We’re all still ravenously following the progress of our G5s, over at the
Mac Rumors thread. The thread has surpassed forty pages and a thousand posts. Evidently the first batch of five hundred G5s was shipped over the weekend from Shenzhen, China. A poster named
Nachodog provides the following informatio:
I just talked to a friend who is a pilot for Fed-Ex and here is what he found-out after logging in to Fed-Ex from home.
There is one flight from SHENZHEN CN a day.
It is approximately an 8 hr flight to US
SHENZHEN CN. is 13 hrs ahead of central US time.
Today at 1:00 PM Central US time, Aug. 3 / it is 2:00AM Aug. 4 in SHENZHEN
The Fed-Ex flight left China at 8:23 PM Aug 3 SHENZHEN time.
as I type this (1:00 pm Central) the plane has been in-flight 5.5 hrs.
The plain is scheduled to land in Memphis about 4:00 PM today.
Here is some other info from his experience.
-Daily international routes are more frequently changed and canceled if the plane is not full enough.
-Packages are generally scanned as they are unloaded, but pallets of packages from the same shipper my be scanned when separated.
-The accuracy of there real time tracking info is considered the best.
-There are some daytime flights, but the vast majority are at night, the main package sort is afternoon for that nights flights.
