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sparkie1984

macrumors 68030
Dec 20, 2009
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a small village near London
Watch the show that was made about UPS\FedEx... you'll get it. Humans don't touch the packages. And it's not like they have people sitting in Oakland to hand-pick through the hundreds of thousands of packages. People never see the big picture. They only sort in certain facilities... so it's more cost effective to not open a container full of 99.99% non-Oakland bound packages so it can get sorted and sent to Oakland from the hub.

The show on nat geo?

I saw it, they have planes and everything there don't they? It's amazing fully automated everything has it's own barcodes etc etc etc


Edit: typical now youve posted info on it and I look stupid :D
 

bella92108

macrumors 68000
Mar 1, 2006
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what's the fedex flight # from PVG to ANC? I see mine left shanghai, but i dunno the flight number and i don't see it on flight aware, just HKG and NRT
 

Dr.Seuss

macrumors newbie
Feb 12, 2010
26
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Anyone know the call sign or flight number for the flight from Anchorage to Fort Worth today? Seem's like mine and many others MBA has been sitting in Alaska for a while now.
 

freyrrr

macrumors member
Jun 20, 2010
59
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Oxford
It seems the factory in China can build the BTO machines very quickly, but Fedex or UPS is so slow to deliver.
 

bella92108

macrumors 68000
Mar 1, 2006
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Anyone know the call sign or flight number for the flight from Anchorage to Fort Worth today? Seem's like mine and many others MBA has been sitting in Alaska for a while now.

FLT FDX5092
EQP MD11
DEST Fort Worth Alliance (KAFW)
DEP Mon 04:00PM AKDT
ARR Tue 12:19AM CDT

Remember, just because you live in TX doesn't mean it'll go on the flight from ANC to TX... in fact, it's more likely that it'd go to MEMPHIS, then route to DFW, as backward as that seems. Watch the UPS\FEDEX "why we route as we do" nat geo special to see why... either way it won't affect the delivery regardless of MEMPHIS or DFW direct :)
 

macbook123

macrumors 68000
Feb 11, 2006
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How do you guys find out about upcoming flights, as opposed to airborne ones?

I'm particularly interested in ones leaving Memphis after the one from Anchorage arrives there.
 

bella92108

macrumors 68000
Mar 1, 2006
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Any information about the ups flight from shanghai to europe?

look it up :) flightaware.com

i know it's easier to just post here, but take some initiative. I'm not a travel agent so I'm not going to sit and look up flights for everyone all day. It'll take 2 mins if you go to the website and dig around.
 

freyrrr

macrumors member
Jun 20, 2010
59
0
Oxford
look it up :) flightaware.com

i know it's easier to just post here, but take some initiative. I'm not a travel agent so I'm not going to sit and look up flights for everyone all day. It'll take 2 mins if you go to the website and dig around.

I am sorry. But actually I searched that website for a while, but cannot find any information about their flights to europe, all i found were to/from the U.S..
 

impulsive79

macrumors member
Oct 24, 2010
37
3
Tilburg, The Netherlands
I am sorry. But actually I searched that website for a while, but cannot find any information about their flights to europe, all i found were to/from the U.S..

There is no straight UPS flight from Shanghai to Europe... They work with hubs. The most probable route will be:

Shanghai - Anchorage - Louisville - Philadelphia - Cologne

The Shanghai - Anchorage flight is about to departure within 2 hours.
 

macbook123

macrumors 68000
Feb 11, 2006
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Search their website. It's quite simple.

Well, apparently I'm not smart enough, so after not being able to find it after 5 minutes, I posted the question. I just tried again without success. I only see "Live Tracking" and "Flight Planning" as viable options, neither of which works for me in listing future flights.
 

freyrrr

macrumors member
Jun 20, 2010
59
0
Oxford
There is no straight UPS flight from Shanghai to Europe... They work with hubs. The most probable route will be:

Shanghai - Anchorage - Louisville - Philadelphia - Cologne

The Shanghai - Anchorage flight is about to departure within 2 hours.

OK, i get it, thank you. They do it the other way around the earth.
 
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