Re: Expressjet relaunch as independent carrier

25 years as an airline pilot and I have never once called or heard anyone be called a ramp rat. Sounds incredibly derogatory and unnecessary. Equal time as you being an airline pilot... before that though, I was a Ramp Rat. We def called ourselves that and it was a term of pride amongst ourselves. ...

Re: Air Cargo (non Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2022

I Just as a back track from last year... as I had mentioned well before you and others discussed... former Condor bird (D-ABUL) that went to under ownership of Titan Leasing.. is in fact N664GT and now flying passengers yet again w/ Atlas Air. She retained her interior from Condor with small mods b...

Re: Embraer New Turboprop Aircraft News and Discussion Thread

By moving the engines aft I imagine this will greatly help with mitigating cabin noise and also aid "regional" airport ground handling by being able to have the aircraft sit lower to the ground. Hopefully it gets a nice robust set of trailing link gear too. I can't help but reflect that th...

Re: Embraer New Turboprop Aircraft News and Discussion Thread

LAXintl wrote:

At today's Embraer earnings event they had a few more details including images.

Re: Boeing 747-400 Passenger Fleet Tracking/Retirements Thread - 2020

Supposedly 3 ex-Virgin Atlantic birds have been purchased by Atlas Air to expand the 747 Pax charter fleet (primarily for AMC lift)... tails are G-VROM, G-VROS, and G-VROY

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2020

(Nerd Alert: The all-white ones at Atlas are: N1709A, N1399A, N1511A and N1619A. The latter two are powered by PW engines; the rest of the Amazon 767-300 fleet is GE. The "A"-suffixed 763s are FADEC, the "AZ" ones are not.) Minor, however, the A suffixed and AZ suffixed when it ...

Re: Last ERJ - Embraer Regional Jet Delivered: a end of an era and the history behind it !

Why do pilots not like them? Their impressive safety record (no losses in the North America) is downright amazing considering the age and experience of her pilots. Not sure on the source on that... but from my experience almost every single pilot I know who has flown the ERJ has loved it; myself in...

Re: DL 8955, military charter or medical relief flight?

Considering the airports involved, that sure looks like a military charter to me, although why use ELP when BIggs AAF is just a few miles away (from ELP)? Because currently the runway at Biggs AAF is under renovation/rehabilitation. For a while it was only the last 4000' but supposedly now it's the...

Re: 5Y6947 strange diversion

Giant 6947, operated by N1997A, was scheduled to fly BWI-TPA this morning. It took off and flew down to Florida, did a 360 a little west of JAX, descended to FL260, then turned around and headed back up to BWI. What sort of situation could possible warrant this sort of diversion? https://www.flight...

Re: Boeing examines GEnX powered 767

Is it really expanding? The stuff we're seeing now going into the fleet is tapering off and is the result of decisions made two years ago or more. AMZN's current trend is to spend big on building more warehouses for same-day and next-day delivery to avoid reliance on air. It's expanding like crazy....

Re: Boeing examines GEnX powered 767

If a freighter role and some sort of pax role earns more than it costs, and does not cannibalize or hamper 797 development.. than it is a profitable asset investment. The bottom line. Indeed. Hopefully Boeing doesn't release a reengined 767 in lieu of the 797. To me, If there is a short term cannib...

Re: Boeing examines GEnX powered 767

Not sure if in the last 9 pages its been really pointed out or thought of.. but there is one huge advantage of the 764(neo/max) treatment when it comes to express parcel operators vs going to an A330p2f or 777F/P2F aircraft -- it allows a relatively large increase of volume capacity while wingspan c...

Re: AA 767-300

That would require the 787F to exist. The lead time on making that change and getting it approved by the feds would be such that it wouldn't be tied to AA's 767's going to ATSG for Amazon.

Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

How about AA codeshares with SKY in Chile and Peru? Not directed towards you, but in general: why this obsession of codeshares? Does it make any passenger more satisfied or happy if the flight you are on has an AA flight number, even though everything else about it is SKY Airline? (Apart from the c...

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2019

N663GT should be delivered sometime soon to Atlas after cargo conversion. Ex NEO’s originally built for Continental. Yeah, I keep looking for it to get moving towards the US. It's moving around TPE, which is a clue that it's almost done. Of course, the BCF comes from overseas fully-painted, so 663G...

Re: American Airlines MD-80 Retirement Discussion Thread

It's disappointing that DFW isn't the final destination. What a slap in the face to AA employees. DFW is the headquarters of AA. I can see where you're coming from however, to me, I think it's more fitting that DFW will have the honor of being the Super 80's final take off, seeing her launch into t...

