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...
Jump to postFor FEDEX to walk away it must have been low margin business. UPS will no doubt move most of the Priority on the ground where they have a more robust system and lower costs. So it's worth it for UPS. I am curious how this will affect the FEDEX day flights that carry a lot of this USPS freight. I've...
Jump to postDoes Fedex or UPS have cargo operations at BTR? Haven't been able to find out. I did locate a news story that indicates a plan for a new cargo building there: Courtesy: WBRZ-TV Baton Rouge Airport plans expansion with new air cargo facilities https://www.wbrz.com/news/baton-rouge-airport-plans-expa...
Jump to postBaltimore bridge crash - an opportunity for air cargo companies ? Lots of supply chain disruption according to news on the accident. From what little I can find online, Baltimore specialized in bulk cargo and roll-on/roll-off, so Euro-built vehicles. While they definitely had containerized cargo as...
Jump to postLooks like SEA's 2024 peak season is starting to wake up a bit. I noticed Aer Lingus restarted DUB-SEA. On Flightradar24, I noticed two TK aircraft coming to SEA today...an A350 and a 787 right behind it. FI upgraded their equipment to mainly 757-200's from 737-8's, with an occasional 763 thrown in...
Jump to postAnd more on the FedEx side of things: An MBA suggests this One Neat Trick to make sure FX rolls in the money like Scrooge McDuck - Dump USPS flying and get rid of the daytime flights. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-fedex-could-win-by-losing-its-postal-service-business I'm not 100% convinced....
Jump to postLost in the attention of MD11 retirements is the fact that FedEx is retiring ("parking") 757s just as fast as the MD11s. N787FD is scheduled to depart for VCV on Thursday, and N775FD next Monday. Should put FX at about 93 active 757s, down from something like 115ish a few years ago.
Jump to postShe too appears to be just about 2 years out from her last HMV in 3/2022. This seems to be a clear sign they are getting parked in the order they come due for mx. As of a year ago, just 66k hours and 17k cycles. 623 was the last MD.-11 built for Fedex. With so many older MD-11s in the fleet, some e...
Jump to postMixed feeling about our Washington economy which is seeing SeaTac having more and more record days, months, and maybe years. It is a kind of hell to get through lines, securities, and must be too for gate management. Our governor, this is not a criticism of him, accepted the dismantling of the comm...
Jump to postSpacepope wrote:FedEx has sent N610FE to the desert in VCV. Based on SDR entries, she was exactly 2 years out from her last heavy check.
A year ago she had about 91000 hours and 22000 cycles.
In other news: FedEx parked 752F at VCV N940FD straight from El Paso. Hopefully just for some work. Icelandair seems to have leased 763F TF-ISH (Heh. T FISH!) to Uzbek operator Fly Khiva. It'll be interesting to see what kind of routes this one goes on, but I have my guesses. FX is trying to shed a...
Jump to postWhat people aren't focusing on is that the daytime complexes give FedEx something of an ability to at least partially-recover a service deficiency. If you only have one flight a day, recovery is a different story. So there's a network-reliability benefit to having those flights. What's interesting ...
Jump to postInteresting article today in the WSJ about FedEx losing USMail business, because USPS is sending much more First Class and package service by ground line haul. It has fallen off a cliff, so the daytime flying that sustained certain routes at 2x daily is now teeny and throws off their calculations o...
Jump to postFedEx has sent MD-11F N586FE to VCV for retirement. A her last SDR from a little under a month ago, she had around 96k hours and 23k cycles. Former AA, GE engines. https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb.main?LC=nav4&page=4 6259523 N613FE is going today, ONT-VCV as flight 1438. That makes three ...
Jump to postIADCA wrote:For those who are interested, the aircraft is still on the FX ramp at CHA but the titles have now been painted over.
