Originally Posted by
CRJammin
What's the reason for no jumbo's at the largest freight airline in the world? I saw a ton of Boeings (with 4 engines) at Tokyo Narita last week, and noticed only trijets for FedEx.
Is this aircraft too expensive to operate? What other reason would explain your avoidance of the venerable Boeing jumbo's? Thanks! Over to you pro's-
Its really pretty simple From Freds standpoint.....
Every engine above 1 decreases A/C reliability by at least 1% Thats first.
Second, The 727, 737 we used to have, in fact most regular tube A/C only take a certain size container that is common between them all. The 747 has a huge volumn, but only usable if you manually build pallets that use that space. To have pallets that you can use in ALL of our A/C and utilize all the space you can't use manual building of pallets or some of the larger builds that you can use to utilize the space in a 747. That creates inefficiency in 747's for US.....Lots of world cargo carriers use 747's because they have time to build pallets to use that space. WE DON'T.
Its all about utilizing space efficiently and quickly.