Coming from a Glasgowian 😀 😀 😀 😀

When I saw the title I immediately knew it was going to be either a NW DC-10 or a NW DC-9.

Their mechanics are really good at keeping their planes in excellent shape.

Will this 757 also go abroad, or is this purely for domestic flights.

Another thing to bear in mind when thinking of freight.

A lot of the freight is booked just a few days in advance at best. This last minute booking is very expensive. Only the largest of companies get a pre-assigned amount of cargo space in the hold on select flights. This alone makes the freight biz quite worthwhile I suspect.

Freight contracts have reliability ties which run into big bucks for a delayed or cancelled flights. For the likes of Fedex if your aircraft goes tech or is delayed and the parcels miss their 11am delivery deadline then they are delivered free of charge to the customer- how much do you think that costs on an MD-11 load? That is the reason they have the spares sat on the ground!

Very true!

A freight contract can be worth more than a 100 frequent flyers. The company I work for sends out loads of stuff by air, I’m talking numerous pallet loads here. At times even complete planes. Loosing an account like that would be felt by any airline. Loosing a frequent flyer is bad, but nowhere near as big a deal.

That’s very…. different.

The water is sucked from the taxiway into the engines.

This has to do with the humidity, the suction (power) and how high the engine is from the floor. You will see this at some types more than at others. The 737 gets it more often than a A320 because the A320 has the engines higher up.

The F16 fighter has this very often.

Two return flights daily, but 4 planes? Does this mean that more routes and/or frequencies are planned?