DLNZ wrote:

gdavis003 wrote:

N215WE and sister ship N216WE of IFL are joining in on the peak action. Both 727s received some TLC at PTK last week. 215 is en route to MSY, and 216 is en route to MEM. Both will operate to SDF tonight for UPS. Keeping a close eye on an Asia Pacific 757 as well (N922TS), which ferried from the pacific to BFI last night and is scheduled to operate BFI-ONT tonight as MGE985. Possibly for UPS as well?

MO11 wrote:

DLNZ wrote:

gdavis003 wrote:

N215WE and sister ship N216WE of IFL are joining in on the peak action. Both 727s received some TLC at PTK last week. 215 is en route to MSY, and 216 is en route to MEM. Both will operate to SDF tonight for UPS. Keeping a close eye on an Asia Pacific 757 as well (N922TS), which ferried from the pacific to BFI last night and is scheduled to operate BFI-ONT tonight as MGE985. Possibly for UPS as well?

MGE985 BFI-ONT, then MGE998 ONT-PDX, then MGE2975 PDX-ONT, then MGE2888 ONT-ABQ, then MGE881 ABQ-ONT (then back to 998) .

TSU701 MSY-SDF, then TSU812 SDF-ONT, then TSU2425 ONT-SDF, then TSU2702 SDF-MSY
TSU1389 MEM-SDF, then TSU724 SDF-LIT-MEM

gdavis003 wrote:

DLNZ wrote:

gdavis003 wrote:

N215WE and sister ship N216WE of IFL are joining in on the peak action. Both 727s received some TLC at PTK last week. 215 is en route to MSY, and 216 is en route to MEM. Both will operate to SDF tonight for UPS. Keeping a close eye on an Asia Pacific 757 as well (N922TS), which ferried from the pacific to BFI last night and is scheduled to operate BFI-ONT tonight as MGE985. Possibly for UPS as well?

Great stuff, I enjoy following IFL. Brown's ramp up continues. On that note, National have three 747Fs on duty for UPS currently:
N702CA on SDF-ONT
N952CA on SDF-CGN
N936CA on PHL-ONT

Their CEO & Chair was interviewed by Aviation Week recently, link below which is behind a paywall. From snippets I've read elsewhere, he says that they could place another 10 747s if they could source, and are considering A330 (Fs or P2Fs unknown), 77W P2Fs and other alternatives for growth. They love the 747, citing 35,000 cycles and 160k hours.

https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/ ... irman-says

10 more 747s would be quite impressive. Of course, not sure where exactly they would source those. Their passenger A332 leads me to believe that the A330 might be in their cargo future as well, but their growth isn't stopping anytime soon.

On the 747 front for Purple, I can see four (yes, four!) 747s scheduled to ferry to MEM tonight under GTI 9*** call signs (three from MIA, one from CVG). I can't see the tail numbers yet, so I'm assuming that these are four different aircraft, for now, unless they are filing these ferries again under different callsigns. Lots of Atlas metal on purple duty if these 747s are added to the mix.

Spacepope wrote:

Just spotted Western Global’s N781SN ferrying across the front range at 27000 feet as WGN9781 headed southeast.

FlapOperator wrote:

I wonder what this will mean for the Cologne (CGN) facility and CGN pilot base? I know that an original plan in the 1990s was for a A300 base and hub at CDG, that eventually turned into 757s and CGN.
So, the world might be turning again, for both.

HPRamper wrote:

499MC MEM-CGN-MEM
473MC MEM-STN-MEM
429MC HKG-ANC-MEM
477MC MEM-SJU-MEM
451PA SJU-MEM-HNL-ONT-MEM-SJU
450PA ICN-HKG-ANC-MEM-ICN

HPRamper wrote:

499MC MEM-CGN-MEM 89,212 hours, 14,675 cycles as of March 2021
473MC MEM-STN-MEM 109,067 hours, 19,619 cycles as of September 2021
429MC HKG-ANC-MEM 107390 hours, 16170 cycles as of May 2021
477MC MEM-SJU-MEM 91,400 hours, 16143 cycles as of June 2021
451PA SJU-MEM-HNL-ONT-MEM-SJU 82105 hours as of Sseptember 2020, 14,573 cycles as of July 2021 (no hours on last SDR, but probably right around 85,000 now)
450PA ICN-HKG-ANC-MEM-ICN 85308 hours, 14,560 cycles as of June 2021

wjcandee wrote:

Interesting note regarding ATI's 757-200 Combis. There are 4 of them, N751CX through N754CX.

