gearcrankr

FAA registry and planespotters shows 4 757-200 operated by Astar Air Cargo. Any one know who is staffing them? Previous registration of aircraft was VQ-Bxx.

TIA.

gearcrankr

I'm guessing the planes are staffed by EAT as well?

gearcrankr

Strange, on planespotter they show delivery dates of April/May/June 2015. Either way I'm not going back.

airbus300

Operator History

Reg
Aircraft Type *
Airline
Engines *
Config *
Delivered
Remark
OH-LBV Boeing 757-200 Finnair 2x PW2000 (hidden) 19. Mar 2002 leased from ILFC
WL fitted Jun 2007
VQ-BHR Boeing 757-200 Nordwind Airlines 2x PW2000 17. Aug 2010 leased from ILFC
ferried HEL-AYT 17. Aug 2010 on delivery
leased from AerCap May 2014
wfu 22. Dec 2014
std at QLA 24. Dec 2014
N346DH Boeing 757-200 ASTAR Air Cargo 2x PW2000

airbus300

N346DH
Boeing 757-200 (twin-jet)
(B752)

Tracking data for this flight is incomplete and potentially inaccurate.
Arrived
Origin

Basingstoke, England
Lasham Airfield (EGHL)

06/19/2015 04:10PM BST
Scheduled: 04:10PM

Destination

Bangor, ME
Bangor Intl (KBGR)

06/19/2015 04:45PM EDT
Scheduled:

NCR757dxr

N346DH Flightaware Link

757 Registrations

Who has Astar's certificate? Curious if these might go to Florida West/Southern or maybe someone is going to start an Astar V2.0 with the old certificate. I'm 99% sure it wasn't forfeit back to the FAA. ATI has been told to expect one more 757F but that aircraft should be one from Shanghai and AAWW Leasing (just like 588GT).

Twin Wasp

Usually the FAA will revoke an air carrier operating certificate after one year with no operations. Nothing is listed under Astar on the FAA list of current certificates.

NCR757dxr

Was the certificate actually under ASTAR? Similar to Brendan (spelling?) d/b/a USA3000.

Either way it will be interesting to see where these end up.

DC8DRIVER

You know Feg, that's quite a personal slam against group of pilots who, like you, were operating under a collective bargaining agreement and under the direction from management so, in addition to being a grossly inaccurate and unfair statement, it is completely antagonistic and inflammatory.

You may have your version of what happened however, the rest of us have ours. After nearly 20 years of flying DHL core product first under the DHL call sign with DHL Airways, then at Astar, and now at Atlas, I feel that I have a very accurate account of what happened during that whole disaster and it is NOT as you have implied.

I can only guess as to your background, but it sounds like you have yet to move on from that debacle and still carry a huge burden of bitterness and resentment. Trust me, you will be a much happier and healthy person if you focus on the future and not dwell on the past. To be mired down by hate and spite over disastrous decisions made by a soulless corporate conglomerate is a waste of your time.

This is not your first inflammatory post on APC. I won't speculate on why you feel the need to be so contrary, but there is much more to be gained with positive and constructive conversations than there is with the negative stuff.

Rather than getting into the details of that era, it would be much better to let that whole episode remain dead instead of trying to resurrect a rotting corpse. Look toward your future and make the most of it.

For what it's worth, many of us former Astar types have found a home at Atlas and have found that the many ABX types who also ended up here are great guys who are a pleasure to spend time with. As it turns out, we have much more in common than with each other than I would have thought; Not the least of which is the shared realization that none of us had the first ounce of ability to alter the outcome of the DHL/Astar/Airborne disaster and looking toward a successful shared future is a lot nicer than wallowing in the cesspool of the past.

8

FlyAstarJets

Well said 8, well said.

I believe this guy has been outed by the Purple People here as someone who used to go by ***Brain, a FDX poser that has been recently banned I believe. Hence the new registration.