Clue32

Pleasantly surprised. Sticking on the 767. Not even close to being displaced off the Jet to the 74. I know there will be bid adjustments over the next few days, but safe to say, no 3 month trips to MIATC over the holidays for this guy.

C17B74

Fantastic and Congrats. Flown with a couple of newish 74 Capts and it looks like they're staying put at this point which is great news. Sounds like effort has been made to minimize damage as best possible.

SealingStemBolt

Yep very pleasantly surprised with this whole deal. Can't help but wonder if the reason the reallocation bid was so "generous" is because there's another shoe that has yet to drop. Especially when you see how massively overstaffed the 747 FO side will be. Makes me think there's more 74s on the way.

When you think about it, it makes sense. Amazon might have been just good enough to not walk away from but if there's a big deal on the horizon (or several smaller deals) you now have an offramp to get away from low-margin Amazon without having to worry about what to do with all the staff. Now to just see what cards are being held close to the vest.

notthesame

My in-base seniority looks like its actually going to improve and not insignifigantly. I'm looking forward to seeing how the flying on the 74 will be allocated with the much larger lower-48 bases.

C17B74

This has been in the works for awhile - 43XGTs are coming on line if not mistaken. That's four aside from the 777 sourcing. Management indicated the shift towards large cargo aircraft from the onset of this transition and they're proving they're not laying around for them to fall in their lap. 777s definitely the focus, but it doesn't seem they're bypassing any 74 opportunities which makes sense just based on maintaining an initial flux of crew numbers.

Those below may be two additional birds or part of the previously mentioned four. Can't find any of the other two if part of the original four. Hmmmm.

"Atlas Air has acquired a pair of factory 747-400Fs that China Airlines retired from service in 2023. Jetran sold the two 2002-vintage freighters (30766 and 30767) to Atlas Air on May 10 after purchasing them earlier in 2024."

astray

2 from China Airlines, and 2 from Silk Way.

zerozero

And does anyone know if these next -400s are going to replace any of the BCFs or can we consider them "growth" airframes?

astray

Last I heard, one BCF is getting retired. Not sure of the tail number, maybe 473?

JohnnyBekkestad

God please let out be true!!!
I’m flying that POS from Atlanta to Incheon in a couple of days. I bet the APU is still broke, won’t be fun in Atlanta.

dera

Last I heard was only 1 BCF getting retired. One is about to hit a D-check as a matter of fact, so it will be a bane of our existence for a long time.