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So 183 will have couple of hours halt in ANC and leave at 3.59 AM AKDT and arrive KY at 12.53 CDT?
That's the plan. Freight flights splits that Polar Circle route in two, requires less fuel and smaller flight crew as the segments are within the legal limits. Passenger flights do that route as one segment, but require extra flight crew and more fuel but way more comfortable for the passengers.

If the earth is flat, i'm not quite sure how and why they fly that way. :😁:

And it is definitely our plane as it came out of CGO and is now on its way to ANC and on to SDF. Departure scans unnecessary to know that!
 
Very few local centers have any spare space for this (especially in urban and/or real estate scarce areas). Delivery companies are not warehousing companies, for them to operate as such is an economic model that doesn't work.

They may have subsidiaries, etc that do that, but they have a lot more space at WorldPort. Also, there's a reason these sat in China for as long as they did: there is just no physical space at UPS facilities for this volume for the most part, until they're in motion, then they live in aircraft, in sort spaces, and on feeder vehicles until they hit a package car.

Also, I suspect that is the reason Apple delivers on Friday: package volume is much higher earlier in the week traditionally, so, again, that "in motion" space in lieu of warehousing.
Well, I'm just praying nothing gets screwed up in Louisville again and my phone gets left behind and I end up getting it a few days after the delivery date. That was a very frustrating year. :(
 
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45 minutes in up in the air should be any minute. Department scan! Let’s gooo!!!
Personally, seeing the plane in the air after previous scans is enough to know what I want to know.

added: I've seen previous iPhone deliveries where the scans fell several hours and a flight later. Approaching SDF when the ICN departure scan popped up.

But we all know where the planes are and where the phones are.
 
There's still plenty of time! Your iPhone will be in Louisville by tomorrow afternoon. Then it'll depart Louisville on Thursday and be at your door on Friday. I think last year, the iPhones went to Incheon too before going to Anchorage, right @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗?
This is my tracking from last year. I did leave China late though. Appears to have gone from China to Alaska (unless Korea had fallen off tracking for some reason).

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