Rumor: UPS canceling 767 order?
09-08-2008 | 05:16 PM
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Rumor: UPS canceling 767 order?
Word around the school house is that Atlanta is looking to cut capital expenditures and the 767s are on the chopping block.
Don't shoot the messenger, just relating what I heard.
Don't shoot the messenger, just relating what I heard.
09-08-2008 | 05:23 PM
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Maybe converting them to something else??? 777s? 747-8s? I would be surprised to see them cancel those airframes. I believe we got a good price on them in return for Boeing to keep open the 767 production line while waiting for the Air Force tanker outcome...
09-08-2008 | 05:53 PM
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I try not to listen to rumors until I see something in print. That being said, it would be sooooooooo short-sighted on UPS' part if this was to come true. Those airframes are needed in one way or another.
09-08-2008 | 06:27 PM
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Do they actually like the performance or just the fact that it has no crew rest and its painful to the flight crew....
Maybe Boeing can't get round dials anymore from suppliers and UPS will not have it any other way so the order just gets cancelled....
Maybe Boeing can't get round dials anymore from suppliers and UPS will not have it any other way so the order just gets cancelled....
09-08-2008 | 07:40 PM
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The only way I can see UPS doing that is if they think there will not only be no growth in the future, but shrinkage, instead. I'm not that pessimistic about the future of mankind, and all that, but who knows what they are thinking....
09-09-2008 | 05:51 AM
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