I’ve seen a photo of the #2 engine and it has a hole about 10 inches in diameter blown out of the cowling of the jet exhaust nozzle at the 2 o’clock position (near the high pressure bleed)
Jump to post889091 wrote:2 questions.
1. Does a compressor stall warrant a "Pan Pan Pan" call?
2. Did they have to dump fuel?
Interesting observation I made today - UPS didn’t run any of their regional night sorts last night. Everything funneled through SDF. It wasn’t that long ago that was fairly unthinkable. Really goes to show how much spare capacity there is in the network. MLK day was always a slight volume decrease....
Jump to postpugman211 wrote:So, was it the wire discontinuity that caused the alternate gear extension to not work?
I’ve heard the alt gear didn’t work because of a faulty wire.
Jump to postOn the ATC tapes, the crew said they were talking with Dispatch, specifically on where to take it, but they landed at KCHA with one hour of fuel. I find it hard to believe that dispatch didn't phone-patch them to MX control and that MX control didn't ask them to verify no CB's were popped, which is...
Jump to postIf it's so easy to snag a bag/item of clothing/accidentally kick the CB, why didn't Boeing put a protective cover over the whole board or easier still, move it slightly upwards from the floor? I don’t know. Why didn’t they program an EICAS message to prompt whenever the breaker is popped? They just...
Jump to postThat C829 breaker in position A1 fed power to all of the other A row and B row circuit breakers on that panel, none of which provided any indication to the pilots that they were unpowered. It was probably bumped by a flight kit or cleaning crew. As maintenance, we rarely touched that breaker. I wou...
Jump to postSwissCanuck wrote:What kind of failure also prevents alternate extension?
The article is talking about furloughs - but I'd think they'd go the buyout/early retirement route first. Probably can find a number that would take that and jump over to things like corporate jets if they still want to work. I also wonder how much is the post pandemic dip with folks buying more in...
Jump to postI remember seeing an interview with the FedEx boss a few years ago, where the journalist asked him if he was worried about the growth of Amazon's competing airline. Nope, no need to worry. He didn't even take the question seriously. Combine that with the fact that many of the cargo airlines ordered...
Jump to postHas anyone heard anything about e195Fs for FedEx being flown by Breeze?
Jump to postIf FedEx does that, they are battier than I even thought. Insanity. I think it has to be more a rumor to drive the union to realize that this could be the outcome of it's truly-crappy scope clause that leadership agreed to. WGN has like zero reliability, and while some very-nice people work there, ...
Jump to postCould someone explain this to me like I was 5 please? Does this mean FX is wet leasing the entire WGA MD-11 fleet for FX work, or they are wet leasing the FX MD-11s to WGA? The way I understand is that FedEx will wet lease WGA MD-11s with FedEx providing spare parts and technical support in order t...
Jump to postI feel bad for the ESOP contributors, who continued to believe in and support the company, despite what was obvious to the rest of us. The four (4) WGN 744F's could have some residual value or would be interesting to lease. N258SN, factory built 747-47UF (Del : July 1999), active , last SDR entry :...
Jump to postIn 25 years at my airline I have never had a normal negotiated contract. 2003 23% pay cut. 2013 bankrupt contract. 2015 combined contract post merger concessionaire. Currently an AIP to maybe voted on soon. I say maybe because it hasn’t been voted on by the Union leaders yet. I have never received ...
Jump to postI expect ASL, or another contractor, to eventually do the majority of the intra-Asia flying as well. FedEx will ultimately invoke contract language to lower the pilots bid line guarantee as a precursor to a furlough. That won't be as easy as they do in Europe. The aviation market in Asia has not ye...
Jump to postFedEx ALPA has already TA'd the scope article probably with similar language to what they have now. To open it back up for re-negotiation would cost the union a huge amount of negotiating capital and the company knows it. It would take ALPA making MAJOR concessions in pay, retirement, benefits and ...
Jump to postDoes anyone have any educated guesses or higher level understandings of what the One FedEx DRIVE program is all about? What the future looks like in say 5 years at FedEx… from what I’m reading it seems to be more trucks less planes and when they do fly it, less hub and spoke and more point-to-point....
Jump to postLooking forward to seeing how Fedex integrate Express and Ground. A lot of duplication there. I see they are going to copy UPS and move more ground in containers on trains. I would bet that the D.E. Shaw appointed Board of Director, Jim Vena, who is also the Union Pacific COO, had something to do w...
Jump to postTo not allow someone to work because of their age when they can meet the requirements of the job is age discrimination. To not allow my 4 year to get a driver’s license is age discrimination. Key phrase - I don’t think your 4 year old can “meet the requirements” in this case. Come on, clearly we’re...
Jump to postSteelChair wrote:To not allow someone to work because of their age when they can meet the requirements of the job is age discrimination.
I would imagine the third-party lift will generally be used internationally where lower volumes may no longer justify operating a purple-tail aircraft and more passenger flights post-recovery make using belly space a realistic option again. The FedEx pilots have a good scope clause in their contrac...
Jump to postFedEx is now talking about substituting contract lift for some organic lift. Ugly. Can you elaborate, Will? Hi, Whip! Sure. There was a Loadstar article about this, but Raj said in the latest earnings call on 12/20/22, "At Express, the team is transforming the network to be more agile, efficie...