As regular followers will know, N753CX has been basically parked for like 9 months or more, due to the absence of military business for her due to COVID restrictions in some of the places that the Combi service was stopping. However, today she is back in service: off to Norfolk for some trip somewhere.

Also interesting: we don't usually see the 757 Combis making trips to Europe and Eastern Europe. The last couple of days, however, N751CX (the only Precision Conversion of the bunch), took a little sojourn WRI-BWI-RMS-UAB-RMS-PSM-... That may have necessitated activating N753CX to cover the balance of the business. Good to see things picking up for the world's only active 757-200 Combis. Could also be that other potential aircraft had been diverted by their masters into Peak service, so a Combi was all that was available...

gdavis003 wrote:

Didn’t ATI deploy one of the combis to cargo-only service for a major cargo carrier (I can’t remember who) last year during peak? I could be wrong on my recollection of that, but I thought that was the case

wjcandee wrote:

gdavis003 wrote:

Didn’t ATI deploy one of the combis to cargo-only service for a major cargo carrier (I can’t remember who) last year during peak? I could be wrong on my recollection of that, but I thought that was the case

Might have. Candidly, what 754CX has been doing the last couple of days looks a little DHL-ish.

Spacepope wrote:

wjcandee wrote:

gdavis003 wrote:

Didn’t ATI deploy one of the combis to cargo-only service for a major cargo carrier (I can’t remember who) last year during peak? I could be wrong on my recollection of that, but I thought that was the case

Might have. Candidly, what 754CX has been doing the last couple of days looks a little DHL-ish.

IIRC there was a combi last year doing DHL work, IIRC subbing for a 734.

wjcandee wrote:

Spacepope wrote:

wjcandee wrote:

Might have. Candidly, what 754CX has been doing the last couple of days looks a little DHL-ish.

IIRC there was a combi last year doing DHL work, IIRC subbing for a 734.

Then it looks like that's what 754CX is going to be doing. I checked the date that they parked 753CX at ILN; it was 2/14/21. So it's been sitting for 9.5 months. No surprise that it apparently had a teething issue today. 752CX, 753CX and 754CX all have Rollers, the only RB211s in ATSG's fleet, to my knowledge. 751CX has Pratts. (That's because the latter 3 came from National, which had converted them on spec in the hopes of taking over the Combi contract. ATI had ordered 4 Precision Conversion combis, and took delivery of 751CX before cancelling the Precision contract in favor of just taking the three PEMCO ones off of National's hands after ATI kept the military Combi contract.)

wjcandee wrote:

Interesting note regarding ATI's 757-200 Combis. There are 4 of them, N751CX through N754CX.

As regular followers will know, N753CX has been basically parked for like 9 months or more, due to the absence of military business for her due to COVID restrictions in some of the places that the Combi service was stopping. However, today she is back in service: off to Norfolk for some trip somewhere.

Also interesting: we don't usually see the 757 Combis making trips to Europe and Eastern Europe. The last couple of days, however, N751CX (the only Precision Conversion of the bunch), took a little sojourn WRI-BWI-RMS-UAB-RMS-PSM-... That may have necessitated activating N753CX to cover the balance of the business. Good to see things picking up for the world's only active 757-200 Combis. Could also be that other potential aircraft had been diverted by their masters into Peak service, so a Combi was all that was available...

HPRamper wrote:

499MC MEM-CGN-MEM
473MC MEM-STN-MEM
429MC HKG-ANC-MEM
477MC MEM-SJU-MEM
451PA SJU-MEM-HNL-ONT-MEM-SJU
450PA ICN-HKG-ANC-MEM-ICN

bigb wrote:

HPRamper wrote:

499MC MEM-CGN-MEM
473MC MEM-STN-MEM
429MC HKG-ANC-MEM
477MC MEM-SJU-MEM
451PA SJU-MEM-HNL-ONT-MEM-SJU
450PA ICN-HKG-ANC-MEM-ICN

Some of those runs are the non- peak runs that that FedEx and Atlas went into agreement for earlier this fall

smartplane wrote:

wjcandee wrote:

Interesting note regarding ATI's 757-200 Combis. There are 4 of them, N751CX through N754CX.

