ILN ops

[erichartmann]

No Astar aircraft made today's day sort either. What's up with that? Surely there were crews who could have flown those aircraft to ILN. After all, the wx came back up fairly early in the morning, around 0430 or 0500 anyway.

It may not be counted against Astar's ontime performace as spelled out in the ACMI, but I feel sure somewhere someone in the DPWN/DHL network is taking notes.

 

[AV8OR]

"It may not be counted against Astar's ontime performace as spelled out in the ACMI, but I feel sure somewhere someone in the DPWN/DHL network is taking notes."

Eric, that assumes that DHL actually cares about their customers. Think again. That, my friend, is who's "taking notes".

 

[Johnlp3]

Taking notes? Who do you think makes the call to cancel the flights in the first place?

That's right..."the customer" DHL

 

[erichartmann]

Taking notes? Who do you think makes the call to cancel the flights in the first place?

That's right..."the customer" DHL

Doesn't mean their not taking notes. Flying fuel hungry jurrasic jets around that don't get where they are supposed to go is expen$ive. They may not care about the customer, they may make boneheaded decisions, but I doubt they like obviously pi$$ing money down a rathole, at least on the mico-economic scale the last couple of days represents. Not much point in getting into the "big" picture.

 

[Johnlp3]

I wonder how much it costs to keep a sort full of non-conveyables on the ground.

Cat II and more fuel efficient aircraft is only part of the solution.

 

[erichartmann]

I wonder how much it costs to keep a sort full of non-conveyables on the ground.

Cat II and more fuel efficient aircraft is only part of the solution.

Never said it was the whole solution. BTW, the 767's are Cat III. Reconfiguring the current 767 "C" container aircraft to the original belly containers would take care of most if not all of the non-conveyables. This is very inexpensive mod, currently underway. I'm told it only takes a few hours.

 

[Johnlp3]

BTW, the 767's are Cat III.

Cat II, Cat III. Either way it is more than we have.

Reconfiguring the current 767 "C" container aircraft to the original belly containers would take care of most if not all of the non-conveyables. This is very inexpensive mod, currently underway. I'm told it only takes a few hours.

So if all the 767s had the belly containers they could have taken care of all the cities in the whole system over the last couple of days? I guess DHL has nothing to worry about.

 

[TWA]

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ABX111/history/20070222/0516Z/KSGH/KPIT

Did ABX111 divert into SGH last night, or was there some filing fluke?

 

[LarryinTN]

Did ABX111 divert into SGH last night, or was there some filing fluke?

Flightaware is confused. I think that SGH is the first fix on the flight plan to PIT.

 

[LarryinTN]

So if all the 767s had the belly containers they could have taken care of all the cities in the whole system over the last couple of days?

We certainly flew a lot of extra sections--all of the 2000 flight numbers shown on Flightaware. We certainly don't have enough airplanes left to fly it all, though.