Why so few MD’s going to retirement? FDX and UPS have said in earlier earnings calls they were going to retire triple the number than what they have done in reality. Because we are 4 weeks out from peak. Expect a few resurrections soon. Retirements come with the new year Word is another bunch will ...
Jump to postIt is now showing parked at one of the FX gates.
Jump to post...Also, AS and AA are in different terminals at PHX. You have to leave security, take the train and re-enter security. That could be one reason why there are no connections through PHX from AS flights... ah ****! I am going ABQ/PHX/PAE in November - booked thru Alaska. This security thing really s...
Jump to postLooks like FedEx has finally reached the end of its 777F order.
Jump to postMay I ask how container handling is solved? I read another thread /forum recently where they discussed 3 workers would be required by FedEx to operate a container loader near an aircraft? And that loaders for the required height were not available everywhere yet? FedEx has to acquire new loaders sp...
Jump to postMay I ask how container handling is solved? I read another thread /forum recently where they discussed 3 workers would be required by FedEx to operate a container loader near an aircraft? And that loaders for the required height were not available everywhere yet? FedEx has to acquire new loaders sp...
Jump to postFedex to shut down 29 more aircraft as demand shrinks https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-to-shut-down-29-more-aircraft-as-demand-shrinks "FedEx Express retired 18 aircraft in the just-completed fiscal year, including 12 MD-11s, four Boeing 757-200s and two Airbus A300-600s. FedEx wrote of...
Jump to postAren't they going to have layoffs of flight crews with these cutbacks? Or just a hiring freeze? How does this impact the ongoing contract negotiations if the company intends to move more freight by land? From what flight crews have been saying, 10-15% of the pilot group is waiting for the new contr...
Jump to postVCVSpotter wrote:The final FedEx MD-11F due into VCV in 2Q23 filed MEM-VCV 10:15AM - 11:42AM as FX9045 tomorrow, May 26, for retirement.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fx9045
That’s the plan. New terminal where the Doug Fox lot is to open by 2027. Now that’s probably been pushed back by the modifications that need to be made at A. I’d be surprised if it opened by the end of the decade. I'd put money on a zero percent chance of it happening even by the end of the decade....
Jump to postSo SEA is just going to continue to get more and more packed. I don’t think anything other than a greenfield to outright replace SEA would work. At this point, even if every airline that isn’t AS or DL transfers their ops to another location SeaTac would still be packed. WN, B6, NK, F9, HA, SY, and...
Jump to postSo SEA is just going to continue to get more and more packed. I don’t think anything other than a greenfield to outright replace SEA would work. At this point, even if every airline that isn’t AS or DL transfers their ops to another location SeaTac would still be packed. WN, B6, NK, F9, HA, SY, and...
Jump to postI think the South Sound needs a new commercial airport than any of the other surrounding regions. I don't think there is a need for another commercial airport close to SEA. If anything, BFI would be the better option than RNT. Seattle proper is the heavy dividing line for travel time. Nobody wants ...
Jump to postPlans for a new regional airport to support SEA are now dead: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/wa-lawmakers-kick-hunt-for-major-airport-site-far-into-the-future/ Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed into law a bill winding down a state commission that produced the shortlist of pot...
Jump to postLast month, ch-aviation reported that Cargo Three was going to launch MD-10F operations during the current quarter. If so, this would likely be the operating carrier for Transcarga. As per the CH-Aviation Article: Cargo Three (C3, Panamá City Tocumen International) plans to debut the operations of ...
Jump to postI have no idea if this has been brought up before or if they've made the forum search feature usable yet (haha) but does anyone else absolutely HATE the new marketing the Port of Seattle is doing at SeaTac calling it "SEA Airport?"l Yeah, it’s dumb, but I don’t think it’s really having mu...
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:I can see periodic cleaning and health monitoring, but payments to residents?.
Questions from the cheap seats: a) I remember watching the end of the Mad Dogs, it seemed amazing how they held on but suddenly a line crossed where costs were above their worth - and a bunch disappeared almost overnight. Engine green time seemed to be the key. Where are the MD-11, A-306, and 757 t...