Re: Amazon Fleet Discussion - 2019

Pretty good looking! Personally, I think it's ugly as can be... and I honestly don't understand why, if they're revising the livery... they didn't go all the way and adopt the official rebrand as Amazon Air. I would love to hear the rationale for using/continuing the "Prime Air" name when...

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

Feith's statements are sensationalist and alarmist at best. He isn't privy to the information in the investigation related to this accident. He can only speculate like anyone else can on this forum. There are others in this forum who have more valuable knowledge and more relevant experience than tha...

Re: SkyWest to sell ExpressJet

In the end this is probably better for both sides. The animosity and bad blood between the two sides of SkyWest Inc. has gone on for way too long. SkyWest can refocus on one airline and ExpressJet can hopefully have a good future with United. Sometimes I wonder how different history of the regional...

Re: SkyWest to sell ExpressJet

In the end this is probably better for both sides. The animosity and bad blood between the two sides of SkyWest Inc. has gone on for way too long. SkyWest can refocus on one airline and ExpressJet can hopefully have a good future with United. Sometimes I wonder how different history of the regional...

Re: SkyWest to sell ExpressJet

LOL “Expressjet has been a boat anchor.” Sorry, but Skywest is the one who negotiated their contracts, set their SOP’s, and had the power to manage every detail of their operations. If Expressjet wasn’t performing, that’s on Skywest. Actually, most of EV's contracts were negotiated prior to OO buyi...

Re: Airbus and Boeing meet Qantas Project Sunrise challenge, RFP to be completed by end of 2019

Qantas does not need a 500 seat aircraft on SYD-DFW, the average load for this year has been 305 (that is from January to the end of May) On the QF 380 - seating capacity is right around 484 right? Seems an interesting issue then on how to "fix this route" if you wanted to drop to daily t...

Re: Amazon Fleet Growth - 2018

N1217A has been namend CustomAir Obsession Oh, Lord. They're making my point. Wouldn't "Prime" have been a better word to use? a play on "customer obsession"... but that said.. other note, Amazon last year officially doesn't refer to the air freight side as PrimeAir.. it's Amazo...

Re: Former Etihad A330-200F

Someone83 wrote:

Anyone know where they will be based or operate?

Re: Amazon Fleet Growth - 2018

I find the job page for Amazon Air to be intriguing... 2 Positions now for LUX.
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/airplanes

As for ONT; while ONT is not an official Amazon hub, the growth is large enough that Atlas officially opened ONT Pilot base August 1st.

Re: A330-800 status

Both UPS and FedEx have selected the 767-300F for their current and future A300-600RF replacements. This exact thing and the fact that the 767F line is so full... wonder if there would be a great spot to market an A330F at the "reasonable" cheap to DHL/Amazon... on the pax side... I'm sur...

Re: Air Niugini Dash8 burned by protestors

crownvic wrote:

For such a tropical location how come everyone in the picture is dressed for winter?? As for the toilet roll maybe he was going to buff it out..

Re: What Is The Real Difference Among Full Service, LCC and ULCC Carriers?

Just to point this out but, technically speaking.. the term Low-Cost Carrier originated with nothing based about service levels or fares... it was about the Business Model being a lower operating cost structure vs the legacy carriers.... achieved usually by higher aircraft utilization etc... Granted...

Re: Amazon Fleet Growth - 2018

N1013A arrived in CVG in full Prime Air livery. Yep, the BCFs arrive painted. I had thought that 1013A would be going into service for Amazon. So the fact that it's in the livery confirms that; thanks KCVGSpotter! I'm not clear on the reason that Atlas numbers some of its all-white non-Amazon 767-3...

Re: Dallas says it has a plan to resolve Southwest-Delta fight for Love Field gates

Not sure why their is even an expansion argument here... The major issue with ever expanding from the 20 gates at Love is that it was a cornerstone requirement of the 5 party agreement which ended the Wright Amendment. Southwest was one of the 5 parties who signed the document forever limiting their...

Re: Deadheading Pilots

Perhaps my answer was too simple. Yes, there's a difference between CASS and KCM and you're right that KCM uses CASS. My point was that ALPA spent millions making the KCM concept acceptable to the FAA and TSA, getting it tested and getting it implemented. IOW, KCM isn't free as it was paid for (in ...

Re: Deadheading Pilots

IIRC, ALPA put several million dollars into the KCM program - that money came from dues. So it's not truly free at least to the ALPA member crews. Don't confuse KCM with CASS.... CASS has been around a long long time... KCM (not so much)... KCM uses CASS... CASS doesn't use a thing from KCM. ;) CAS...

