China Award Thread-Merged Topics--

[FlyDCJets]

Other A340's are being looked at, the A340's, 2 Air Jamaica and 2 Air Srilanka, will cost too much for required induction.
Regards
DC

 

[LGA777]

The Air Jamaica birds are the 313X model, they have CN's 048, 216, and 257, the first was delivered in I believe 1999. These are far from factory fresh birds, older than the oldest US 330's.

LGA777

 

[DCAflyer]

The fact that the flight originates in CLT has nothing at all to do with the A340 being based in CLT. Every transoceanic flight we operate now "originates" at an outlying city and has a change of gauge in PHL. The Beijing flight might leave CLT as an E190 with that flight number and switch to the A340 in PHL. In fact, right now, the first flight of the day CLT-PHL at around 6:30am? is a wide-body 767.

IIRC, from reading LCC's application for the China route, the flight originates in CLT as a 767, and the AC type changes to A-340 in PHL.

 

[sfb]

we need to secure gates in phl or else we have to surrender the award. hopefuly this will motivate the phl airport offcialls to keep delta at the e- gates.

US Airways needs PHL to keep Delta in Terminal E to keep WN from expanding there. The "international gate availability issue" is a red herring.

 

[bigbusboy]

As far as I know Air Jamaica do not have A340-300 version only A340-200 's ....
http://www.airjamaica.com/A340.aspx

Go to airliners.net and search for A340-300 and Air Jamaica and you'll find many photos of their A340-300. They actually have three.....I think. According to several of the photographers, these A340's were first built for Air Mairutus (sp?) in 1995 and then acquired by Air Jamaica.

 

[phlus2]

Confucius Say: US Airways + America West = Dim Sum.

Later,
Eye

That's the best thing I've read on this board in a long time!

 

[phlus2]

I sincerely hope they learn how to operate an airline BEFORE they buy another knife, fork or spoon, nevermind the freaking planes. IMO, in its current state of operational dissarray US Airways shouldn't be awarded a new route from DUJ to PHL, much less anything like China.

I can just see it now - all the spare parts are in Phoenix for the planes - and one of them breaks down over in China - and they have to cancel the flight for a week until they can get the part there!

It is rather amazing that this airline can't get a flight from PHL to BOS out on time, but they are going to try this? You won't catch me flying to China on useless airways that is for sure.

 

[BoeingBoy]

They actually have three.....I think.

According to airfleets.net, they had 3. The oldest, serial #48, was delivered in 1994 and was leased by ILFC to Air Mauritius , then to Air Jamaica in 1999, then to Air Canada in 2005, and now to Aerolineas Argentinas next month.

The other two, serial #216 and #257, were delivered in 1998 and 1999 respectively. They were initially leased by ILFC to Air Canada, then to Air Jamaica in 2002.

Jim

 

[bigbusboy]

According to airfleets.net, they had 3. The oldest, serial #48, was delivered in 1994 and was leased by ILFC to Air Mauritius , then to Air Jamaica in 1999, then to Air Canada in 2005, and now to Aerolineas Argentinas next month.

The other two, serial #216 and #257, were delivered in 1998 and 1999 respectively. They were initially leased by ILFC to Air Canada, then to Air Jamaica in 2002.

Jim

Thanks for the clarification. I was reading the captions under each photo and using them as my source.

 

[oldcrow]

This should be a concern for the flight crews that may fly the China route, radiation exposure. One leg based on data from New York to Hong Kong will expose the crew and passengers to approx 63.4 microsieverts which equals to 3.2 chest X-Rays. That equals to almost 200 chest x-rays a year if a crew member flew 3 trips a month for 10 months.

The government recommended maximum radiation exposure is the equivalent of 50 chest x-rays a year. That would mean the crewmembers that fly the China route would be subjected to 4 times the recommended annual radiation exposure just by going to work. This is hazardous duty flying isn't it ?

How do other airlines address the issue of radiation exposure for crewmembers?

Do a google search on "radiation exposure flying north pole". Lots of info on the subject.

 

[Travelpro72]

Oh my God we're ALL gonna glow in the dark. That's crazy though. I never knew that.

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

It will be interesting how the crews like the food.

 

[hp_fa]

How do other airlines address the issue of radiation exposure for crewmembers?

They let the really senior folks bid on it and it eventually helps with their efforts to keep payroll down since they don't last as long flying to PEK then somewhere else.

 

[Travelpro72]

Is this route going to be BOB food and a push pull. Coffee maybe?

 

[Art at ISP]

Oh my God we're ALL gonna glow in the dark. That's crazy though. I never knew that.

Oh great..now they will take the reading lights out too......