Jump to postSomeone here likely knows specifics. The fact that FX has operations at every Part 139 airport in the L.A. Basin & environs (except, recently, LGB) is indicative of the volumes FX is moving to & through the region. Probably impractical to move much of the LAX volume to ONT. I don't know if ...
Jump to postIn terms of late packages, is anyone familiar with how far a drive it is from ONT to the most densely populated parts of Los Angeles? I would think being so close to the west side and downtown would be a competitive advantage at LAX. How far ONT is from the most densely populated parts of LA really...
Jump to posthttps://aviationweek.com/air-transport/airlines-lessors/fedex-ups-call-time-md-11-fleets In this AvWeek article about MD-11 retirements by FedEx (and UPS) states that they only have 40 in active service, so there must be a dozen parked already awaiting their fates and 6 have already been retired. B...
Jump to postFedEx has already been retiring MD-11s since the first of the year. So far in 2023 six have been retired so far, which has been an average of 2 retirements per month. I would imagine this rate will speed up if they plan to park the entire 52 remaining in their active fleet by the end of the year. W...
Jump to postIn re: the way delay coding works....as there's a lot of frustration with it among people not in the industry. There's a lot of "the weather wasn't that bad" ad nauseum but the hub-spoke system is why the effects are exacerbated. Flights are planned to arrive during a hub bank which corres...
Jump to postThere's cargo and there's express. FedEx wants to fly express, because it generates a higher rate than cargo. Express usually bulks out before it weights out. So the weight-lifting ability of the MD11 is less important, other than its ability to lift a lot of fuel which it will then burn if it has ...
Jump to postAny update? I know N306FE flew to VCV today (Feb. 22, 2023), so it doesn’t look like it’s going to NQA. They aren't saying much, if at all, internally on the subject. It may just be temp storage. Any update? Nothing. The remaining two are sitting in MEM with no flights in the plan as of now. VCV sh...
Jump to postwolf353 wrote:Any update? I know N306FE flew to VCV today (Feb. 22, 2023), so it doesn’t look like it’s going to NQA.
UPS757Pilot wrote:thedreamthejohn wrote:2 757s heading to VCV in the next week or so for long term storage, NOT retirement
You mean FedEx?
From a poster in the New England aviation thread (not me): BTV airport management, in the minutes of their commission meeting, stated that they are seeking to expand the cargo ramp at BTV to accommodate “a large cargo carrier that wants to come to Burlington Airport”. They also stated that the new ...
Jump to postVCVSpotter wrote:
FedEx MD-11F N604FE filed MEM-VCV but never ferried. Tomorrow there's a FedEx MD-11F filed from DEN as FX9030, likely will be N604FE.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n604fe
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fx9030
The FedEx dash to park planes continues. 757F N933FD is headed to VCV today. Another MD-11F, N604FE also headed that way on 02/01. Should be showing up soon on the SoCal Boneyard thread. Speaking of FedEX, it looks like their schedule cuts went into effect today. Up until last week, there was a sec...
Jump to postThe FedEx dash to park planes continues. 757F N933FD is headed to VCV today. Another MD-11F, N604FE also headed that way on 02/01. Should be showing up soon on the SoCal Boneyard thread.
Jump to postFormer Ramper, Brasilias, CRJ’s, EMB 170 and United 320’s. I have a question on the 2 minute cool down. For safety sake could it have stopped at the end of the lead in line to the gate, paused the 2 minutes, and then just enough power to pull in to the gate or would that completely negate the cool ...
Jump to postwedgetail737 wrote:IMO, any airport on the east side of Cascades should never be considered an alternative to SEA.
If the statements from the other three ramp employees support the assertion that a briefing took place, I think you have to take it at face value that it happened. I find it hard to accept that someone who lost a co-worker like that would be lying to protect the company, especially if they're being...
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