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Carrier Apple.com New 2018 iPhone Pre-Order Thread
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My iPhone and watch are just like yours. Both say “tentative date”. Why. I ordered both in first minute or two. They still say 9/21 delivery. Remaining optimistic
According to UPS, I'm still sitting in ZhengZhou (2:10 crowd). However, I'm not surprised.
Rest assured, fellow excited nerds, that anyone given the 9/21 delivery date after checkout will get it on that day. Before our phones even get through US Customs and get split up to respective shipments to nearby airports, they go through a single scan that accounts for thousands of individual packages. Each package is linked to that scan, but not every single tracking number may be updated until going through customs. For those of us still saying we're in ZZ, they very likely already went through Anchorage but won't see a scan until we're in Louisville and filtered through appropriately.
I assure you I've single-handedly seen this before over the years. I can't wait for Friday!
Rest assured, fellow excited nerds, that anyone given the 9/21 delivery date after checkout will get it on that day. Before our phones even get through US Customs and get split up to respective shipments to nearby airports, they go through a single scan that accounts for thousands of individual packages. Each package is linked to that scan, but not every single tracking number may be updated until going through customs. For those of us still saying we're in ZZ, they very likely already went through Anchorage but won't see a scan until we're in Louisville and filtered through appropriately.
I assure you I've single-handedly seen this before over the years. I can't wait for Friday!
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IIRC, the actual Customs check is in Louisville. Anchorage is just a stopping point and/or swap planes point. I'm no aviation expert, but flying from China direct to Louisville from a logistics standpoint would be inefficient and more risky, especially when they're trying to be efficient and cycle planes in the regions when there's a huge demand for their service.
I think it will continue on CKS859. Scheduled to depart for Louisville at 11:25 pm
Yep, thanks for clarification. For anyone else curious, here's a quote from a NYT article:
From Zhengzhou, UPS, FedEx and other freight carriers typically fly United States-bound iPhones to Anchorage. There, they refuel, before going on to Louisville, Ky., a major logistics hub, or other points in the country.
Found here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/iphone-china-apple-stores.html
And cargo flights are filled to the brim and have a shorter range. A passenger aircraft could likely do Zhouzhou to Louisville, but unlikely for cargo. Every last inch is utilized.
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Same here.
Could be Kalitta Air 859 again. FlightAware says it's continuing on to Louisville at 11:25PM: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CKS859/history/20180919/0715Z/PANC/KSDF
Look at the departure scan time and match it with the flight time
https://flightaware.com/live/iphone
https://flightaware.com/live/fleet/UPS
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I think they're preemptively scanning the tracking. 11:15 PM Alaska time on the tracking is 10 minutes before that Kalitta Air flight is supposed to depart.
It would be a pretty big coincidence if this Kalitta Air 859 didn't actually have our phones. The tracking info seems to match up pretty closely. CGO->ANC->SDF
Preordered one hour after preorder time. Had original delivery date of sep,28- Oct 05 and just got charged. (Iphone x max 64Gb space gray) iphone upgrade program (tmobile)
This is so exciting! First it's landed in Anchorage and now it's already left again! 
Of course once it lands in Louisville we'll all be bored for awhile waiting for the other phones to catch up, but I still love this!
Of course once it lands in Louisville we'll all be bored for awhile waiting for the other phones to catch up, but I still love this!