Originally Posted by
av8rmike
Nope, not on the 11, I know who both my parents are.... Sorry, had to take the shot. I wasn't aware at all they used a lot of charters and got around our Scope clause. Any idea on a rough % relative to MD lines?
Thanks,
Mike
Alot of the Charters don't make it to the MD-11 lines, short notice miltary stuff. We have the regular "Limited" charter out of Hong Kong through ANC to LCK and or JFK. That charter is so lucrative, we often move an empty MD-11 from FRA through DXB to HKG. Sometimes Atlas has run that charter for FedEx, because the Limited has specifically asked for a 747 (a volume issue I believe) approaching Peak!
We'd probably do more military charters except we don't have the lift. As far as FedEx skirting the Scope clause in the charter business, I don't know! But this certainly closes a loophole!
I personally have done race car charters in/out of Rio, horse/animal charters (90 mares and 3stallions from SYD-PEK for example), military charters in/out of Mombasa and Cairo, also done numerous CHS/FRA/MXP/KWI/DXB military charters (last time I flew with Foxhunter was as his sky b!tch from DXB to HKG moving an empty plane on a charter trip).