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Old 04-18-2022 | 04:20 PM
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I should have been more specific. I know the UPS peeps fly to Europe, layover, then do a few night sorts before heading home. Does the 777 do that type of flying or fly into a few big cities and go home?
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Old 04-18-2022 | 06:13 PM
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Not typically, we get the stuff there, then they sort it out while we go rest for the next long haul (typically). There’s very little hubturns in the Triple, if that’s why your asking.
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Old 04-18-2022 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Gilligan13
Does the 777 fly mostly red eyes?
depends on what part of the world you’re launching from and which direction you’re going, and whether you were AM launch or PM launch… and what you define a redeye to be.

it’s pretty cush flying though.
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Old 04-23-2022 | 08:27 AM
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Is there only a handful of locations the 777 flies into?
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Old 04-23-2022 | 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Gilligan13
Is there only a handful of locations the 777 flies into?

No.. the 777s fly all over the world. Much more than a handful.
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Old 04-23-2022 | 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Gilligan13
Is there only a handful of locations the 777 flies into?
A few handfuls, maybe. It’s a trunk aircraft so for the most part it sticks to the following cities.

SYD CAN HNL OAK SEA ONT DFW EWR IND STN EMA MEM LGG CGN FRA CDG MXP DXB JNB SIN DEL BOM TPE ANC KIX PVG SZX HKG ICN NRT CRK AKL

if you want more diverse flying, the MD-11 is (for now) a better bet, as it goes almost all of those places and many more.
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Old 04-23-2022 | 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by threeighteen
A few handfuls, maybe. It’s a trunk aircraft so for the most part it sticks to the following cities.

SYD CAN HNL OAK SEA ONT DFW EWR IND STN EMA MEM LGG CGN FRA CDG MXP DXB JNB SIN DEL BOM TPE ANC KIX PVG SZX HKG ICN NRT CRK AKL

if you want more diverse flying, the MD-11 is (for now) a better bet, as it goes almost all of those places and many more.

I’m not sure what you mean but aren’t all aircraft operated by FedEx express “trunk” aircraft?
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Old 04-23-2022 | 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by FXLAX
I’m not sure what you mean but aren’t all aircraft operated by FedEx express “trunk” aircraft?
By FedEx definition yes.

But as far as the typical airline definition, not so much.
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Old 04-24-2022 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by threeighteen
By FedEx definition yes.

But as far as the typical airline definition, not so much.

Actually, the term trunk goes back almost a century, before FedEx existed. FedEx has just co-opted the term for themselves, which I thought was silly when I first heard it used here (hence the reason why I put trunk in parenthesis). The term trunk referred to the original dozen or so airlines in the 30s. At least that’s what I learned from my college air transportation class three decades ago. So to use it now just for our 777 is even more bastardized. Anyway, if you go to the flight schedule page, it has two options, trunk and feeder. And feeder doesn’t refer to 757s and 767s or A300s.
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Old 04-24-2022 | 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by threeighteen
A few handfuls, maybe. It’s a trunk aircraft so for the most part it sticks to the following cities.

SYD CAN HNL OAK SEA ONT DFW EWR IND STN EMA MEM LGG CGN FRA CDG MXP DXB JNB SIN DEL BOM TPE ANC KIX PVG SZX HKG ICN NRT CRK AKL

if you want more diverse flying, the MD-11 is (for now) a better bet, as it goes almost all of those places and many more.
I didn’t realize the MD was flying that much on the international side.
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