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First FedEx B-757
- Thread starter FrankTheTank
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Are they new aircraft? I thought Boeing was shutting down the line.
New for us... Replacing our 727s.. They are Passenger to Freighter converstions.. I think a bunch came from USAir, not sure where all the others are coming from.. Various leasors and such...
Sweet. It will be a sad day when the Jurrasic Jet is no longer in service. What a great airplane. I thought they would never die. I had a chance to fly a charter on one down to Cancun a few years back. It was like going back in time. The flight deck looked just like the E-6 used to.
I don't think it had anything with dying... It had to do with fuel costs.. For the last few years, FEDEX has been using the baby bus (A-310) to cover those lower markets but bigger than 72 markets, but that pays widebody pay; so they were in the process of getting 75s for those markets. But given the cost of gas, accelerating the 757 and replacing the 727 makes more sense... It is a down market and volumes are down a bit, Fuel Costs, Age 65 and others just made the company go into $$$ savings mode and that is why the DC-10 and 727 retirement schedules have been moved up, IMHO... Granted we will get the -10s back as MDs but the converstion will take a couple of years and buys time for the economy to get better...