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12-30-2006, 07:04 PM

#11

furloughman

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Does UPS or FEX allow employees' families to travel on the aircraft with seats.
ie 747 upper deck?

12-30-2006, 07:05 PM

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in this day and age, Space A travel is about as useless as tits on a boar hog. You're best bet is to rack up frequent flyer miles and get hard tickets with your miles.. One of the best perks of my new job is the 2 commutes on airlines twice every month that average 3000-4000 miles.. at that pace, I've got 4 solid tickets for my family vacation inside a year, and first/business class tickets if I wait two years..

12-30-2006, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by CE750

in this day and age, Space A travel is about as useless as tits on a boar hog.

Well, now we agree on two things.

12-30-2006, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r

Yes we give most of our Airline Bretheren the same Shipping discount on FedEx that we the employees get.

I was told that UPSers get a discount on shipping at FedEx but when I asked the guy at Kinko's, he looked at me as if I was nuts.

12-30-2006, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Freightpuppy

I was told that UPSers get a discount on shipping at FedEx but when I asked the guy at Kinko's, he looked at me as if I was nuts.

Just because the Kinkos guys says so, doesn't make it so. I think UPS (the air division) get the discounted shipping (trucker drivers, couriers etc don't). Its an interline bennie. Kinkos should be on top of this, but who knows. I was in the Kinkos behind our layover hotel in HNL recently and they had a sign stating that interline shipping was not avail. 12/16 to some time near the New Year. So they should know about interline shipping bennies. Try going to the local station with your id when shipping.

12-30-2006, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MD11Fr8Dog

Should be fairly easy to find out the truth. Any FedEx center can look it up on their computers.

12-31-2006, 01:12 AM

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thanks for the info. sounds like space A conus travel would not really be a benny no matter who you flew for....great. still curious on international flights, i guess ID90 for a vacation to europe might be an option as a cargo guy flying on a legacy for space A?

12-31-2006, 05:45 AM

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No family travel on FedEx -- THANK GOODNESS!

12-31-2006, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r

Yes we give most of our Airline Bretheren the same Shipping discount on FedEx that we the employees get.

In that case, we at Big Brown have you beat. We give pilots, indeed any employee at any airline the same dscount that UPS give us. In round numbers it comes out to about a 0% discount (they don't give us one

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