Part 135 Cargo ???
02-10-2010, 07:13 PM
#31
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Originally Posted by Planewatcher
Ameriflight will always be Ameriflight. Back in the 80's early 90's It was all about Banks and flying checks. That was AMF's Cash Crop flying across the country coast to coast. Someone back then said hey wait a min we can do small feeder also. Now that's where there cash crop is. Revenue has totally done a 180 as far as Feeder/banks. By the end of the year you will hardly see any checks as mandated by law. The night routes and freight have deceased substantially. As opposed to DHL/FDX/UPS routes. AMF then ventured in to the Radioactive Material flying (7060 ops)
It seems as soon as AMF loses a route they gain a route Somewhere else.
Airnet's Story was Banks and only banks. They bet the farm on banks. A few years ago they started flying stuff for Nordian (a Radioactive producer) I think they still hold the contract today. The cost to operate a Lear as compared to a metro or a 99 is a no brainier. But Lear's were all Airnet has for long haul trips.
Where AMF succeeds is their reliability. If something breaks they were there with a replacement still making service. I cant say that about the other company's. I have seen other company's charter out there route to AMF because they had no way of recovering.
It seems as soon as AMF loses a route they gain a route Somewhere else.
Airnet's Story was Banks and only banks. They bet the farm on banks. A few years ago they started flying stuff for Nordian (a Radioactive producer) I think they still hold the contract today. The cost to operate a Lear as compared to a metro or a 99 is a no brainier. But Lear's were all Airnet has for long haul trips.
Where AMF succeeds is their reliability. If something breaks they were there with a replacement still making service. I cant say that about the other company's. I have seen other company's charter out there route to AMF because they had no way of recovering.
Those worries more than 20 years ago about the future of banks' air transportation needs, are what started the company on a pretty agressive move onto the ground floor of the then-burgeoning small package express feeder flying business -- which, by the time bank flying started to crater, was generating the majority of Ameriflight's revenue.
02-10-2010, 07:53 PM
#32
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Originally Posted by freightdog
Just be careful when the Honey Bees get out of their boxes and loose inside the airplane at FL210. This is happened on more than one occasion to my fellow Ameriflighters. Thankfully it happened to me when I was just about to open the crew door.
You probably missed the story about the swarm of bees that attached itself to the radome of an Ameriflight Metro. With all that loud TPE-331 humming, they thought they'd found the biggest, sexiest queen bee in the whole great state of Texas, and fell in love!
02-10-2010, 07:56 PM
#33
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Originally Posted by freightdog
Airnet was highly vested in the banks with all those lear jets. That could have been a reason.
02-15-2010, 12:52 PM
#35
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Originally Posted by flywithjohn
Them 45º banks are fun eh?
02-15-2010, 06:59 PM
#36
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after reading through this I didn't see anyone post (unless I missed it) anything about Air cargo carriers. Whats the cost to operate a shorts? And if anyone is there whats it like to fly for them?
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