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

The longest leg I've operated in the 767 was a ferry flight from TLV straight to MEM... 15+ hours in flight. The 1500 mile oceanic portion was a relatively small part of that total flight. We didn't coast out in Shanwick until we were past the halfway point in the flight, and when we coasted in ove...

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

I’ve flown eight times nonstop from NYC to Honolulu. All on HA 330s. I just happen to like HA. The 330 was just a fringe benefit — the widebody has a perceived spaciousness, despite the same crappy seats, than that of a 320/737. But they’re all designed for the same mission, with the same ETOPS req...

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

...Warm fuzzy level...I stand by my feelings and my choices. Fortunately the people who design aircraft and the people who set certification standards and approve them understand and use science, engineering, and statistics. And they don't make decisions based on warmth, fuzziness, and feelings. Yu...

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

OK, but is more redundancies demonstrably safer? It seems to me that one could argue that manual reversion is better than a few more pumps. Pretty much any pilot would always pick to have an extra redundancy over less... why would you not? more important is HOW the redundancy is accomplished... and...

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

Look, again, the 737 is a fine airframe. I'm just saying, don't jump down PinnacleKid's throat when he says the 767 has more redundancies. It clearly does. Thank you so much! To the critics: I simply stated exactly my knowledge base and my inferences based upon those as a REAL LIFE professional act...

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

But the fact that the ERJ is less redundant than the 767 isn't relevant to this discussion unless Embraer suddenly decides to seek ETOPS certification for it . . . Correct... but I speculate that in a lot of ways that design philosophy to the needs for redundancy level is different in a 737 vs a 75...

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

What redundancies do the 75/76 have that, say, a 321NEO lacks? I would have to talk to a 737 or A320 typed guy and compare... but I do know the ones I'm typed in... where it comes down to it is not that it has redundancy and another doesn't... its more the manner in which redundancies are handled.....

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

How is any of what you cited different on a 757 or widebody twin from on a 737 or 320? While the larger aircraft have more range, carriers don’t fill up the tanks just for the sake of helping passengers sleep better at night. To the extent that uncontained engine failures are some sort of systemic ...

Re: Amazon Fleet Growth - 2018

I wonder/speculate with the sudden influx of all white aircraft if it's possibly setting up for an eventual match to the official Amazon rebranding as Prime Air being drone based and Amazon Air being aircraft operations.

Re: Flying 2000 miles over open water in twins powered by CFM56-7

What you have to ask yourself is how long this type of engine has been in service and how much use in total such as hours have been put on it. Just because one operator has had some trouble for whatever reason doesn’t mean the engine is suddenly unsafe if everyone else’s is fine still. No, but give...

Re: 767 Fleet/Subfleet Activity (2018)

Besides the Passenger birds being converted into freighters for Atlas (Amazon Air)... expect some retiring Passenger birds to get repainted and continue as passenger aircraft for the 767-300 Atlas Air passenger ops (charters and AMC)... the following tails have all been registered with the FAA: N662...

Re: Spirit Airlines Closes In on a New Pilot Contract & What It Means for Investors

Pay is such a small small thing that isn't even what it seems when it comes to pilot contracts... it also gets into HOW that pay level is paid out... soft time, daily rigs, etc... the work rules are usually the MOST important part of a contract.. Spirit has under current contract some of the lowest ...

Re: Rumor: LH might introduce a new/revised livery in 2018

As for QF - as far as I know, they didn't change anything other than the font on the fuselage, correct? Which was a very minimal change, at that. No, they also changed/stylized the Roo and added silver/grey to the livery subtly http://australianaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/QF-tails-li...

Re: OneJet Looking to Start BUF-ALB

Always strange for me to see birds I've flown finding homes with new carriers....

I have 13 flights and just over 20 hrs in her; even flew her into Mexico twice... (all back when she was branded as Continental Express)

Re: Boeing may consider restarting 767 pax model production

So they are going to insist on offering yesterday's airplane tomorrow. Why? Because it appears that customers are insisting to buy scores of them? Scores? Really? Actually the 767 is in VERY high demand.. this may be "airliners.net" and clearly everyone here is into airliners... but they ...

Re: Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion

I absolutely hate it. Quite possibly the worst website redesign I've seen in a long time. It's advertisement heavy... the forums are horrible... nothing about this is clean. I'll probably use this site a TON less than before. Oh well... so sad.

RE: AA Grey "tri-bar" Upholstery In Main Cabin

Big question now is... who else flies AA a LOT and did back then.. to remember the old bulkheads on the 727's?! The cloud motif.. beiges and blues!

RE: AA Grey "tri-bar" Upholstery In Main Cabin

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