Evergreen Sonair

[sgu]

World has the Sonair flying for at least another year.

Maybe all three carriers will share the flying, we shall see soon!

 

[Hocus Focus]

Dont think so

 

[WabiSabi]

Maybe all three carriers will share the flying, we shall see soon!

World and Evergreen. Sonair doesn't have an aircraft capable of the trip. Who is the third carrier?

Anyway, sharing of any flying will never happen.

 

[propsarebest]

Sonair owns 4 747-400's. They are parked at MZJ.

 

[WabiSabi]

Sonair owns 4 747-400's. They are parked at MZJ.

:0I misspoke....I knew that!:0

I should have said that Sonair pilots are not a player as they cannot fly their own planes to the US. Sonair is on the banned airlines list for the EU and it would be almost an eternity before they could get approval to fly their 747's to the US. So, it still boils down to World or Evergreen. Although, I heard Atlas wants in/wanted in at one time.

In any case, there still won't be any sharing of flying.

 

[spitfire1500]

Longterm...it sounds like Atlas got this contract to operate the 74's.

 

[spitfire1500]

Now heres an unexpected twist. Came from a pretty reliable Evergreen source.....that none of the above got the Sonair deal.....Delta Airlines is going to put a plane on the route for SonAir.

 

[Hocus Focus]

Makes you wonder about all the former Delta employees working at World HDQ...hmmmm If this is true this has happend before in the recent past where Delta/NWA has popped on the radar for work that World was working on. VERY PLAUSIBLE!!!

 

[bigsky]

doesnt make sense for them to have 747s of their own if they struck a deal with Delta.....but then again many things dont make sense

 

[servicemonkey]

Delta is starting twice weekly service Atlanta-Luanda mid June:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=214

 

[q100]

Delta is starting twice weekly service Atlanta-Luanda mid June:
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=214

2x weekly, stopping at Sal Verde, 757...

Not exactly an equivalent to 3x weekly non-stop MD-11 is it?

 

[servicemonkey]

2x weekly, stopping at Sal Verde, 757...

Not exactly an equivalent to 3x weekly non-stop MD-11 is it?

Nor the class of service you'll see on on a World MD11 with 101 seats (12 first, 38 business) and 13 or so FA's- as long as you can pry some of that good catering out of their paws.

 

[Classicdriver]

Atlas training center is spinning up for FA training and the unofficial word is it's a done deal for Atlas. FWTW.

 

[WabiSabi]

Atlas training center is spinning up for FA training and the unofficial word is it's a done deal for Atlas. FWTW.

Yeah, I heard that too. I also heard (unofficial word) that the contract has still not been awarded for next year.

 

[sat74]

Also heard its now official that Sonair has a 747 carrier picked out and will be intergrating Angolan crews. Wonder how that will play out with the various unions!

 

[sgu]

Angolan FA'S...?

 

[waka]

Also heard its now official that Sonair has a 747 carrier picked out and will be intergrating Angolan crews. Wonder how that will play out with the various unions!

I think that they just want to integrate FA's and of course if it is Atlas, it's a non issue.

 

[legalalien]

According to a memo out at World Sonair wants to use some Angolan cockpit and cabin crewmembers, and it appears that some other airline must be agreeing to that!

Good luck to whichever group has to deal with that!

 

[Offwidth]

Nor the class of service you'll see on on a World MD11 with 101 seats (12 first, 38 business) and 13 or so FA's- as long as you can pry some of that good catering out of their paws.

HAAAHAAAHAAAAA! Too funny.

It's a shame they are so embarrassingly unattractive....

 

[sat74]

With the EU lifting the ban on TAAG flying into the EU after passing the safety audit with a 98% and their 777s flying again, I wonder how TAAG's proposed LAD-IAH (either with TAAG's 777 pending FAA aproval or SAA A340 under ACMI) will effect this World/Atlas/??? contract?