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UNITED 747-400 N197UA domestic flights?
Looks like N197UA B744 has been doing a lot of domestic flying lately anyone knows why? Army charter my best guess..... (flightaware.com) Mehr...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Imagine being a business traveler at Dane County regional yesterday heading to Chicago. You think you are going to be stuffed into the back of a CRJ100 but instead there is a 744 at the terminal. I bet a plane that big looks strange at that airport.
No business Traveler got on that trip to Chicago. Pilots and Flight Crew only.
No business Traveler got on that trip to Chicago. Pilots and Flight Crew only.
Rick kind sir? Are these not your words?
Rick kind sir? Are these not your words?
Yes. It took the Football team and or Band from Orlando to Chicago and then flew with no passengers to the Home Base in Chicago.....
The cost of the flight from Chicago to get the team, and, the cost from the destination (lets say Dade in Madison) to Chicago is called a "Re positioning Flight) and is factored in to the cost of the Charter.
Do you think, for one iota of a second that the President of China (for Example) would get on a US Plane where the CIA would wire tap the entire cabin???????????? Forget China - what country does not have their own planes for such travel?
Correct! It would be pointless putting a 744 on the sched (for one flight/day) for such a short flight and have all the time it needs to sell the seats with the complete unknown of what charter flying is actually all about. That is to say, we go when the customer tells us to go. Not when a schedule tells us. (side bar: keeping schedule and having a schedule are two different things in the charter business). Also, there might not even be any lqiuor on the plane.. tell that to a F/C customer to ORD that there's no booze and honestly, there's no food either since we didn't lift anything at Dane.
NFL team planes are repositioned empty after every game return. Packers fly Delta and after they arrive at Austin Straubel, it ends up empty later that day or night at MSP or DTW.
NFL team planes are repositioned empty after every game return. Packers fly Delta and after they arrive at Austin Straubel, it ends up empty later that day or night at MSP or DTW.