FDX Charters
02-19-2014, 06:26 PM
#251
gets every day off
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02-19-2014, 07:26 PM
#252
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I actually don't realize anything here to be honest. No one here, and that includes you (person reading this post - unless you're Lakeside) knows how he does it. They're have been several people come on here and say "that's exactly how he does it....blah, blah, blah." I do agree that he's got an inside edge on all you guys and it ****ing you off - would probably **** me off too if I was effected but I'm not. I don't have a horse in this race. I'm an outsider (not MD-11) trying to bring objectivity to this witch hunt. In my opinion, it's either Albie's suggestion (collusion with a scheduler - which I imagine the scene from The Departed where Matt Damon is texting on a phone in his pocket) or a bot telling him it's coming (which I find very difficult to believe). OTP recycling is not it though. You can't get that lucky that many times recycling OTP - which evidently you can't do anyways. It's funny that people are making claims on here that they have no idea what they're talking about (OTP recycling). Unlimited OTP? What the hell is that? It doesn't exist - you're making stuff up. The truth needs to come to life here and in time I believe it will. Hell, I'll even email my block rep on your behalf and tell him the boys on the MD-11 are gettin' screwed by Lakeside and we need the truth - provided we can handle the truth.
And I'm writing here because I over-heard an F/O on the crew bus last night talking about the "Wolfpack" and OTP recycling. Dumbasses are reading this forum and think it's all fact when most is just conjecture presented as fact.
And I'm writing here because I over-heard an F/O on the crew bus last night talking about the "Wolfpack" and OTP recycling. Dumbasses are reading this forum and think it's all fact when most is just conjecture presented as fact.
02-19-2014, 09:25 PM
#253
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02-20-2014, 12:25 AM
#254
New Hire
Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: MD-11 F/O
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Just what the company wants
For those of us that have FxCal, just about everyone, you can see who has got one of the charter trips by looking at the closed time table after the charter trip has been picked up. I contacted ALPA about the charter "*****s" and they told me it wasn't their problem. Thanks ALPA! Last summer I also talked to my ACP at the time and he told me the company was working the problem. I also found out the same guy was PDO bumping the same guys off the charter trips. I think anyone that causes the pilot group any pain or distention among the pilots is likely to go unchecked. If they wanted this problem fixed, it would have been fixed already.
02-20-2014, 03:31 AM
#255
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02-20-2014, 05:18 AM
#256
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02-20-2014, 06:08 AM
#257
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Position: MD11 FO, ANC
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One thing I haven't seen discussed is possible "Wolfpack" tactics. Do we know if the pack is picking up everything they can collectively, then swapping it among themselves? What happened to the x-pairing JS was on, that he no longer has...does one of the other "Wolfpack" brethren now have that trip or was it cancelled?
I also noticed that many of the "Wolfpack" appear to call in SCK a lot--especially over Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I also noticed that many of the "Wolfpack" appear to call in SCK a lot--especially over Thanksgiving and Christmas.
or......this......maybe? former Airbus guy tried to 'splain a tactic that was used by some during 4A2b. (I didn't fully listen or understand, but.....)
OTP "recycling" is not possible without help (from at least 1 other pilot) - you have to be able to "park" a trip on another pilot's calendar.
During the process of using OTP to pick up the fat/juicy Charter, you "park" it (give it away) on your bud's calendar & then grab it back using regular M/U
somehow (and I have no clue exactly how at this point) during this "park & retrieve" process (perhaps due to a glitch in the scheduling computers' programming??) - the OTP bank gets replenished & only regular M/U bank is charged
rinse-repeat as necessary
combine with the possibility of using a BOT using time-stamp-hacking or some other ACTIVE manipulation of the company computer system (= ILLEGAL!!) in order to pick up the fat/juicy Charter in the first place.
disclaimer: all the above is total speculation on my part based on a 5 minute conversation I had with said former Airbus pilot on a crew bus, so......ymmv.....so fire away.....all I know is that what these guys are doing is just WRONG (on many levels)
02-20-2014, 08:57 AM
#258
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For those of us that have FxCal, just about everyone, you can see who has got one of the charter trips by looking at the closed time table after the charter trip has been picked up. I contacted ALPA about the charter "*****s" and they told me it wasn't their problem. Thanks ALPA! Last summer I also talked to my ACP at the time and he told me the company was working the problem. I also found out the same guy was PDO bumping the same guys off the charter trips. I think anyone that causes the pilot group any pain or distention among the pilots is likely to go unchecked. If they wanted this problem fixed, it would have been fixed already.
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