Originally Posted by threeighteen (Post 3411195)

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.

Originally Posted by Gilligan13 (Post 3411569)

I didn’t realize the MD was flying that much on the international side.

Originally Posted by ItnStln (Post 3411664)

Is it DFW or AFW?

Originally Posted by FXLAX (Post 3411567)

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.

Originally Posted by threeighteen (Post 3411693)

yeah my point exactly. 757s, 767s, A300s are (mis)labeled on the schedule page as trunk aircraft but the nature of the flying they do is rarely trunk in nature. They do more spoke/branch type flying.

CDG-MEM or KIX-MEM = trunk route

BOI-RNO not so much.

Originally Posted by threeighteen (Post 3411691)

777 goes to DFW if/when it goes. MD-11/10 fleet does DFW and AFW.

Originally Posted by threeighteen (Post 3411195)

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.

Originally Posted by FedEx Pilot (Post 3417813)

777 only has MEM and ANC base. HKG base is closing May ‘23, CGN will be our only FDA.