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Old 09-05-2011, 04:38 PM
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I was just wondering if you guys are still carrying lithium batts. Rumor at my airline is that you have both stopped carrying them which may explain why on a nightly basis I sit on top of 50 tons of them.

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No chance of that, too much money to be made...
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Actually we are putting in fire suppression systems so we can carry lots more.
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We're going to start getting marshmallows so we can sit around the fire and reminisce on the way down. Joke...sort of.
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I was just wondering if you guys are still carrying lithium batts. Rumor at my airline is that you have both stopped carrying them which may explain why on a nightly basis I sit on top of 50 tons of them.


Rumor is that your airline is going under!

Rumor only!
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Actually we are putting in fire suppression systems so we can carry lots more.
That's scary, not an easy fire to put out if it's just one, let alone a ton of them.
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I was just wondering if you guys are still carrying lithium batts. Rumor at my airline is that you have both stopped carrying them which may explain why on a nightly basis I sit on top of 50 tons of them.

That rumor is not true. I just carried two large boxes of them.
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FedEx was carrying them last month - they didn't actually know they were carrying them though.

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