DHL A300's
 

So just reading between the lines of another thread, thing a bit quite with the A300's at the moment? Just asking because i am concidering a change. Thanks for any gen that might appear,

Happy New year to one and all.

Considering that DHL just cancelled the January 5 course with two weeks notice and have left some guys that had quit their jobs to start with DHL with nothing…..

I do mean nothing, no job, no money, no start date, no nothing…. What a lovely Christmas present and a great start to 09 form DHL LEJ.

So maybe you should consider a different avenue, and it is true as my best mate was one that has been left out in the cold.

thanks for the heads up, any more tails appriated.:eek:

At EAT they try to save money just as every company due to the economical situation. 2 A300 are grounded and will return to the lesser. This is the reason that all the contract pilots will not get a renewal of their contract and the ACL pilots that came with the ACL A300's will also leave the company. It is very said as we loose a lot of good, nice colleagues. This is probably the reason that the course of the guys you mentioned is canceled. I hope good times will return asap and hope it will not get that bad that they will start firing EAT pilots.
Also at the moment, and this for the first 2 weeks of the year about 7 aircrafts are not used due to the reduced business of every new year.

Regards

EAT
 

@caravandriver
The 2 A300 you mentioned are parked since month, so it would have been very easy to inform those unlucky guys due to start their 300 course tomorrow before they terminated their contracts with their previous employers. But: This behaviour of EAT`s management is nothing new. If they need you they kiss your feet and if they don`t need you they kick your ass.:}

Indeed 2 busses are out of the roster now, and the whole airline is flying a reduced shedule until somewhere mid January. Wouldn't surprise me if they keep flying this shedule longer. It worries me a bit because the week before christmas normally is the busiest of he year, not this year...

Are the airbusses parked OO-DIB and OO-DIC leased from Air Contractors?
Grtz

Yep, DIB and DIC are from ACL, and just to correct: DIB was parked already a month ago, DIC only since a week.

@mumsilein49: I never claimed it was a nice move, could be better indeed.

I see OO-DIC is still operating.
It's doing LEJ-LTN tonight.

And latest news is that OO-DIC wil stay till further notice.

And they are now short of captains/FOs & FEs again? GOOD FORWARD PLANNING!!!!!!

OO-DID went to MST on Tuesday to be painted white and then going to the desert, according to maintenance.

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I dont know how i must feel now ....

The AB's are great aircraft, great they can stil fly ... but loading is another question ...
we need most of the time 7 persons to push 1 AAX - AAC Container on the upperdeck ... The planes need a new rollerbed . OO-DLE is terrible and wont be loaded or unloaded anymore at brussels ....

cheers
mav

Mafferick,

Poor maintainance and no Loadmaster will = sh!te rollertrays and ballmats.

Channex's DASA A300's were like a Philipino hand job, smooth and silky :D

However I remember that the DHL bins were the crappiest bits of tin in Europe.

Big Hi to all the "OLD" Channex F/E's and Ginger Beers at DHL....From FFD at the poolside in Dubai .

well poor maintenance... I hope you have some evidence to that as I can tell you that mx at EAT is up to high standard. We never heard anyone complain about roller beds, so we assume them to be good between inspection intervals we give them. If not, just report it and it will be fixed. Of course, if communication goes wrong...

There's only so much one can fix on a dinosaur.

Considering how long the dinosaurs lasted - over a hundred and sixty million years!

Be careful what you wish for !!

The fact that those ball mats are so crappy lately is "the loaders own fault"... Seen the temp's & icing lately, they have been pooring enormous amounts of salt on the steps,
which sticks under their shoes and causes the poor things to get stuck...

Cleaning their shoes would definitely help! It's as stupid as it sounds :)

Maintenance isn't too bad lately, with a big thanks to all the contract company's... Especially seen the resources...

DIC is at the moment still flying (till the end of March?)

I was on the ballmat problem yesterday, first time we got a maintenance request to check those ballmats. Engineering told us that balls were sticking on a new (!) ballmat so they wanted us to investigate that. Well, they did have rust on them and they were all sticking, so something is going wrong here. I still think the biggest problem about them is communication. Loaders are reporting this for ages (we know since yesterday...), maintenance cannot lubricate them, and the people in between these two groups are just laughing at their desks. Well, at least they don't know new balls from rusty ones.
We are forbidden to lubricate them on the spot because this collects dust, so it will only work for 3-4 days, but after that it will worsen. Also, we did lubricate them once, because the containers could not get in otherwise, and we got a delay because the pilots tought there was a dangerous goods spill on the ballmats.

DIB and DID are out. Painted white and stored. Strange because DIB and DIC are two different a/c equipment wise compared to the other airbusses. But I guess they know what they're doing.

I sure that the operations side would like to get rid of the 2 non standard aircraft. ie: OO-DIB & OO-DIC.
However when the bean counters get at the numbers I expect they want to get rid of the two cheapest ones.
Shortest remaining lease time, Least penalty clause, Heavy maintenance due, will all come into the equation.

Heard a rumour that another A/C might be parked and OO-DIB re-instated.

As for ball mat problems, Channel Express engineers used to dismantle and clean the ball assemblies at the weekends in CGN. An ongoing program to ensure reliability.

Our man at LHR knows all about it. They made up some tools to avoid all the bending and kneeling.