Great news UPS rumor

[FreightNazi]

He is an exerpt of a post on the IPA message board. It was posted by a person that is usually very reliable and credible but take it as a rumor for now, but a very credible on at that.

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The word over in the Pac Rim is that vacancy bid will most likely come
out on Thursday or Friday. From what I was told, it is going to be
big. Approximately 77 Captains and 43 F/O's! Most vancancies are on
the Md-11 and A300. They are also filling any Captain who are going
to turn 60 in 2005. This is strictly a vacancy bid, no realignments.
This will really be a total of 120 F/0 upgrades because of the Captain
bid. I wonder if some of the new hires will find a right seat.

 

[SWA/FO]

UPS has MD-11s and A300s? Sounds like FedEx to me.

 

[CaptainBrazilia]

Yo!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/747352/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/743792/M/

 

[D-Bo]

UPS has MD-11s and A300s? Sounds like FedEx to me.

Yes. Fed Ex has A-300s and MD-11s. They've been operating them for a couple of years now.

D-Bo

 

[Benhuntn]

Yep they have both. It was a battle in the late 90's to see who could acquire the most MD-11's UPS or FEDeX.

 

[Pimpin']

Yes. Fed Ex has A-300s and MD-11s. They've been operating them for a couple of years now.

D-Bo

So does UPS.

 

[D-Bo]

Yes. Fed Ex has A-300s and MD-11s. They've been operating them for a couple of years now.

D-Bo

Oooooops. My bad. Menat to say "Yes. UPS has A-300s and MD-11s. They've been operating them for a couple of years now."

D-Bo

 

[TonyC]

Yep they have both. It was a battle in the late 90's to see who could acquire the most MD-11's UPS or FEDeX.

The Swissair MD-11's sat for quite a while with no takers - - it didn't look like a battle to me. I don't think UPS got their first MD-11 until 2001. (2000 maybe?) UPS had problems employing the MD-11's with a third crewmember intially due to contract issues. But, yes, they have some.

 

[FreightNazi]

Here are the rumored number of vacancies.
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Vacancy Bid 05-101


Effective: May 21, 2005
Closes: January 21, 2005 8:00am (SDF)

# positions A/C Seat Domicile
3 727 F/O SDF
12 757 CPT SDF
10 757 F/O SDF
5 757 CPT SDFZ
1 757 F/O SDFZ
2 757 CPT ONT
2 757 F/O ONT
3 757 CPT MIA
24 A300 CPT SDF
19 A300 F/O SDF
5 DC-8 CPT SDF
3 DC-8 F/O SDF
26 MD-11 CPT SDF
5 MD-11 F/O SDF

 

[EMB_driver2002]

Whats the Difference between SDF and SDFZ? International?