As regular followers will know, N753CX has been basically parked for like 9 months or more, due to the absence of military business for her due to COVID restrictions in some of the places that the Combi service was stopping. However, today she is back in service: off to Norfolk for some trip somewhere.

Also interesting: we don't usually see the 757 Combis making trips to Europe and Eastern Europe. The last couple of days, however, N751CX (the only Precision Conversion of the bunch), took a little sojourn WRI-BWI-RMS-UAB-RMS-PSM-... That may have necessitated activating N753CX to cover the balance of the business. Good to see things picking up for the world's only active 757-200 Combis. Could also be that other potential aircraft had been diverted by their masters into Peak service, so a Combi was all that was available...

Don't the RNZAF operate a pair of active 757-200 Combi aircraft?

CX747 wrote:

HPRamper wrote:

499MC MEM-CGN-MEM
473MC MEM-STN-MEM
429MC HKG-ANC-MEM
477MC MEM-SJU-MEM
451PA SJU-MEM-HNL-ONT-MEM-SJU
450PA ICN-HKG-ANC-MEM-ICN

Pretty sure the 777Fs at Purple are confused, as the Golden God tailed 747Fs grow in number at MEM! Overall, at minimum there should be (7) Atlas 747Fs with FEDEX during peak. The recently contracted (2) for non-peak work and the contract that has been going on for years regarding a minimum of (5) 747F tails during the 4th Quarter.

For the rough and tumble boys of Aerotranscargo. ER-BBJ, The Upper Crust Society, Blue Blooded, only factory built freighter of the bunch, has been hauling from Kazakhstan to Hungary like it was going out of style. That operation continues to impress. They have those Queens running, have expanded their fleet and have a nice consistent footprint of operations now.

One jet I will be tracking this season is the Samaritan's Purse DC-8F. I know they have Oeration Christmas Child. Bringing gifts & necessities to children in need around the world.

Sorry to have been out of pocket here but I'll try to be a good boy and get back in the groove after next week.

wjcandee wrote:

I honestly didn't think of the NZ military birds, but looking them up, they don't seem to be combis as much as having been retrofitted as convertibles, like the old DC8CFs -- you can do all freight, you can do half and half, you can do various full-pax interior configurations. Can't do that with the Combis -- their STC is for them to be what they are, period. But the NZ birds definitely should be included in any discussion like this about the world's fleet of unconventional 757s.

CX747 wrote:

HPRamper wrote:

499MC MEM-CGN-MEM
473MC MEM-STN-MEM
429MC HKG-ANC-MEM
477MC MEM-SJU-MEM
451PA SJU-MEM-HNL-ONT-MEM-SJU
450PA ICN-HKG-ANC-MEM-ICN

Pretty sure the 777Fs at Purple are confused, as the Golden God tailed 747Fs grow in number at MEM! Overall, at minimum there should be (7) Atlas 747Fs with FEDEX during peak. The recently contracted (2) for non-peak work and the contract that has been going on for years regarding a minimum of (5) 747F tails during the 4th Quarter.

For the rough and tumble boys of Aerotranscargo. ER-BBJ, The Upper Crust Society, Blue Blooded, only factory built freighter of the bunch, has been hauling from Kazakhstan to Hungary like it was going out of style. That operation continues to impress. They have those Queens running, have expanded their fleet and have a nice consistent footprint of operations now.

One jet I will be tracking this season is the Samaritan's Purse DC-8F. I know they have Oeration Christmas Child. Bringing gifts & necessities to children in need around the world.

Sorry to have been out of pocket here but I'll try to be a good boy and get back in the groove after next week.

bmibaby737 wrote:

Alta Airlines Holdings has registered a 757-200(PCF) as N511KW 30 November 2021; the aircraft have a tendency to go to Eastern Airlines (particularly with the KW registration). Has Eastern announced any intention to add 757 freighters?

Spacepope wrote:

bmibaby737 wrote:

Alta Airlines Holdings has registered a 757-200(PCF) as N511KW 30 November 2021; the aircraft have a tendency to go to Eastern Airlines (particularly with the KW registration). Has Eastern announced any intention to add 757 freighters?

