LOA talk at FDX
#31
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: MD-11
Posts: 395
Albie,
As much as I respect your insight on horse boarding and the respective "margins are too low to warrant the headaches"...I can't believe that I'm hearing this from you.
I don't need individuals representing me that are looking out for the companies profits...THEY pay alot of people, quite well, for that. I'm looking for a representative that will try to eke out the last friggin' penny for me, that the company will take from someone else. I don't give a crap if it's a manager, a driver, a mechanic, customer or friggin' shareholder!!! They just raised the GD dividend, again. And, you're trying to tell me to suck it up? The company's margins are down? Give me a friggin break!! You're suppose to represent our interests!!
I'd bet that the increased dividends were probably covered by the optimizer.
As much as I respect your insight on horse boarding and the respective "margins are too low to warrant the headaches"...I can't believe that I'm hearing this from you.
I don't need individuals representing me that are looking out for the companies profits...THEY pay alot of people, quite well, for that. I'm looking for a representative that will try to eke out the last friggin' penny for me, that the company will take from someone else. I don't give a crap if it's a manager, a driver, a mechanic, customer or friggin' shareholder!!! They just raised the GD dividend, again. And, you're trying to tell me to suck it up? The company's margins are down? Give me a friggin break!! You're suppose to represent our interests!!
I'd bet that the increased dividends were probably covered by the optimizer.
#32
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 55
Gee how about world peace and an end to hunger? I'll bet your for those too. Reread my post, I didn't call you anything or attack. I simply was trying to get you to define your rather vague statement. Just how much leeway are you willing to give Fred?
Here is my post again please note the ? at the end makes it a question not a statement.
I would cheap shot you and call you a teen age girl if I knew what the he!! you were talking about. Are you saying it should be OK to have DC-10 lines at 49 hours blg and MD lines at 85 hours blg?
Here is my post again please note the ? at the end makes it a question not a statement.
I would cheap shot you and call you a teen age girl if I knew what the he!! you were talking about. Are you saying it should be OK to have DC-10 lines at 49 hours blg and MD lines at 85 hours blg?
Last edited by Young Jack; 07-31-2008 at 08:00 PM.
#34
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Joined APC: Jul 2006
Posts: 96
Burn the place down...
Does that answer that? FWIW...I got stir crazy on vacation and picked up a one day O&B my first day off. Day of trip had 3/5 in the house sick with some sort of stomach virus and called in sick. Sick close to vacation is a flag, and although he was VERY decent about it I did get a call from LK and an email from my ACP... ..
Does that answer that? FWIW...I got stir crazy on vacation and picked up a one day O&B my first day off. Day of trip had 3/5 in the house sick with some sort of stomach virus and called in sick. Sick close to vacation is a flag, and although he was VERY decent about it I did get a call from LK and an email from my ACP... ..
#35
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Joined APC: Nov 2006
Position: 767 FO
Posts: 8,047
How about 50 and 84, or 51/83, maybe 51.5/82.5..Do you get where Im going? The contract sets a plausible benchmark in which we will operate such as the 48/60 rule. We could argue why not 49/59 or 48/61 till the cows come home. However, the broader goal of this stipulation is that we all take a hit before we let any man go. ...
#36
FDXLAG is correct. We, as a pilot group, are not responsible for pilot hiring, manning, or furloughing. Regardless of what we do to ourselves, when the time comes the company will furlough.
That being said, we should expect and demand that the company abide by the terms of the contract. 68/85. When they think they can run an airline at 48/60, then we talk about mitigation. Good times or bad, management should fly the contract just like us.
Right or wrong, the easiest place for management to find money is from its people. UAL, AMR, DAL, NWA has proved this over and over. Lets not let FDX do the same thing.
That being said, we should expect and demand that the company abide by the terms of the contract. 68/85. When they think they can run an airline at 48/60, then we talk about mitigation. Good times or bad, management should fly the contract just like us.
Right or wrong, the easiest place for management to find money is from its people. UAL, AMR, DAL, NWA has proved this over and over. Lets not let FDX do the same thing.
#37
Productivity changes now will persist into fatter times as you put it. Optimizer gains will never go away. Let the company man the MD11 for a higher BLG and the Boeing lower and they will just be slow to upgrade for a long time.
The optimizer has been cranking away even with BLG buyup going on. Ever wonder why? Because with BLGs low disputed pairings get flown. This is the perfect time to crank it up without us pushing back.
The company now has to buy up lines as the optimzer extracts more productivity out of us.
Talk to us again about different BLGs when the optimizer is turned down.
#38
Part Time Employee
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Position: Dispersing Green House Gasses on a Global Basis
Posts: 1,918
When the company stops making money (they still are not just as much as they would like) that is when you offer plans to mitigate the losses - until then they can live by the contract just like we are required to do!
#40
As they told me when they wouldn't cater a sequence that routinely didn't operate as published,......that's not in the contract.
I thought we gave each other our word, looked each other in the eye, and promised, come hell or high water, we'd abide by it. Least that's what John Wayne taught me.....maybe that's why they say in training, "We don't 'John Wayne' it around here."
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