C17B74

More AMC with Poland base - Sign me up, bring it on. More former backyard flying in that region over a decade ago in neighboring beautiful areas such as Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Serbia, Czechia, etc. was an amazing time. Once again, bring it on sign me up and not on salary is just icing. Can we put a permanent base in Croatia as our forces frequent this “establishment”? Let’s vote Croatia 🇭🇷 !!!

Haven’t heard Sun Country crossing the Atlantic, but I did hear Jet Blue several months ago = weird.

CRJJ

Hey I had a beautiful Croatian girlfriend when I lived in Germany, sign me up too

About Apollo.....it may be wishful thinking, but I'd like to think that whoever decides to buy Atlas, IF that ends up happening...they'd do it because they see the potential and the freaking good numbers we make. And we are not the most expensive crews out there, so why would they mess with that part of the business.
This Apollo people seem to have a "good" reputation, as in money and numbers are all it matters obviously, but they try to reach that goal through growth and optimization, not annihilation.
Again, it could be jus tme being optimistic.

160to4

You aren’t aware JetBlue fly daily to LHR and a few times a week to LGW? Sun Country used to leased some birds to Transavia in The Netherlands…not sure if they still do??

C17B74

Aware that it only has been a year since service started (Last Aug) and it was hit or miss first six months at best. Definitely picked up a bit but nothing like the majors when listening to the chatter across when monitoring sporadic at best and pandemic couldn’t have helped. Granted we don’t stick to normal pax carrier departures and arrivals to/fro. It’s new! Also, leasing is quite a bit different than doing! We lease quite a few frames with Titan (>30 small, medium, wide body) as you are probably aware of, but none of us care as we do way more diverse flying than whatever the lessee does with it most likely. We only care when new airframes are coming and do we fly them or are they Titanized?

*I believe the day I was chatting with the JetBlue gents a Delta chimed in with “Let’s Go *******”, from which I replied “When did Southwest get out here!” We all had a good laugh and off JB went in their Airbus. Still weird, but curious how senior would those trips be?

Starlifter

It’s was more than 10 years ago that SCA wet leased to Transavia. That lease finished long ago. We did dry lease from Transavia until about ~2019. That lease finished too. We still cross the Atlantic…although, it has tapered off considerably in the last 12 mos or so.

160to4

Actually I read somewhere that the qualification goes very junior, straight out of training almost (for FOs any way). No one bids for it because they usually depart late and once they do, reserves could end up doing red eyes to the Caribbean.

160to4

Thanks for the update. Did you fly for Tui this summer? Global Crossings might be taking some of that business

N152SY

Are you talking about the blue Sun Country/Tui plane (N844SY)? It missed its paint slot so it will remain in Tui colours until it can go get its Tide Pod paint job.


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beech1980

no flying for TUI. They have flown DOD etops flights for many years from the US to Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Etops flights are not new for sun country.

N152SY

Sounds like Amazon may now join the bidding for Atlas. Interesting move. Those 8 737s would likely end up at Sunny then


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