ATA will be operating commercial charters for Adriatic Air Eagle, a tour company, this summer between June and August. The flights will actually be operated in ATA's "new" (kinda an oxymoron, huh) DC-10-30's, and will in fact be the first passenger revenue flight for ATA's DC-10 fleet. The first flight will be operated by ATA's first DC-10, N701TZ, which is supposed to arrive in Indianapolis this afternoon from getting D-checked in San Antonio.
These flights will span 12 weeks and 24 flights. The first flight is June 9 and flights will be on Saturdays (departing), Mondays (departing and arriving) and Wednesdays (arriving) until August 31, 2007.
Here is the flight details:
Saturday
New York - Tirana, Albania (JFK-TIR)
Departing 11:30pm
Monday
Shannon – New York (SNN-JFK)
Arriving 3:55 p.m
New York – Pristina, Kosovo (JFK-PRN)
Departing 11:30 p.m
Wednesday
Shannon – New York (SNN-JFK)
Arriving 4:50 p.m
There will of course be ferry (repositioning) flights for the aircraft, however, those will be at all different times and to all different places, so there is no way to know them this far in advance. These are only the scheduled commercial charters though, and they hopefully will be running on time :P
The ATA DC-10s will unfortunately be in the Northwest color scheme, with the Northwest logos removed. There has been some talk of there being a small ATA logo on it, much like with ATA's L1011's, but I am not sure of that. What I am sure of though, is that for the next year or so, they will not be in ATA's usual snazzy gold color scheme.
I look forward to seeing many photos of it from NYC Aviation members! :D
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