New airplane in the skies
Look out for a B767-300F colored White and Gray on the fuselage and with a Green/Yellow/Blue tail. ABSA has just received its brand new (1 year old fresh from the factory) airplane and operations have started last 19th with a VCP/SCL/MIA/CNF/VCP flight. Our group is made up of former TBA, TAM, Itapemirim, ABSA DC8 and BRA pilots (14 captains and 7 1st officers). Plans were laid out for a 2nd B767 for 2003 and a B747-400F for 2005. Rumors have it that the second B767 may be arriving sooner than expected (hope so...). Our callsign is ABSA CARGO ....Our routes will cover So. America to Miami from VCP, SCL, BOG, CCS, MAN and SO. AMERICA TO Europe starting with Paris CDG. This is one heck of a fine tuned group which has been working since last October helping to implement the operation, giving simulator instruction, working on the manuals, SOP and so on. Mighty glad I´m part of it and looking forward to see more friends from our ailing TBA come on board.. .Regards to all ppruners