Question for Fed Ex pilots
03-16-2006, 07:39 AM
#2
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Joined APC: Jan 2006
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Depends upon which fictional management story you care to believe. I forget which I heard first, but one supposed option was to replace the 727 with 737s from USAirways. Then we heard (or was it the other way around...it's been told so many times that I forget...) the 727 replacement was the 757. And it has flip flopped ever since. On our company web site where we post our equipment upgrade desires, there is a place holder for Memphis-based 737 but it is just that, a place holder. A Memphis-based A380 has been a place holder on that page for the last five years.
Guys who have been with the company a lot longer than I say they've heard of a 727 replacement "just around the corner" now for many, many years.
Guys who have been with the company a lot longer than I say they've heard of a 727 replacement "just around the corner" now for many, many years.
Who knows??
03-16-2006, 02:42 PM
#4
Down, 3 Green
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: MEM A300
Posts: 103
Two cents worth...
Actions speak louder than words ... the additional A300s/A310s that keep showing up might just be OUR BOEING REPLACEMENT. If the 'Bus can do BUR, then HTS and ROA might be down the line....
Besides, why create a whole new training pipeline when you can eliminate one (and enlarghe an existing one)?
Besides, why create a whole new training pipeline when you can eliminate one (and enlarghe an existing one)?
03-16-2006, 07:32 PM
#5
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Originally Posted by NightBusDriver
If the 'Bus can do BUR, then HTS and ROA might be down the line....
You 'bus guys better be careful or you are going to start coveting the really cherry 727 layovers like Flint and Grand Forks!
03-16-2006, 08:03 PM
#6
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Originally Posted by Beertini
Some people like the short runways, fog and LDA approaches that those airports frequently offer--I don't happen to be one of those folks. Nice cities, but potentially challenging airports.
You 'bus guys better be careful or you are going to start coveting the really cherry 727 layovers like Flint and Grand Forks!
You 'bus guys better be careful or you are going to start coveting the really cherry 727 layovers like Flint and Grand Forks!
03-18-2006, 03:23 PM
#8
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Originally Posted by JMT21
Ahhh, c'mon Grand Forks isn't that bad is it?
I only "visited" GFK on reserve--YWG/GFK/MEM so I can't honestly tell you what the town is like. The beautiful thing about places like GFK or Casper or Witchita is you are in and out--no traffic! I would much rather do an out-and-back to ICT than ATL.
Let's look at this from a hotel perspective though...the Comfort Inn
in Flint or the Concorde 
in CDG...hmmmm...
03-18-2006, 03:53 PM
#10
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Long ride in, long ride out
Originally Posted by Beertini
............Let's look at this from a hotel perspective though...the Comfort Inn in Flint or the Concorde in CDG...hmmmm...
in Flint or the Concorde in CDG...hmmmm...
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