Jump to postwjcandee wrote:FedEx is now talking about substituting contract lift for some organic lift. Ugly.
It’s a test flight of some sort. Maybe they were checking the pressurization after doing some maintenance on it.
Jump to postAtlas being bought by Apollo-LED. What’s the strategy there? No such thing as "Apollo-LED" its an "Apollo-led investment group". Investment firms buy companies all the time when they think they can make money. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/01/apollo-led-investment-group-in-talks-...
Jump to postAtlas being bought by Apollo-LED. What’s the strategy there?
Jump to postHas anyone reading the amazon tea leaves determined anything new in regards to their plans? Do they plan on buying airlines and forming their own flight department? Are they aiming to take on UPS and FedEx?
Jump to postWhat’s to stop Amazon from just buying one of the airlines they contract with and just use that certificate and ops? Why borrow the trouble? Look at the attitude of a typical airline employee ("race to the bottom", "whipsaw", when in fact Amazon is prioritizing quality, dependab...
Jump to post$30 million probably buys a lot of land near ILN. Not a clue. I will have to put on my thinking cap. Perhaps recognizing the resilience and work ethic of the folks in Wilmington proper, they're planning a different kind of facility in the area for after the sort migrates over to CVG. I saw an amazo...
Jump to postWill, what’s the significance of this? https://aircargoworld.com/allposts/amazon-looks-to-build-disruptive-cargo-airline/?utm_source=ACW+Main+List&utm_campaign=ee611417d1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1711f92e66-ee611417d1-39682037&fbclid=IwAR1VQJ4nNIBoDI_PYxwaAgf5S...
Jump to postWill, what’s the significance of this? https://aircargoworld.com/allposts/amazon-looks-to-build-disruptive-cargo-airline/?utm_source=ACW+Main+List&utm_campaign=ee611417d1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1711f92e66-ee611417d1-39682037&fbclid=IwAR1VQJ4nNIBoDI_PYxwaAgf5Sv...
Jump to postInterestingly, the FO once flew at Gulfstream Airlines (his LinkedIn page), pilots who flew there went on to be involved in 4 out of 5 post-9/11 US airline accidents—Pinnacle 3701 high dive from 410 , Comair 5191 KLEX , Colgan 3407 KBUF and Atlas. The outlier is AA587. GF UPS1354 feels like it was ...
Jump to postGA switch hit by mistake by captain, somatogravic illusion of FO caused him to push nose down, as I postulated in post #1500. I took some flak for that post but figured I'd just wait for the report. Same basic cause as in FlyDubai 981 although that was the captain dialing nose-down trim in that cas...
Jump to postOne other new thing I noted: somewhere in the report, it mentions that the attitude indicator was balky for a few moments prior to the accident sequence, and the FO transferred control to the CA as a result. When it appeared to be okay, they retransferred. Just wondering whether when (if!!) -- havi...
Jump to postwhen you say "click, click, my airplane," what does that mean? What are the clicks? Sound made when disconnecting the autopilot ! I’m wondering if the panicked F/O would have released the controls easily. JS should have hit him hard! I had flown that Jumpseater before. He would sit agains...
Jump to postWas there actually any indication of a stall at all, or just the mistaken impression of one? The shocking thing here is that a professional pilot at this level would still be so disoriented by somatogravic illusion. This is one of the fundamental skills of instrument flying which should be addresse...
Jump to postA guaranteed way to sabotage your business model is to scare all your pilots off to ULCCs by introducing more whipsaw airlines into the mix.
Jump to postTeamsters 1224 lost the Atlas arbitration today. Now the fun begins! Just in time for peak season!!! Bezos better tell Purchase to pay up if they expect any wheels to turn for the holidays. Yeah right. Because the pilots “have em right where we want em” now. Get real, dude. It is real.... dude. The...
Jump to postCoThG wrote:Teamsters 1224 lost the Atlas arbitration today. Now the fun begins! Just in time for peak season!!! Bezos better tell Purchase to pay up if they expect any wheels to turn for the holidays.
Atlas will begin shrinking their amazon lift beginning in September due to lack of crew. Seems they bit off more than they could chew.
Jump to postDelta28L wrote:What cities will be served out of ILN?
GoodRide wrote:Whiplash6 wrote:DeltaRules wrote:What's the latest on the start of ILN ops? Last I'd heard it was to happen this month.
August
As early as the first week of July, looking at my current schedule.
DeltaRules wrote:What's the latest on the start of ILN ops? Last I'd heard it was to happen this month.
Open question to anyone...Do you think at some point Amazon will own its cargo jets like UPS/FEDEX?? or just use contract carriers??? Contract carriers is cheaper and Amazon has the added benefit of controlling the operation where they want to, taking credit when they want to, and denying responsib...
Jump to postSouthern utilizes two unpainted 737s in cvg as time-building planes for those that don’t meet the minimum requirements for an ATP. They do runs to MIA and back with no payload, no passengers; just burning gas. That’s how low things have fallen at AAWH.
Jump to postSo when is the point going to be reached when the FAA forces Amazon to take their operations in house? It seems like Amazon is almost to the point that UPS reached before the FAA stepped in and made them create their own airline rather than contract it out. There are significant differences between...
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