Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Couple active routes added

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Couple active routes added

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
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Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on August 17 2016 08:50 ET by Andrew Vane

Added the following to the schedule

DVH8942 KJFK CYVR B738
DVH6544 KJFK ESSA B752

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA12617
Chief Pilot, A350-900
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Herriman, UT

1,306 legs, 3,026.2 hours
416 legs, 865.1 hours online
1,287 legs, 2,984.0 hours ACARS
25 legs, 78.6 hours event
39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours

Posted onPost created on August 17 2016 13:38 ET by Joe Burner

Awesome, thank you Andrew!!! Hey quick question, how come we don't have many flights out around 9pm and 10 pm and midnight? Just curious?

Joe Burner (DVA12617)

Posted onPost created on August 17 2016 13:51 ET by Andrew Vane

Those flight are usually past my bed time. biggrin

Actually, when I'm grabbing flights to add I get the first one on the list and often these are in the morning since they're chronological. At least you can fly at any time of the day you want here. smile

Actually, if you look at the real world airline schedules, there is definitely a pattern that suits when most travellers like to fly. West Coast US to East coast are often re-eye flights leaving at 9 or 11pm and arriving in the afternoon. Opposite direction flights leave throughout the day to get there in time to turn around and fly back, or to make a connection for further flights west to HI or across the Pacific. Most eastern US flights that go east to Europe leave in the early evening as a red-eye so that they can be turned around and head back to the US late morning for a mid-afternoon arrival on the east coast. The majority of international flights here in CLT are AM flights to the Caribbean with afternoon returns, and early afternoon arrival is when the heavies from Europe arrive, departing in the evening back east. A lot of fairly large airports like Charlotte do not not have any departures or arrivals between 1130PM and 530AM local time. Who really wants to fly or pilot an aircraft through the night if they can help it (or unless they're FEDEX or UPS)?????

Just my 2 cents on what I've observed. I'm sure real world pilots here can weigh in with better more in-depth info.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on August 17 2016 14:35 ET by Joe Burner

Awesome,

Yeah I saw some RW delta flights a while ago that were "red eye" flights. I was wondering about that. I'm about to do my second transatlantic flight right now. smile

DVA8180
Senior Captain, B747-400
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Lynchburg, VA

3,816 legs, 8,894.3 hours
140 legs, 226.6 hours online
3,770 legs, 8,754.2 hours ACARS
19 legs, 30.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 19 2016 00:37 ET by Matt Lynn

Are there return flights for these legs?? or do we have to fly a stealth plane back... lol wink

Matt Lynn

Senior Captain, B747-400

Posted onPost created on August 19 2016 16:04 ET by Andrew Vane

There are returns Matt. I always try to include them so people aren't stuck. smile

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