jzuniga

Toccata,
The "driver" was actually the capt. I jumpseated in on yesterday am, from SEA.
He and another guy were at Boeing doing business?

Z

fdx727pilot

I just looked at a "Conversion/Production Master Schedule" dated 8/24/07. It shows 12 more A300 conversions coming with the last scheduled to arrive in 05/09. It also shows 18 of the 19 flying DC10s converted to MD10s by 08/10. Last one is being returned to the Lessor.

As mentioned above, the first 757 will be in service next January, with about 1 per month starting in 04/08. Unfortunately, it also shows only a total of 34 jets with the last delivery in 06/10. Obviously, Fred has not closed the deal on all 87 they said they were getting.

It shows the 77 on schedule with the 1st jet in 07/09 and a total of 15 by 03/11. Given this info is a week old, it may change in the future. I know this document gets frequent revisions.

Say what you will about Fred, but he knows how to buy airplanes. I don't doubt the aquisition department knows where every A300/310, MD11, DC10, and now B757 in the world is, and has an acceptable price tag on it.

AerisArmis

Now you know where all the MD-11s, DC-10s and Scarebus's are too!

http://www.flightglobal.com/assets/g...x?ItemID=18906

Toccata

Interesting. Can you provide the initials of the Capt, if you know them?

MaydayMark

I didn't know we could be assigned crew bus driver duty? Do you know if he was on Reserve or in SUB? Can we make crew bus driver a Disputed Pairing?

Toccata

You're saying you never read that LOA? Never attended the roadshow?

Now I bet you're going to say you did not get to vote on it.....

FDXLAG

Don't worry bus driver duty will go senior, but just in case we will have an inverse seniority non vol plan.

Daniel Larusso

If you dovetail the above info with recent events/info it could become interesting for us. The company has said that they intend to open an -11 domicile in HKG in the future and many seem to think it will be primarily MD-10's over there. In that case we'd have to consider that not only are we losing one DC-10 from we have now during conversion, some of those a/c could be headed overseas meaning less domestic pilot positions(in addition to the 3 man to 2 man thing). The post didn't mention anymore -11's so I assume that no more are in the works officially at this point. The Busses are growth birds in that fleet for sure, but according to some of the mechanics we are short on Bus lift as it is CDG even with the 57's coming so it's not a sure bet that all 12 of those a/c will be US based either. Having FDA's to capture these positions is a great thing, but we could be in for a bit of food fight over a dwindling number of US positions. Probably not a big deal if we weren't overmanned already before even considering Age 65, bit that isn't the case.

Runner

Daniel -

I can see how sending some MD-10s overseas could reduce their availability for CONUS flying, however, that flying still must be accomplished...it can't all go to the trucks. I wouldn't be surprised to see FDX make an announcement for A330F's or maybe even 767-300F's (aren't AMJ's an issue with these?) to pick up the slack on the domestic side. Pure speculation, mind you...

Huck

We're looking at two more, but it's not a done deal yet.