Air France 744 at Dublin

LXFlyer · 07-02-2011 9:47pm #1

What's the main market for the Air France weekly cargo operation in Dublin does anyone know?

I'm right in saying it comes from Chicago and then continues to Paris, but there's no return working?

niloc hgoek · 08-02-2011 7:59pm

Dont no but here is a shot of the beast.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordspotter/4510358923/

Danbo! · 09-02-2011 12:13am

There's 3 threads on the front page discussing the bigger visitors to eidw, this one, the one started the other day and an older bumped thread, perhaps a mod could merge them into one?

LXFlyer · 09-02-2011 9:33am

Danbo - I started this thread as I am asking a specific question about the service - not the aircraft type etc. and I'd prefer if it didn't get lost in another thread.

Surely someone out there must know what the market for this service is? It's very unusual in that it is a one-way flow into Ireland from the USA and has been running for years.

Danbo! · 09-02-2011 10:33am

Fair point, just the other two so

and i've no idea what it carries. You could email AF, but I did that before just asking when the 747 would be in DUB and they said they dont give that info out.

Shmee · 10-05-2011 2:12pm

Went out on Saturday morning April 23rd and got a video of it. This was about 13:15 in the afternoon i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9n3B91AtU0

orionm_73 · 10-05-2011 3:01pm

It's very unusual in that it is a one-way flow into Ireland from the USA and has been running for years.

I guess Cargo is different to passengers in that it rarely needs to return to its starting point, unlike a passenger on holiday or business. But it does seem unusual that the flight is just once a week or so.

castie · 13-05-2011 2:51am

Possible that it operates on a one way track?
Hence why it only ever comes in from the US.

highlydebased · 13-05-2011 9:59am

castie wrote: »

Possible that it operates on a one way track?
Hence why it only ever comes in from the US.

How do you mean?

blackdog2 · 13-05-2011 10:06am

As in a round-the-world-in-a-week trip?

highlydebased · 13-05-2011 12:42pm

blackdog2 wrote: »

As in a round-the-world-in-a-week trip?

That's probably it.

EchoIndia · 13-05-2011 5:06pm

Neon-Circles wrote: »

That's probably it.

The Dublin flight from ORD is the return leg of a Friday evening CDG-ORD service. It's not a round-the-world route.

castie · 14-05-2011 5:45am

EchoIndia wrote: »

The Dublin flight from ORD is the return leg of a Friday evening CDG-ORD service. It's not a round-the-world route.

Yeah so it does DUB->CDG->ORD->DUB on a track going clockwise.

EchoIndia · 14-05-2011 9:57am

castie wrote: »

Yeah so it does DUB->CDG->ORD->DUB on a track going clockwise.

Well, that's one way of describing it.

denisor · 14-05-2011 10:23am

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but would anyone here know if this will be arriving and departing today, and roughtly what times?

EchoIndia · 14-05-2011 10:32am

denisor wrote: »

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but would anyone here know if this will be arriving and departing today, and roughtly what times?

Landed 1030 local, F-GIUA. Planned time of departure is 1205 local but as the inbound flight was running an hour or so late, I'd say it will be later than that.

denisor · 14-05-2011 11:36am

Thank you Sir, do you know it's inbound and outbound flight numbers?

EchoIndia · 14-05-2011 12:22pm

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFR6807
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFR6807/history/20110514/0215Z/KORD/EIDW

denisor · 14-05-2011 12:32pm

Thanks again, I've been tracking that and it says it has left on schedule, would it be accurate, at the airport now! Hoping to see it.

EchoIndia · 14-05-2011 12:38pm

denisor wrote: »

Thank you Sir, do you know it's inbound and outbound flight numbers?

denisor wrote: »

Thanks again, I've been tracking that and it says it has left on schedule, would it be accurate, at the airport now! Hoping to see it.

Can't help you on that. It is a US-based site so the information may be estimated rather than real-time. These tracking sites can be very useful but only show aircraft airborne (the Casper one is 15 minutes delayed unless you subscribe to the site). Both allow you to re-run activity for particular dates and times, which can be very informative.

http://www.flightradar24.com/
http://casper.frontier.nl/eidw/

Air France 744 at Dublin

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