BlueBird Cargo [Archive]

despegue

4th Jan 2007, 12:10

I would like to receive some more insight about BlueBird Cargo, part of Icelandair Group.
Any info. is welcome, feel free to pm. me!

Thanks in advance,

Despegue

WWFF

21st May 2007, 07:45

Hi Despegue

please empty your PM box

Navigator33

7th Sep 2007, 08:16

Would like to bump this one.
Anyone have some info on current ops? routes, day/night, scheduling?

Mir

28th Nov 2007, 09:56

Bumping this one again....

Nobody has any (public) information about them, that they would like to share?

mmeteesside

28th Nov 2007, 11:12

747flyby

28th Nov 2007, 21:31

Bluebird dosent employ anyone permanently anymore. Those who work there on permanent contract are encouraged to apply with Icelandair.
They dont want anyone in the pilots union. They were a independent company which Icelandair Group bought and then things started to change for the worse.

Pay and condition I cannot tell you. However if you have a B737 rating contact them and see what they have to say. I know the Chief Pilot and he is a descent guy. However it seems he is without power about some issues related to contract.

Best of Luck to you.

PS.
Another Company in Iceland is JET X. They are crooks and treat the crew like ****. Everyone is a contractor and the people running crewing are all People Air Atlanta Icelandic laid off recently. Stay away from them. They drive 737-800 as well and you have to bring their own rating. They recently had an incident in KEF and we are still waiting for the outcome of the legality of the crew duty time. They are worse than Ryanair when it comes to treatment of crews. I met this scandinavian captain when coming from a flight in KEF and he had some bad things to say about them. Same seems to be happening with icelandic owned Sterling Airways in Copenhagen. When they merged with Maersk Air all the pilots had to take a paycut and worse conditions followed.

UPSAirOps

30th Nov 2007, 07:15

They fly...

Cologne-Rennes-Jersey-Rennes-Cologne for UPS (BBD????/????)
Keflavik-Cork-Edinburgh-Cologne-East Midlands-Keflavik for (UPS?) (BBD6809/6810)
Stockholm-East Midlands-Gothenburg-Stockholm for DHL (BCS2427/????)

And possibly some others.

JER-RNS-CGN: BBD6837
CGN-RNS-JER: BBD6388

The actual routing of BBD6809 is KEF-ORK-CGN and BBD6810 is CGN-EMA-KEF. They've not been flying into EDI for some time now.

mmeteesside

30th Nov 2007, 18:36

Cheers for the info! Don't suppose you know the arrival/departure times/days for those? Just trying to get more info on the mail/cargo flights around Europe :)

eahlund

10th Feb 2008, 15:41

time for a quick bump.

I am also looking for some up to date information about bluebird. Roster/T&C/crew moral/bases. (not to much info on ppjn) PM if you like :-)
Thanks for the help!