UPS – the passenger airline.

Were the planes were UPS flights, or sjust ome sort of wet lease to an operator?
If so did they use someone else’s 135 certificate?
(Might be disireable for liability issues).

Read the story, UPS set up their own passenger line for weekend travellers only when they were not operating freight flights.

Were the planes were UPS flights, or sjust ome sort of wet lease to an operator?
If so did they use someone else’s 135 certificate?
(Might be disireable for liability issues).

I was at Orlando and was shocked to see a UPS taxi up to an adjacent gate, then de-plane passengers!

UPS used them at weekends to carry passengers, then converted them back to freight during the week. They operated from some pretty obscure places into Orlando.

Off topic, but I saw a brewery lorry in DHL livery, yesterday delivering kegs of beer to a pub !

Not only parcels, UPS used to carry passengers, not many people know that. Between 1997 and 2001, UPS used 727 QC’s on the weekend for people carrying. A great potted history of the company is below.

http://www.airliners.net/articles/read.main?id=66

I remember seeing a UPS 727 parked at the terminal (I can’t remember what airport it was) and thinking how out of place it seemed.

I remember that. Channel express (CARGO ONLY) also did that with 737QC’s thats how they formed JET2 hence callsign CHANEX.