FDX Flight Plans
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#12
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2005
Posts: 62
Get ready..it's coming...GOC has new software which will be putting our aircraft as high as possible...MEM-OKC at FL400...my intel says we have a few pilots who think they can save the company money by uncapping the altitudes in the current system...(same guys who thought up the 290 descent)also we will be a Flag Carrier very soon...no alternates...fuel costs are now a top priority...expect less gas and higher altitudes as early as next month...the email from air-ops eludes to this as well...
#16
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Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: Retired
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So I guess that good old Bill McKelvy was right all along. He changed the cost index so many times, the company finally published that FCIF telling us to leave the damn thing alone. The understanding was always it was a balance between time vs. fuel. With the cost of fuel these days, maybe the company is planning on shorter hub turns or earlier departures and arrivals, in order to both save fuel and at the same time, make delivery. Should be an interesting balancing act, but I just can't envision flight plans much above FL 370, as the high and low speed margins get real close together, way up there.
#17
but those guys have dispatch licenses, right??? why are they not dispatchers? If one has to divert because of low fuel, won't that cost more money than havin a little extra go juice and the freight making it?
#18
I contend that if someone would just sack up and divert to NQA, this problem would be solved!
Last edited by HazCan; 05-25-2007 at 09:58 PM. Reason: too many beers, trouble typing
#19
So I guess that good old Bill McKelvy was right all along. He changed the cost index so many times, the company finally published that FCIF telling us to leave the damn thing alone. The understanding was always it was a balance between time vs. fuel. With the cost of fuel these days, maybe the company is planning on shorter hub turns or earlier departures and arrivals, in order to both save fuel and at the same time, make delivery. Should be an interesting balancing act, but I just can't envision flight plans much above FL 370, as the high and low speed margins get real close together, way up there.
Yeah.......the same Mckelvy who thought he could whip out his leatherman tool and do maintenace on the A/C, by himself, no documentation, no license.
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