Could you post a link to where you got this info? Skyliner and a quick google search turn up nothing. I'd be interested to know which aircraft in particular this was (especially if it was that ex-eastern 757-225F that just ferried in across the pacific, would be a funny tie up of Eastern operating an aircraft with an Eastern customer code)

DLNZ wrote:

smartplane wrote:

wjcandee wrote:

Interesting note regarding ATI's 757-200 Combis. There are 4 of them, N751CX through N754CX.

As regular followers will know, N753CX has been basically parked for like 9 months or more, due to the absence of military business for her due to COVID restrictions in some of the places that the Combi service was stopping. However, today she is back in service: off to Norfolk for some trip somewhere.

Also interesting: we don't usually see the 757 Combis making trips to Europe and Eastern Europe. The last couple of days, however, N751CX (the only Precision Conversion of the bunch), took a little sojourn WRI-BWI-RMS-UAB-RMS-PSM-... That may have necessitated activating N753CX to cover the balance of the business. Good to see things picking up for the world's only active 757-200 Combis. Could also be that other potential aircraft had been diverted by their masters into Peak service, so a Combi was all that was available...

Don't the RNZAF operate a pair of active 757-200 Combi aircraft?

Yes! As a kiwi in this industry I'm very familiar with these birds. NZ7571 & 7572, built for Transavia and converted to Combis for the RNZAF. Rolls powered, convertible configuration which can be all pax (for troop transport etc), VIP config (separate cabin up front and pax seating behind for staffers, media etc) for Prime Ministerial and royal duties etc, or a true combi of freight up front and pax behind. They operate to various theatres as you could imagine, including to/from Antarctica from CHC supporting the base down there.

Spacepope wrote:

bmibaby737 wrote:

Alta Airlines Holdings has registered a 757-200(PCF) as N511KW 30 November 2021; the aircraft have a tendency to go to Eastern Airlines (particularly with the KW registration). Has Eastern announced any intention to add 757 freighters?

Could you post a link to where you got this info? Skyliner and a quick google search turn up nothing. I'd be interested to know which aircraft in particular this was (especially if it was that ex-eastern 757-225F that just ferried in across the pacific, would be a funny tie up of Eastern operating an aircraft with an Eastern customer code)

bmibaby737 wrote:

Spacepope wrote:

bmibaby737 wrote:

Alta Airlines Holdings has registered a 757-200(PCF) as N511KW 30 November 2021; the aircraft have a tendency to go to Eastern Airlines (particularly with the KW registration). Has Eastern announced any intention to add 757 freighters?

Could you post a link to where you got this info? Skyliner and a quick google search turn up nothing. I'd be interested to know which aircraft in particular this was (especially if it was that ex-eastern 757-225F that just ferried in across the pacific, would be a funny tie up of Eastern operating an aircraft with an Eastern customer code)

Would have been very quick to verify the information on the FAA website, Planespotters.net has also picked it up pretty quickly.

bmibaby737 wrote:

Would have been very quick to verify the information on the FAA website, Planespotters.net has also picked it up pretty quickly.

RoyalBrunei757 wrote:

A very sad case for these two very young A330-243 heading for scrapping apparently two days ago. Both were delivered brand new, flew slightly over 7 years only. Wasn't there a rumour both will be converted? I must have gotten it wrong. I am afraid those ex-Avianca airframes will eventually meet the same fate.

Both caught arriving here at ZRH to clear customs before their last take-off to LDE.
D-AAAQ: https://twitter.com/airpicfreak/status/ ... 9378658305
D-AAAS: https://twitter.com/Schmidy_87/status/1 ... 7190915072

wjcandee wrote:

bmibaby737 wrote:

Would have been very quick to verify the information on the FAA website, Planespotters.net has also picked it up pretty quickly.

For what it's worth, I feel like these kind of nannying, superior comments have no place in this thread. We don't do it to each other in here. We also don't do the obnoxious "Source?!" nonsense that you see elsewhere. Maybe I read into it a tone that wasn't intended...

A more-polite way of doing it would just be to say that one saw it first on the FAA website, and then were pleased to see that Planespotters also now has it. Done. Doesn't put anybody down. Just shares the info in a welcoming way.

RoyalBrunei757 wrote:

A very sad case for these two very young A330-243 heading for scrapping apparently two days ago. Both were delivered brand new, flew slightly over 7 years only. Wasn't there a rumour both will be converted? I must have gotten it wrong. I am afraid those ex-Avianca airframes will eventually meet the same fate.

