Can Greasing & sealing the ballmat be considered.
regds
MEL

Hawk, greasing is probably the worst thing you could do as all the crud then sticks to the balls & makes it worse after one load sequence. Also you can't seal the units completely as they need to rotate & go up & down to absorb shock/weight.

There has always been a problem in the winter with those ballmats but this year has been the worst and maintenance can't keep up, either with the amount of work or spares provision. One example was mat changed one weekend & reported as bu**ered by Wednesday!

RT

Correct about the sealing and greasing as I said before. the changed mat you talk about is the same problem I described, and it was not a new mat. Letting maintenance change an old mat by another old one doen't solve the problem.

Only way to solve this is to chance the ball unit.
and your pallet is going to fload..

So what's the latest on the A300s?

Latest news is bad news. 2 More A300 are stopped:\, 8 upgrades go back in the right seat:ugh:, 16 Fo will be fired together with 8 Fe:{.

Sadly it looks like they are going..going..almost gone. Bit surprised as they were good workhorses and not that expensive to run.

BTW,

anyone who knows where the 5 LUFTIE A300-600 went (feb 09)?

thx

it is very sad news about lossing 2 more A300. I survied lossing my job, this time.

Do you know about any other plans to reduce the number of A300's?

My friend who is a F/O with DHK told me that OO-DLN and OO-DLP will be transferred to DHK as all the horse charters are being done by them this summer. He said they had also delayed taking the EAT pilots who are going onto the B767 until the third aircraft arrives. All this does not sound to good for the Boeing guys, lossing aircraft and having to many crews.

I hope there is no more bad news for EAT. Why do DHL keep attacking EAT and DHK seems to never be effected?

I just want to fly and do my job but it is difficult with all this bad news.

eurotrans
Sad times indeed
Not heard the rumour about DHK doing horse charters, let alone 2 aircraft.
The flexibility within the network easily allows DHL to plonk EAT aircraft at the right place and right time so it makes no sense to me?
The Boeing guys will come in for the 3rd aircraft, why not? They are type rated so it doesn't take long this was always the idea. Not so for the A300 pilots who are coming earlier.
Attacking EAT and not DHK, just bad luck, bigger planes, different leases etc. DHK have suffered but not so significant/public compared to EAT (DHK is a different airline to EAT, out sourced Engineering etc)
Just got to keep head down and hope the grim reaper doesn't turn up :\

Yep, sounds as one of the many rumours that are spread. The same as the one I heard 2 weeks ago, just before the announcement of the 2 A300 going away, that DHL bought another 16 B757's from BA.
It is on the other hand told by people that went recently to AUH for maintenance that a total of 6 A300 are planned to go away depending on the economical situation. 4 Left already so if this info is correct 2 more might go.
Also the heavy maintenance will be transferred from AUH to Dresden.

Regards

The 2 aircraft configured for horse charters are OO-DLN and OO-DPJ.
I doubt very much your information is correct regarding the horse charters.
As far as I know EAT crews will join the 767 operations around September according to the last meeting.
Getting rid of 757s would make no economical sense due to long term lease contract etc..The A300 is another story of course.

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Hello

OO-DID is parked at brussels and missing some big pieces like the left engine and so on .

what ? 16 ex-BA 757's ?? were did you hear that ???

ken

DHL wants actually to get rid of the B757 and replace them by the B737F.

OO-DID in BRU gets a new engine in this week. It will go back to the leasing company flying for another company. It is held in flying condition despite what you think of loosing that engine earlier.
So what busses are gone now?
DID, DIC, DLY and? DIB?

About the BA 757, nothing heard about that. Openskies however, operating under BA, wanted a few of the ex-BA aircraft and this deal did not go further because BA saw a potential client who would buy a complete batch at once. It was in Flight magazine, correct me if I remember this wrong.

It's funny how everybody hears a different story...

Anyway here's mine,
757's from EAT to DHK looks unlikely but on the other hand does make sense in the economical point of view (lower costs at DHK and maybe now with the weak pound...)

2 more A300's are "confirmed" UNless this crisis picks up again... If you can believe maintenance (who always know more imho) , probably May...
To avoid collective dismissal laws in Belgium it's in their best interest to wait till EAT's new 'quartal' (whatever the correct English word might be...) Which is around that period...

Whatever way you see it , this is also a sneaky way to force people to be lej-based in order to climb up seniority list and all that...:yuk: (as they don't fire lej-based people)

And about those 737's , won't be operated by EAT or DHK but Swift or Bluebird...

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i only know and seen that they took pieces out the DID to keep the DLW flying on the EMA-BRU-EMA line .

a boeing 737 is now flying on the VIT-BRU-VIT line .

when can we expect the 767s ? as i heard a pilot telling he was going for the training on it .
heard that the 767s wil fly on the BRU-LOS-BRU runs .

Latest info is that the 1st B767 will arrive in August & operate BRU/LOS/LEJ/BRU to replace current WO MD11. No firm dates on the next 2 but should be before end of the year.

RT

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also heard yesterday that the flight JFK-BRU-EMA-JFK wil be stopped as from may , doesnt look good for my job ... when this plane leaves brussels then we have a mayor issue here !

ken

Quote: as they don't fire lej-based people

The first 3 of us to go were ALL LEJ based - so that's BS for a start.