Its a long story and I'll hold off on personal opinions. I'm just going to give the facts:
- Confirmed that at least 3 767-200s are being put into storage. I'm going to guess it will be 762CX, 763CX, and 791AX as they are the non-ETOPS planes. 763CX is in some stage of a C-check, so that is either money wasted or money saved; depends on how you look at it.
- DHL America is reevaluating one of the 757s in the system. I can only assume this is in response to the 737s coming on at Southern. Details I've been told are vague.
- Pilot furloughs have been announced but it should be lessoned now that 117 is in effect and the combi trips now have a few more layovers for crews.
Based on what I'm hearing and my observation, it might look like this:
316CM will probably be left open for one off charters and probably end up going back to Bahrain, to cover 319CM when it needs another check. 761CX and 312AA will be the two used 767-200s. One will probably cover all the flying over the next few months that ATI has and the other will sit spare for it.
This basically equates to 1 767-300 (319CM) and 1 767-200 (761CX or 312AA) as the only planes with constant work, in addition to the 3 757Fs (4 depending on what DHL does) and 3 757Cs flying work.
Last edited by NCR757dxr; 01-03-2014 at 04:19 PM.