So what happened, and what is the current strategy? Several years ago, someone quoted an Amazon executive who more or less said that every air shipped package ...

Re: Amazon Fleet News and Discussion - 2024

Sorry if this sounds ignorant, but at Manchester, NH (MHT) there are a couple of daily 763s that operate to/from AFW and CVG. But they’re always Atlas, not ATI. Is it a contractual issue that makes this so? Amazon figured out that having one provider at each outstation made things much simpler for ...

Re: Amazon Fleet News and Discussion - 2024

Well, it looks like last 767 that Amazon converted itself is finally going to enter into service. N643AZ completed conversion and ran a test in MEX on 3/24, and is set to fly today (3/27/24) from MEX to LRD to ILN. When I say "converted itself", I mean purchased itself and undertook to co...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

N643AZ, the last of the Amazon-owned-and-self-converted ex-DL 767-300s, is done with conversion and should be on its way from MEX to ILN today (3/27/24). More info on the Amazon Fleet thread, which is sadly a bit of a ghost-town these days...

Re: Amazon Fleet News and Discussion - 2024

Well, it looks like last 767 that Amazon converted itself is finally going to enter into service. N643AZ completed conversion and ran a test in MEX on 3/24, and is set to fly today (3/27/24) from MEX to LRD to ILN. When I say "converted itself", I mean purchased itself and undertook to con...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

Not cycles, hours. Several ships in DL’s 171-185 range are over or approaching 140k hours. The limit is 150k. That's news to me. My impression was that the seven six had only a cycle and not an hour limit. I of course could be wrong. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

Delta, as an example, is pushing some of its 767-300ER fleet built in the early 1990s right up to the limit before retiring them. This is fascinating. Which ships are this close? Because it has only been in the last couple of years that the original Delta 767s approached their LOV, meaning 767-200s...

Re: United, FAA steps up oversight.

2) The horrific decision by the CEO and management the morning after the MAX 9 Alaska incident. To be clear, the Alaska door blow-out incident happened during the evening on Jan 5th. On the morning of Jan 6th, United executives woke up, had their coffees, and decided ah, no big deal, let’s send our...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

Amazon has now numbers for flights through the Hub and flights not through the hub. 3 is not a ferry flight.

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

Aviator Daily News 22MAR2024 Eastern Airlines (US) does not foresee continuing to provide CMI services for DHL Express (Germany) after it acquires the entire B737 fleet of iAero Airways (US) as part of iAero’s bankruptcy proceedings. Of course they won't. It requires reliability. Maybe an opening f...

Re: United, FAA steps up oversight.

The other day there was a report in the San Francisco paper that a United aircraft returned to the gate because of an engine light while taxiing out to the runway. Seriously. And some of you think the reporting is not overblown?

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

Something to keep an eye on... N647GT, Atlas Air 767-300BDSF, that was flying for Polar is currently in SFB getting a new life with a carrier. Sounds like Atlas is leasing it out, but I have no word on who's getting it. Am eager to see where she's going. And it looks like N642GT ended DHL flying at...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

UK-67010 MyFreighter B763 BCF currently enroute ILN-OSR, a lease delivery - their 3rd CAM bird. cheers! CAM is still leasing planes, even in a slower market. Good for them. Also, I'm wondering how the SPAH venture with GA Telesis is going there at ILN. Looks like it recently inducted its first few ...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2024

This thread keeps track of the IFC installs, so I think it appropriate to ask here: what's the big deal with Viasat? I yesterday got off of a viasat-equipped A330 coming from Paris to JFK, and the service was no better than the formerly-Gogo A330 on which I flew over. And the going over was free fro...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

And 21Air takes N298CM, 3/19/24. Former ANA bird, LN 996 per planespotters.net. Del November 2010. So relatively young, as these things go. I didn't dig deep enough to see if it was sold to DHL by CAM or just long-term leased to them for operation by 21Air. CAM leased to DHL 3/13/24, transferred to...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

And the Chaddick Institute nitwits are out with another not-very-insightful article about developments at Amazon. Since they have routinely misstated how many planes fly for Amazon, and made other mistakes about how the operation runs, take anything they say with a grain of salt.