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FedEx and DHL plane dublin

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  • 19-04-2019 3:04am
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    ted1
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    What’s the story with the two planes in DUB. Bring sitting there for ages. Are there limits on flight Certs and sitting idle ? Are delivers not happening?


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    faoiarvok
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭faoiarvok


    ted1 wrote: »
    What’s the story with the two planes in DUB. Bring sitting there for ages. Are there limits on flight Certs and sitting idle ? Are delivers not happening?

    Fairly sure they fly every night.


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    Phileas Frog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Phileas Frog


    ted1 wrote: »
    What’s the story with the two planes in DUB. Bring sitting there for ages. Are there limits on flight Certs and sitting idle ? Are delivers not happening?

    You see them there every day, yeah? They only fly at night.


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    Tenzor07
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    Was a big delivery off one of the DHL planes during the day this week, army/garda escort for the trucks..


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    coylemj
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    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Was a big delivery off one of the DHL planes during the day this week, army/garda escort for the trucks..

    Conor McGregor sending home his collection of watches in advance of being deported after his next court case.


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    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    Most freight flights occur at night so that their freight leaves major freight hubs like Frankfurt in daylight and the airspace is less busy at night, which suits their type of operation.


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    EchoIndia
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    The main hubs in Europe are Leipzig (DHL), Paris (FedEx) and Cologne (UPS). Liege was TNT's hub but with FedEx having taken over TNT it now sees more of a mix of cargo traffic.


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    billie1b
    Registered Users Posts: 3,804 ✭✭✭billie1b


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Was a big delivery off one of the DHL planes during the day this week, army/garda escort for the trucks..

    Thats the money flight, happens every few weeks/months depending


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    mikel97
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭mikel97


    I was doing some researches and the Irish company Asl are heavily involved in freight.
    Operating for Dhl with heavy Airbus 300-600 and A330-300/200. 737 also. And they do Amazon in Europe and also Tnt with 757 737 747. And And Fedex with Atr.

    Anybody know anymore? Oh yeah and a low-cost in Safrica with 737NG.
    Lots going on with them. Impressed and I just taut it was few 757 with Lingus and 737.


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    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    OP, the terrible truth is that there are some fly-by-nights that hang around DUB during the day :D


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    EICVD
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    mikel97 wrote: »
    I was doing some researches and the Irish company Asl are heavily involved in freight.
    Operating for Dhl with heavy Airbus 300-600 and A330-300/200. 737 also. And they do Amazon in Europe and also Tnt with 757 737 747. And And Fedex with Atr.

    Anybody know anymore? Oh yeah and a low-cost in Safrica with 737NG.
    Lots going on with them. Impressed and I just taut it was few 757 with Lingus and 737.

    There’s a whole ASL Group, Safair in South Africa & a Belgian & French division. The French division is fairly big, they were previously L’Aeropostal & lately Europe airpost operating 737-300s on passenger charters & cargo flights amongst a few ATR & A300 freighters. The Belgian division was previously TNT Airways.


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    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Read all about it : http://www.aslaviationholdings.com/

    The important thing about ASL is that they operate EI-STA, a 737 of a certain vintage :).

    This is how it used to look before they gave it a go with white paint.

    4464076421_89a0154845.jpg


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    Phileas Frog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Phileas Frog


    LXFlyer wrote: »
    Might be an idea to admit you were way off the mark with your assumptions.

    Careful up there, you might fall off.


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    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Jesus, he asked a simple question, that's all. He didn't make any assumptions.


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    LXFlyer
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    Hurrache wrote: »
    Jesus, he asked a simple question, that's all. He didn't make any assumptions.

    I’ve deleted my post as maybe I was being too hard on the OP, but he did make a massive assumption that the aircraft weren’t flying. It wasn’t even a question but rather a statement.

    It tends to be good manners to acknowledge people answering though, which was my main point.


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,260 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    LXFlyer wrote: »
    I’ve deleted my post as maybe I was being too hard on the OP, but he did make a massive assumption that the aircraft weren’t flying. It wasn’t even a question but rather a statement.

    It tends to be good manners to acknowledge people answering though, which was my main point.

    My first line was What’s the story.. that’s a question.
    I wouldn’t say I made a massive assumption. Maybe in your narrow mind it’s a massive assumption.

    They certainly don’t look like they are flying as they are in the sane position every morning I see them
    When I go to work at the airport and in the same position when I come home. They also sit at the same position

    Thanks to the posters who explained they fly at night.

    Some information here about the sale: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/star-capital-to-buy-irish-airline-asl-for-more-than-200m-1.3792918?mode=amp


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    LXFlyer
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    As a tip if you go to www.flightradar24.com, click on the Dublin airport icon, and then select “on the ground” it will list all the aircraft on the ground in the order in which they landed, and if you click on any aircraft it will show you all of the recent flights that each aircraft has made.

    That’s one surefire way of determining whether aircraft have “been sitting idle for ages” or not.


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