When Pandas fly ...
 

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Bao Bao (the Giant Panda at the National Zoo) will fly back to China on Tuesday on A FedEx 777.

Are the kilt wearers already in "crew rest"?

National Zoo panda Bao Bao is moving to China - CNNPolitics.com

When pandas fly: Bao Bao is headed to China via FedEx's Panda Express

Panda Express?

Grow uo






Grow up Mayday Mark.

I hear in China, the Panda Express has chunks of real Panda.:D

60% of the time it works every time :p

Wrong direction. Management pilots only do deliveries from China, not to China. No publicity on returning Pandas. Expect Bao Bao to fly through the Memphis hub, like most freight doing a "hub turn" and head to Alaska with a whistle stop in Anchorage. The crews will all be reserves. No one will even take notice of Bao Bao riding on a belt in the hub, heading to the Anchorage flight. :eek::D

According to the CNN Politics article, "Bao Bao will fly nonstop from Dulles, Virginia, to Chengdu, China, in a large crate aboard the custom-decaled 'FedEx Panda Express' 777F aircraft. She will be accompanied by a keeper and a veterinarian."


That means it will be a charter, which means it was put in open time, immediately frozen, and at the perfect time was unfrozen and picked up by ... well, we all know the rest. :rolleyes:






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The Wolfpack!

Wait, no....not enough intl deadheads for them.

trip 2222 on 20feb

And 2223 and 2224.

Flt 9751, 16:20 block, Part 91

23:00 layover before they start, then 20:30 layover before they continue to KIX (again, Part 91, and the RFOs riding as PAX), and then D/H home.





(Wanna see something confusing, look at Seat and Role for everyone on 2222. CAP (seat) is RF2 (role), F/O is RFO2, RF2 is PIC, and RF2 is RFO1. ???? :confused: They're going to be so fatigued and confused when they land in Chengdu, they won't even notice the language barrier. :eek: )







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As I recall, the Kilt Flight was MEM-ANC, twelve hours off, ANC-Chengdu, twelve hours off, then Chengdu to Scotland. And only three of the pilots were legal to fly.....