Po Boy

Just heard that Tradewinds has just terminated their 747 program, and all crews are furloughed immediately, can anyone confirm? How many 747s did they operate?

Sleeping Freight Dog

According to their website, they have 4 B74Fs in the fleet.

hvydriver

My condolences.

411A

Hmmm, I wonder...perhaps they were pushed into that direction by the FAA.

GlueBall

Having been the lowest ACMI bidder for the Yangtze River contracts conceivably may have burned a hole in their pocket.

Po Boy

Weren't they also flying for CargItalia out of MXP, that could not have helped matters much.

slowto280

It sounds like they may be pulling A300's out of Air Macau also......... Not a good sign.

tonytech2

No FAA problems with the B747 fleet - recent audit of AD records, etc came up clean. It is however, further proof that the day of the B747-200 as a viable freighter is over. Still a place for niche marketing of the A300 freighter, Tradewinds is over thirty five years old started with Connies, going to CL44, then L-1011 and on to A300 and B747. It has survived a lot and may well survive $150 oil. Don't count it out quite yet.

One of the furloughed QC folks

SNS3Guppy

Hardly. It's a sign that Tradewinds is having financial problems.

GlueBall

Tradewinds' website shows that: In addition to Yangtze River [Y8] PVG-ANC-JFK-BOS schedule, they were operating for China Southern [MU] SZX-LUX via ALA and DXB.