Flight Express Info...

[I Hate Freight]

i love the fact that i can actually talk with the pilot's of Flight Express!

Dude, you need a life.

Good Luck.

 

[Boris Badenov]

Boris, I'm just wondering, but is there still somebody doing 701 from LIT? For some reason I'm feeling nostalgic. Maybe it's because FLX was a stellar company to work for; at least in comparison to my present employer.

I'm pretty sure this guy exists, yes. I don't think I've ever met him, since I'm out at 7 and don't get back till 7, but I'm pretty sure I've heard people mention him.

PS. So are we to take it that waterski isn't quite the thing?

PPS. E62: I talked to dispatch and apparently we have an airplane based in Memphis, but not a pilot. It's a spare. It just sits there. Don't ask me how this works, but that's what they told me.

 

[Beechnut]

Flight Express has honest to goodness Dispatchers? That was always an out for the pilots, if you had a problem with weather or fuel just remind them they are office workers, NOT dispatchers.

S.

 

[Boris Badenov]

Beechnut: I've heard suggestions that things were a little more hostile a couple of years back. As it stands, I've had dispatch ask me nicely to fly only once when I didn't want to go. They had me call the chief pilot who made it very clear that if I didn't judge it safe, that was it. I waited for half an hour, took off, and never heard another word about it.

 

[ClippedWings]

They aren't dispatchers, they just play the role of dispatcher.

 

[Mason]

Crazy Bob

Is crazy Bob still flying for Flight Express? Used to hear him every night FLX690 (I believe) going into BHM.

 

[yzf6]

bob's still here! still on the same run too, i think.

 

[psysicx]

How senior is Jax?

 

[rickyrhodesii]

Route Map

This operation really has caught my interest. Is there a way the public (or i guess i should say myself) can view the routes of Flight Express?

I've checked out the sight and done the forum search...but i've only found a few of the routes listed.

By the way...thanks for all of the responses to this post! I didn't even expect half of the detailed and useful responses.

Keep up the good work and safe flying!

 

[Boris Badenov]

One could, if they were so inclined, probably go to flightaware.com and enter random three digit flight numbers. Since we're not a scheduled airline we can't publish a schedule (or this is what I was given to understand in training). I know that CPS-based flights start with a 7, for example my run is 702. If you have a question about a specific run, PM me.

P.S. I know a guy who got JAX right out of training. But again, it's pretty unpredictable.

P.P.S. Crazy Bob was on 615 not too long ago, I think. My couriers would tell me stories about "how Bob did it". They sounded exciting.