08-13-2022Quote:
Biff,
I'll try to answer your questions, but if we get too far off on a tangent, PM me so as to keep this thread on track with pilot hiring.
Would the sort facility at ANC have to double to accomondate the growth associated with 600 pilots ?
With respect, the real question to ask is what will those additional pilots be needed for. Will it be for additional cities ? a new product to be offered ? a satellite base for an Asian hub so as not to base pilots on foreign soil like FDX is doing in Subic and soon HKG ?
For additional cities, the short answer is yes it will need to double. If the new cities are in Asia then the "feed" coming in from the lower 48 will presumably all show up at around the same time, will be sorted, then loaded and sent West to Asia. The key is, every airplane you send West to Asia, has to return to ANC in a timely fashion to ensure it's delivery elsewhere or it's connection with other aircraft to points beyond SDF/ONT/RFD etc.
New product offering. Let's say UPS offer's a new 3 day air product, or same day air product; essentially a product that would generate a new pushback bank. This would be timed such that the arrivals and departure of this product's bank would not interfere with the current banks and would incur only a small expansion of the sort facility and more shifts to work at the facility.
Lastly, if the projection of 600 pilots is used to satellite them to a foreign pilot base, then it would have little effect on the current sort facility.
In terms of pre-sorting the cans. I thought most of the cans are presorted when they depart SDF. I just dont know the methodology of which boxes go in which cans.
With regards to de-peaking the sort facility, by making rolling arrival banks to alleviate parking congestion. This is a great idea. However, since we offer time specific products, I'm not sure this is a reality. In other words, in order to deliver the packages by 1030am, ALL of the packages have to leave ANC Eastbound to SDF by 8pm ANC and so all the arrivals from Asia have to arrive by 6pm ANC time. I may be totally off base, but our time specific products are based on all the packages getting to a sort facility by a certain deadline, and then having the planes loaded up, and arriving at destination by a certain time.
ANC is unique in that most of the airplanes do not sit idle during the daytime, they fly around the clock. It's just as important to ANC as it is to SDF that the MD11 departing HKG leaves ontime.
Summed up, if the 600 total pilots are for new cities, then yes we would need a larger sort facility. Remember, we only have 240 or so MD/744 pilots based in ANC today. If basing them is for a new product line or for satellite-basing then no, I dont see the sort facility doubling. However, in my humble opinion, I think ANC's pilot growth will be in the form of new cities and new trips, not a new product or remote basing of crews.
Just my two cents worth...I'm sure other opinions prevail.
FF,Originally Posted by FliFast
Maybe Pork Belly Ted will have a stage name from the penitentiary.Biff,
I'll try to answer your questions, but if we get too far off on a tangent, PM me so as to keep this thread on track with pilot hiring.
Would the sort facility at ANC have to double to accomondate the growth associated with 600 pilots ?
With respect, the real question to ask is what will those additional pilots be needed for. Will it be for additional cities ? a new product to be offered ? a satellite base for an Asian hub so as not to base pilots on foreign soil like FDX is doing in Subic and soon HKG ?
For additional cities, the short answer is yes it will need to double. If the new cities are in Asia then the "feed" coming in from the lower 48 will presumably all show up at around the same time, will be sorted, then loaded and sent West to Asia. The key is, every airplane you send West to Asia, has to return to ANC in a timely fashion to ensure it's delivery elsewhere or it's connection with other aircraft to points beyond SDF/ONT/RFD etc.
New product offering. Let's say UPS offer's a new 3 day air product, or same day air product; essentially a product that would generate a new pushback bank. This would be timed such that the arrivals and departure of this product's bank would not interfere with the current banks and would incur only a small expansion of the sort facility and more shifts to work at the facility.
Lastly, if the projection of 600 pilots is used to satellite them to a foreign pilot base, then it would have little effect on the current sort facility.
In terms of pre-sorting the cans. I thought most of the cans are presorted when they depart SDF. I just dont know the methodology of which boxes go in which cans.
With regards to de-peaking the sort facility, by making rolling arrival banks to alleviate parking congestion. This is a great idea. However, since we offer time specific products, I'm not sure this is a reality. In other words, in order to deliver the packages by 1030am, ALL of the packages have to leave ANC Eastbound to SDF by 8pm ANC and so all the arrivals from Asia have to arrive by 6pm ANC time. I may be totally off base, but our time specific products are based on all the packages getting to a sort facility by a certain deadline, and then having the planes loaded up, and arriving at destination by a certain time.
ANC is unique in that most of the airplanes do not sit idle during the daytime, they fly around the clock. It's just as important to ANC as it is to SDF that the MD11 departing HKG leaves ontime.
Summed up, if the 600 total pilots are for new cities, then yes we would need a larger sort facility. Remember, we only have 240 or so MD/744 pilots based in ANC today. If basing them is for a new product line or for satellite-basing then no, I dont see the sort facility doubling. However, in my humble opinion, I think ANC's pilot growth will be in the form of new cities and new trips, not a new product or remote basing of crews.
Just my two cents worth...I'm sure other opinions prevail.
Good info!
Thanks,
Biff
