Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - DVA's Scheduled Freighter Flights

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | DVA's Scheduled Freighter Flights

DVA2919
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Posted onPost created on January 14 2009 21:39 ET by Rick Charles

Let me just say upfront that DVA is the gold standard of commercial passenger service virtual airlines IMHO. With that said, and because we model ourselves on the real world Delta and Skyteam operations, there are several Skyteam partner airlines that offer scheduled freighter service flights which are captured in the DVA flight database. I have verified these flights from several sources including corporate websites and schedules (when available), third party databases, and trusted sources like Flightaware.

So for informational purpose only for those interested (and appropriately rated) in flying some dedicated freighter flights as a nice change of pace, the DVA schedule offers the following:

Air France Cargo (B747-400F): All AF64XX through AF7XXX flights
KLM Cargo (B747-400F): All KL1XX flights
Northwest Cargo (B747-200F captured as -400F in the DVA schedule): All NW9XX flights

Note: Korean Air Cargo and Alitallia Cargo are Skyteam Cargo Alliance members (See: http://www.skyteamcargo.com/en/) that also operate dedicated freighter service but the DVA schedule database does NOT contain flights for these carriers. No other Skyteam Cargo Alliance member airlines fly freighters. Aeroflot and China Southern are members of the regular Skyteam Alliance (but not the cargo alliance for some reason) and fly dedicated freighters. These flights are also not captured in the DVA database. The flights in the DVA database are updated frequently so this information is subject to change as well.

Enjoy!

Rick Charles (DVA2919)

DVA1379
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Posted onPost created on January 15 2009 03:01 ET by Kyle Weber

I'd love to see some MD-11F flights captured in the schedule (especially Korean!).

Kyle Weber (DVA1379)

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Posted onPost created on January 15 2009 17:23 ET by Augusto Casado

Good to know it!! Will do some freighter flights soon!!
Also I aggre with Kyle, I'd love to see the Korean Cargo flights in DVA's Schedule!!

Salud!

Augusto Casado (DVA6540)

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Posted onPost created on January 15 2009 22:07 ET by Jonathan Lippstreu

Yes, I like Korean Airlines. Would always like to see more.

Jonathan Lippstreu

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Posted onPost created on January 15 2009 22:26 ET by Ryan Schmidt

Unfortunately Korean Airlines Cargo retired the MD-11F in 2005.

Ryan Schmidt

Senior Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on January 15 2009 23:23 ET by Kyle Weber

Well, there's always historical flights wink

Posted onPost created on January 16 2009 00:21 ET by Ryan Schmidt

Most likely they will not be added. The reason why the Northwest and Air France/KLM cargo flights are in the database is DVA and AFV simulate their real world counterpart.

Ryan Schmidt

Senior Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on January 16 2009 19:51 ET by Kyle Weber

That's a shame.

Kyle Weber (DVA1379)

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