FDX 777 bid
12-16-2007, 07:28 AM
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FDX 777 bid
We get our first 777 in 09. When the first bid comes out, I suspect that every Capt award will go to a 60+ guy. If you can't have 2 60+ on an international flight, I wonder how the company will handle the 60+ guys who bid the right seat? I see lots of passover pay and a scheduling nightmare for the company. This could get real interesting.
12-16-2007, 07:47 AM
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We get our first 777 in 09. When the first bid comes out, I suspect that every Capt award will go to a 60+ guy. If you can't have 2 60+ on an international flight, I wonder how the company will handle the 60+ guys who bid the right seat? I see lots of passover pay and a scheduling nightmare for the company. This could get real interesting.
12-16-2007, 07:57 AM
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I suspect you are wrong. What is the incentive to bid it except it is new. Why would anyone want to go from the choice of 400 lines to 10-12 lines even if number 1. No more double DHDs, flying to your home city, the ability to fly to a different area of the world each month, the same pay rate.
12-16-2007, 08:39 AM
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12-16-2007, 08:49 AM
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Yes, I've looked at the bid pack. Looks like a lot of great lines. Read what I said. Plenty of double dhds. Nice lines to my home city, PHL, WRI, DOV or close by EWR, JFK, IAD, BWI. Easy FLL dhds. The 777 would be fun to fly but the number of aircraft will not be high enough until I'm well past age 65. If they change the age to 70 or eliminate it I may have to reconsider.
12-16-2007, 09:15 AM
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Nightmare from another angle
We get our first 777 in 09. When the first bid comes out, I suspect that every Capt award will go to a 60+ guy. If you can't have 2 60+ on an international flight, I wonder how the company will handle the 60+ guys who bid the right seat? I see lots of passover pay and a scheduling nightmare for the company. This could get real interesting.
12-16-2007, 09:28 AM
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How many of the ROPEs were steam guage drivers that never saw glass? A good IQ test would be to see if those gents bid ANY glass. I am NOT old guy bashing here FH.. In my schoolhouse days, it was my non-scientific observation that the difficulty transitioning to glass for the first time was nearly an exponential curve for those closer to "the regulated age". 200% training was more common, more failures, etc... I think the old glass guys would be better off going back to their former MD11 and A300 spots. Many ex steam guage drivers will have a very hard time with this whole mess. "May you live in interesting times."
Last edited by FoxHunter; 12-16-2007 at 09:34 AM.
12-16-2007, 11:27 AM
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