FedEx sees profit fall, glum forecast
03-26-2008, 05:07 AM
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Got ya, I knew it, I was just testing y'all... 
"Every other commercial airline pilot envies you right now.....enjoy it. You are the highest paid, best vacation, most schedule flexibility pilots around....enjoy it. After all you could be trying to work at US Air"
Very true - except "other commercial airlines" don't have to deal with the over 60 pilots coming back to the front seat - you see their >60 pilots are where they should be - retired...
"Every other commercial airline pilot envies you right now.....enjoy it. You are the highest paid, best vacation, most schedule flexibility pilots around....enjoy it. After all you could be trying to work at US Air"
Very true - except "other commercial airlines" don't have to deal with the over 60 pilots coming back to the front seat - you see their >60 pilots are where they should be - retired...
Please return your seat to the upright position.
03-26-2008, 07:20 AM
#22
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The only true winners here are the guys over 60 AND pilots who are already secure in the left seat - in other words those who aren't risking getting bumped from the left seat. For them, the new rule means an additional 5 years of making well over quarter million dollars a year - no wonder most of them are OK with the new rule.
This thread is not really about age 60 debate but since you’re comparing apples to oranges I had to reply…
03-26-2008, 08:09 AM
#23
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You're right Sideshow. I wasn't trying to bait Jetjok, I was just pointing out that I think it's a little naive to think that 4 mos. into a huge change to everyone's careers that was great for some and not so great for a lot more, that people are just going to forget about it and move on. Especially in a downturn and working for an airline that claims it's overstaffed.
The only group of humans that hold grudges over pretty much anything more than pilots (regarding loss of seniority/seat status) are women
. So imagine if you will a woman pilot who loses her captain seat because of a geezer! Duck and cover for 20 years. 
Seriously...look at the grudges still festering to this day (in no particular order/magnitude):
Reno Air/AA/TWA
USAir/Piedmont/PSA/AWA
Allegheny/Mohawk
Capitol/UAL
NWA/Republic
Flying Tigers/FDX
DAL/Western
SWA/Morris (maybe not so bad)
And there has to be many others I have forgotten. Imagine the mythical national master seniority list and the grudges that would create!
03-26-2008, 01:15 PM
#24
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wow.... joined yesterday (3/25), most posts are flame worthy (next contract offers, FDA's) - but you speak as though you're in the "know" with both management and union.. Only person like that is DW as he'll be our next VP of flight ops
. If they furlough, our system couldn't support the 48/68 hours schedules. They would just STV rather than furlough... But I'm sure you'll answer this with a "just wait and see..."
Oh not to mention that by the time/cost it would take to get everyone retrained.
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