The first A300 has been parked at LGG & is already missing an engine!
A second & third aircraft will join it before the end of the second quarter.
The A300's have a good despatch reliability but are due heavy checks which are VERY pricey!
Some of the 146's will be on their way to Africa soon'ish.
Part of the reason the 146 & 73 dispatch reliability has dropped is due to down route unserviceabilities.TNT had the 'consultants' in last year & they recommended closing the down route maintenance bases as a cost saving,lo & behold they now have flying spanners on board until the outstations can be re-opened!!
The same consultants recommended longer hours/shifts for the mechanics & as they OBVIOUSLY know the industry, I'm sure it will happen:ooh:
Paaaaaaaaah! Flight safety who needs it………..:{
As far as fleet replacement goes a few different frames have been rumoured but nothing writ in stone.

DHL needs 2 F/Os ...check their careers site."

Where do you found this. Do you have a link??

Their Careers page....Ill apply for ya if you want.

Job Advert - Job World Europe

I guess that's an old advert. Deffinately NO hiring at the moment...

And as far I've heard (but we all know about rumours in this business) TNT is getting rid of 30! people (airbus guys) as they can't be placed on the rest of the fleet...
But then again... rumours :)

Heard Emirates will be cancelling the TNT contract. Anyone else hear the same?
bpp

Only bad rumors guys....

Facts :
The Emirates contract is still running and is not going to end
As far as I know, nobody is going to be fired, every pilot will have an offer on another aircraft

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I know from a friend of mine they are still spending $ on the 146 fleet so fingers crossed, no one seems to know for sure the long term fate of the Busses though ? (can't be great though for 30+ yr old airframes ?

What happened to the new Buses rumour of a while back ?

I had a chat with a former colleague, who is now mid-level management at TNT, who said that nobody knows what's going to happen as internal communication is -in his words- non-existing. Apparently the Airbus chief pilot was informed about the grounding of the first Airbus by an email sent to all pilots. Request for information about future redundancies and how they are to be handled are met with silence or waffeling.

It seems -according to my source- that the upper management have decided to create uncertainty amongst their pilots and suppress rumours by encouraging the reporting of same and their originators.

DDR anyone?

I see ABX have started serving LGG-JFK and LGG-YHZ-JFK - is this part of the first step into Europe for them? I assume this flight has something to do with TNT?

Hello!

As further as I know ABX is flying for TNT as Icelandair does.

Anyone can tell me if the whole A300 fleet is going to be retired this year instead of in two years?

Regards!

Ah right thats what I thought. I notice Icelandair only serve LGG-KEF and return now, with only 1 weekly extension to JFK.
Now I'm presuming all the USA stuff goes on the ABX 767 now, so where does that leave Icelandair as they only require 1 757F now? Plus the 2 they have flying on the TNT network that makes 3, so what are the other 2 doing? Maybe TNT will use them to replace A300's? :suspect:

That's exactly what I think but I'll always say that all that flights should be done by TAY/PNR...

Do you know anything about pilots on A300? I Hope all of them are going to be relocated.

Regards!

All talk seems about relocating the A300 pilots, but what is going to happen to the Flight Engineers?

F/E's will be relocated as well but some of them have not pilot license so they will be offered or have been offered to work on maintenance. I don't know conditions...

Regards!

from the news
 

are these nine planes the A300's??


"In response to the business slump, TNT Express has launched a series of cost-cutting measures, including 1,000 job reductions out of some 75,000 – 80,000 worldwide and the decommissioning of nine aircraft from the 46-strong European air fleet. About 300 jobs are being cut in the UK and most of the remainder will be spread across the major European markets, including Germany, France and Italy, CEO Peter Bakker said."

I guess they're not going to bring on any new planes at the moment? :hmm:

future uncertain ....
 

:sad:I heard on the crew room grapevine about the A300 lay up's, speculation seems rife about the 146's but it does seem odd that reliability is being bandied around given the fact that most of these airframes are getting on for 30 years old, surely no one in the real world would expect high reliability from 30 year old airframes unless it's a heavily cosseted classic or they have somehow re-defined the laws of physics where aluminimum alloy DOESN'T try to to return to it's white powder form which doesn't seem very likely !! :sad:

Good luck TAY folks, I was hoping to join you one day as I have friends in Liege but that seems unlikely now. :=

Mistral Air exit by august
 

Heard through the grapevine that Mistral air is retraining their guys on the 737. Contract guys have a contract until august, and by that time Mistral (operating 2 or 3 146-es iirc ) will stop operating for TNT.
What happens to the aircraft, dunno, they are owned by TNT apparently, just being operated by TNT.

ABX
 

At the very least ABX are definitely looking into operating in conjunction with TNT out of Belfast, they've already had negotiations with the handling agents there.

The A300s may be old, and i think some were rescued from the Arizona desert, but in the last year the A300 has only broken down twice or so in Belfast, quite a few other airlines there have had more problems with younger aircraft.

Maximus recruiting A300-600RF crew
 

Just for the info of any of the Airbus crews with TNT - Maximus are recruiting Airbus crews as they will be expanding their operations come 1st June with the award of a new contract Airbus contract for scheduled service operator. Please see www.maximus.aero under careers for details and application process.

A300-600 is not same type-rating as A300/B4 (3 men cockpit) which are operated by TNT

Told friday,ALL A300's gone by October.Only a big pickup in the next 6 months will save them. 5h1te news!