Stuck in Zhengzhou...

[jehrler]

It was more to the person you were quoting. Do
not rely on flightaware to show all aircraft movements on that segment. And don't track passenger flights if trying to stalk your phone. These are all shipping on dedicated wide body cargo airplanes (767, A300, 777, 747 or MD11).

 

[bkribbs]

Thank you both! I haven't been tracking planes. I've been watching times for scans but that's about it.

 

[jehrler]

It wouldn't be Korean Air, which is passenger service, not freight service.

KAL does (or did) have pure freight operations but the ones I saw on flightaware were not.

 

[imageWIS]

Yeah I changed the shipping address to my work address for that exact reason. That way my company's mail team can deal with signing for it, plus corporate addresses get earlier deliveries don't they? My office building has it's own zip code... that's gotta mean something right?!

Which building?

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UPS had a press release posted in these forums elsewhere that had announced new service with 767 from zhengzhou to incheon. They don't publish their schedule so think that causes flightaware issues overseas (no direct atc feed).

Can't imagine they would or could put pallets of phones into 737s or A320s. For this kind of mass movement you want a cargo aircraft.

Well, they used FedEx 777 Cargo's for some of the initial launch day phone shipments.

 

[Tom G.]

My phone, scheduled for delivery on 9/25/13, left Zhengzhou China at 3:55 AM Chicago time this morning.

 

[DanUC6]

My phone, scheduled for delivery on 9/25/13, left Zhengzhou China at 3:55 AM Chicago time this morning.

Same here. Let's find that plane!

 

[ethanlee]

Bye Zhengzhou

Finally in Incheon. Looks like my phone has already missed two trips of UPS99 to Louisville. Ah well, it'll get here.

 

[zzoomp09]

looks like it missed the UPS99 flight... there are tons of KAL and OZ Cargo flights in the next 3 hrs tho so it should still make it, if UPS or Apple has arrangements with them

 

[SonoViva]

looks like it missed the UPS99 flight... there are tons of KAL and OZ Cargo flights in the next 3 hrs tho so it should still make it, if UPS or Apple has arrangements with them

UPS99 hasn't taken off yet, according to flightaware... Yesterday, they held the plane until 10:37 KST. Our phones will be on it!

 

[ttNB]

Ordered 3:08 in Korea right now, scheduled Wednesday end of day... Jersey

 

[jehrler]

Checked the Incheon website and it too says the UPS flight has not yet departed.

http://www.airport.kr/airport/flightinfo/IhCargoDepStatusList.iia?gubun=E

 

[ewils19]

My UPS tracking now says that my phone is "In Transit" now from Incheon.

 

[mallow]

Stuck in Korea now!!! Lol

 

[jehrler]

BTW, for anyone following the ZhengZhou flight to Incheon in the future, the Incheon web site has cargo arrival info as well:

http://www.airport.kr/airport/flightinfo/IhCargoArrStatusList.iia?gubun=E

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My UPS tracking now says that my phone is "In Transit" now from Incheon.

I wonder if "In Transit" means the pallet has been scanned/loaded onto the plane prior to departure. Would make sense given the flight appears to not have departed yet.

 

[ewils19]

BTW, for anyone following the ZhengZhou flight to Incheon in the future, the Incheon web site has cargo arrival info as well:

http://www.airport.kr/airport/flightinfo/IhCargoArrStatusList.iia?gubun=E

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I wonder if "In Transit" means the pallet has been scanned/loaded onto the plane prior to departure. Would make sense given the flight appears to not have departed yet.

I'm guessing that's it. My sister's phone (we ordered at the same time but not in the same order if that makes sense) hasn't updated to that, and our tracking has been the same since the 9/23/13 5:30 PM departure scan in Zhengzhou.

 

[jehrler]

Incheon site reports that 099 departed an hour late at 10:54 PM local.

Should be popping up on flight aware shortly.

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And it's up on flight aware:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS99/history/20130924/1255Z/RKSI/PANC

So closed up and pushed back at 10:54, wheels up at 11:04. Ten minutes of taxiing...not bad.

 

[ewils19]

That's interesting, flightaware says that the flight is "on time". I guess they can make up that lost hour in air?

 

[zzoomp09]

Incheon site reports that 099 departed an hour late at 10:54 PM local.

Should be popping up on flight aware shortly.

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And it's up on flight aware:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS99/history/20130924/1255Z/RKSI/PANC

So closed up and pushed back at 10:54, wheels up at 11:04. Ten minutes of taxiing...not bad.

took off 5mins ago... but UPS status still hasn't changed to "departure scan"

 

[ttNB]

I live in NYC, my Silver 64GB Verizon phone has been in China all day, and UPS tells me I'll have it by end-of-day on Wednesday

Hey neighbor me too! 64gb black

 

[Gjwilly]

So am I reading this right?
It should arrive in Anchorage at 1:30PM Pacific time (12:30PM AKDT)?

 

[jehrler]

That's interesting, flightaware says that the flight is "on time". I guess they can make up that lost hour in air?

They put in a fair amount of fudge factor in the schedules. But, as of now, flight aware is showing it in 17 minutes late.

As an aviation geek, note that flight aware is usually optimistic on arrival times as they seem to not have the algorithm worked out well enough for the slow down for approach/landing.

Still, it's usually within 15 minutes, absent atc delays/weather.

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So am I reading this right?
It should arrive in Anchorage at 1:30PM Pacific time (12:30PM AKDT)?

They are calling it currently at 12:48PM AKDT and 1:48PM Pacific, but yup that is the general gist of it.

 

[z3r0day]

If the destination is LA, do they send the package directly from Louiseville to LAX? I do see a couple of UPS flights on this route.

Mine got scanned in Korea. Hopefully made that 099 to Anchorage...

 

[bkribbs]

took off 5mins ago... but UPS status still hasn't changed to "departure scan"

Hopefully it's delayed. It was a little yesterday at least...

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Oh there literally just now, departed from Korea! A bit ahead of yesterday iirc

 

[z3r0day]

Departure scan from South Korea!

 

[bkribbs]

Should be in alaska fairly soon!