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04-10-2019 | 09:16 AM
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04-10-2019 | 10:19 AM
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Still not tango uniform.....that was the question. It's been a dumpster fire for years....yet they hang on. Could go on for years more. With their tits up or pointing straight at the floor.
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07-21-2019 | 01:41 PM
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Western Global flies the same types as SkyLease does, and has proven it can do it with reliability sufficient to service UPS on a track charter basis over a significant period. (I know SkyLease did some Peak work, but it's a different animal.) I would think that Western Global would be the next carrier for DHL, if it needed aircraft of that size, before SkyLease.
OTOH, I tend to look at this stuff rationally, so I could well be completely wrong...
07-23-2019 | 11:44 AM
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07-25-2019 | 04:38 PM
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It's interesting how the major integrators are moving away from the 747, while other shippers seem to want more of them.
Flexport just dumped Western Global as its operator because it wasn't happy with the dispatch reliability of the 747 that WGN was operating for it, and was particularly unhappy with an MD11 frequently being substituted for it. So it went to, of all places, Atlas for a factory 747F with the nose door. Just happened.
I say "of all places" because with the problems Atlas is having, I'm surprised that if Flexport wanted high reliability, they didn't go to Kalitta.
Regardless, I also noticed that National has customers for 3 additional 747s that it is starting to add.
Flexport just dumped Western Global as its operator because it wasn't happy with the dispatch reliability of the 747 that WGN was operating for it, and was particularly unhappy with an MD11 frequently being substituted for it. So it went to, of all places, Atlas for a factory 747F with the nose door. Just happened.
I say "of all places" because with the problems Atlas is having, I'm surprised that if Flexport wanted high reliability, they didn't go to Kalitta.
Regardless, I also noticed that National has customers for 3 additional 747s that it is starting to add.
07-25-2019 | 05:40 PM
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07-26-2019 | 06:49 AM
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It's interesting how the major integrators are moving away from the 747, while other shippers seem to want more of them.
Flexport just dumped Western Global as its operator because it wasn't happy with the dispatch reliability of the 747 that WGN was operating for it, and was particularly unhappy with an MD11 frequently being substituted for it. So it went to, of all places, Atlas for a factory 747F with the nose door. Just happened.
I say "of all places" because with the problems Atlas is having, I'm surprised that if Flexport wanted high reliability, they didn't go to Kalitta.
Regardless, I also noticed that National has customers for 3 additional 747s that it is starting to add.
Flexport just dumped Western Global as its operator because it wasn't happy with the dispatch reliability of the 747 that WGN was operating for it, and was particularly unhappy with an MD11 frequently being substituted for it. So it went to, of all places, Atlas for a factory 747F with the nose door. Just happened.
I say "of all places" because with the problems Atlas is having, I'm surprised that if Flexport wanted high reliability, they didn't go to Kalitta.
Regardless, I also noticed that National has customers for 3 additional 747s that it is starting to add.
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