Both caught arriving here at ZRH to clear customs before their last take-off to LDE.
D-AAAQ: https://twitter.com/airpicfreak/status/ ... 9378658305
D-AAAS: https://twitter.com/Schmidy_87/status/1 ... 7190915072

RoyalBrunei757 wrote:

A very sad case for these two very young A330-243 heading for scrapping apparently two days ago. Both were delivered brand new, flew slightly over 7 years only. Wasn't there a rumour both will be converted? I must have gotten it wrong. I am afraid those ex-Avianca airframes will eventually meet the same fate.

Both caught arriving here at ZRH to clear customs before their last take-off to LDE.

wjcandee wrote:

RoyalBrunei757 wrote:

A very sad case for these two very young A330-243 heading for scrapping apparently two days ago. Both were delivered brand new, flew slightly over 7 years only. Wasn't there a rumour both will be converted? I must have gotten it wrong. I am afraid those ex-Avianca airframes will eventually meet the same fate.

Both caught arriving here at ZRH to clear customs before their last take-off to LDE.

Is there any hope that they're not being scrapped? Several of the 767-300s that ultimately were converted for Amazon by Atlas's leasing company spent a fair spell at LDE before heading for conversion, so it's not only for scrappin'; it's sometimes for storage!

wjcandee wrote:

bmibaby737 wrote:

Would have been very quick to verify the information on the FAA website, Planespotters.net has also picked it up pretty quickly.

For what it's worth, I feel like these kind of nannying, superior comments have no place in this thread. We don't do it to each other in here. We also don't do the obnoxious "Source?!" nonsense that you see elsewhere. Maybe I read into it a tone that wasn't intended...

A more-polite way of doing it would just be to say that one saw it first on the FAA website, and then were pleased to see that Planespotters also now has it. Done. Doesn't put anybody down. Just shares the info in a welcoming way.

BTW, not a lot of people routinely check the FAA web site, but it's a good source for what it contains, so I appreciate you reminding us of its existence and convenience as a source. (And it's been spiffed up a few months ago!) Usually, MO11 has the info before it shows up there, which is why I call him the Oracle. Spacepope, by the way, is a whiz with the SDR feature, and gets us lots of good stuff off of there, but it's hardly his responsibility to check all possibilities before asking a question.

wjcandee wrote:

BTW, not a lot of people routinely check the FAA web site, but it's a good source for what it contains, so I appreciate you reminding us of its existence and convenience as a source. (And it's been spiffed up a few months ago!) Usually, MO11 has the info before it shows up there, which is why I call him the Oracle. Spacepope, by the way, is a whiz with the SDR feature, and gets us lots of good stuff off of there, but it's hardly his responsibility to check all possibilities before asking a question.

bmibaby737 wrote:

wjcandee wrote:

bmibaby737 wrote:

Would have been very quick to verify the information on the FAA website, Planespotters.net has also picked it up pretty quickly.

Maybe I read into it a tone that wasn't intended...

FAA web site... I appreciate you reminding us of its existence and convenience as a source.

thank you for making me feel bad.

classicjets wrote:

Can add Air Atlanta Icelandic TF-AAK to the list of pfreighters which is (maybe?) the first 747 pfreighter we see. Even has cargo positions on the upper deck. Currently making its first run HKG-MST.

zkojq wrote:

Air Inuit has gotten an extra large cargo door put on one of their Q300 (C-GAIW).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyulplane ... 719451947/

classicjets wrote:

Can add Air Atlanta Icelandic TF-AAK to the list of pfreighters which is (maybe?) the first 747 pfreighter we see. Even has cargo positions on the upper deck. Currently making its first run HKG-MST.

Thankyou - I'll keep a lookout for it.

FlapOperator wrote:

According to the system bid at FX, looks like lots of growth in the future there, including sub 1 year captains. Rumor is 1500 more pilots hired in the next 24 months plus significant attrition.

diverted wrote:

zkojq wrote:

Air Inuit has gotten an extra large cargo door put on one of their Q300 (C-GAIW).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyulplane ... 719451947/

Here's a little article on the Air Inuit Dash
https://skiesmag.com/news/air-inuit-cha ... ification/

DLNZ wrote:

A couple of WGN ships have escaped the Shreveport hangar! N344KD after more than two months in maintenance is enroute to ICN, just in time for some of the peak.
And newly minted MD11 781SN is off to RSW to join 452SN and hopefully for revenue service soon.