USMCFDX

Nope - call in sick, done, end of story. If you are out longer than 30 days company will require you to go through Harvey Watt to come back. Never need a pre approval and not a single person at the company will contact you until you contact them.

If you need to use DSA after running out of sick then an insite is required.

Just because you did it that way does not mean that is the way it has to be done. If you want to contact the company ahead of tine that is your choice but not required.

Corned Beef

I’m looking forward, not backwards. You’re right, I am okay with that language because it’s open to our interpretation too. Anyways, we don’t have it and wont have it here at purple.

BlueAvi8tor

Of course it will change. At some point the pax folks will have a tough time and start to furlough and Purple will keep chugging along. People will b*tch no matter what. Find your niche here and enjoy your life.

Noworkallplay

YES!!!!

The constant complainers get old!

We have faults in our contract like EVERY airline. We also have some GREAT things no one else has.

J3nkums

If you're staying at Purple or Brown for just the pension then I hope it's around for you in 25-30 years.

FXLAX

That’s the way I’ve heard management interpret 25M3ai. Reserve call out time can be 1 hour. Worse than mesa.

BlueMoon

With short call parking it most definitely can be reduced to 60mins.

busdriver12

2 1/2 years at AA, and I didn't leave them, they furloughed me, and at that time I thought it was my dream job. After a short time at FedEx I was recalled, but it was long enough for me to realize that FedEx was where I belonged. The ability to work as much (or in my case as little as I wanted), deadheads throughout the bidpack for commuting, no pax or flight attendants, mission oriented flying without having to deal with the pax/fa aspects was exactly what I wanted. Staying at FedEx was a no brainer, even after such a short time. Some people love the personal interaction with pax and fa's, I did not care for it at all. And all this time at FedEx, I have never been questioned by the company about an operational decision I made, one single time. Great company, but jeez, get a decent contract that doesn't last the next eight years!

I was trying to figure out what you meant about "not being able to get over the hypocrisy of my post" in your other post, and then I realized that you thought I purposefully left AA after a short time because I was unhappy, yet am telling someone else to stick it out for awhile longer here at FedEx. As you can see from my first paragraph, that wasn't the case. AA gave me the opportunity to work for someone else by furloughing me, which gave me the chance to realize FedEx was the place for me. I will always appreciate AA hiring me in the first place, though, so I never had doubts about working for a cargo airline.

busdriver12

As far as the OP goes, I'm guessing you're a junior 757 fo? Yep, that would really suck. I've looked at the 757 bidpacks a number of times, and they look quite painful. If you were double deadheading to your home, it might be worth it, though. However, I ask you, if you look at the other airplane bidpack schedules, do you think any of those schedules might be good for you, if you could hold that airplane? It seems to me that FedEx has the worst possible trips in the system, and the best possible trips of any carrier. If you stay junior, upgrade at the earliest opportunity, don't take advantage of trip trading or sick time pickup, it's likely you will be miserable, especially if you're a commuter. But if you look at other aircraft bidpack schedules, do you think they would be better for you? Personally, I found the 757 schedules pretty awful, mostly night hub turns (nope). 777 trips, too long. 767 or MD-11, nice variety of decent trips. Ultimately, I found that the Airbus was good enough and I was too darn lazy to go to training again, but I think I'd probably go to the 767 if I was new here. What do you think of those aircraft schedules? You aren't stuck on one airplane for the rest of your career, you know, there is plenty of variety.

Anthrax

Bruh, is this what retirement is about: hawking APC so as to hand out turds of wisdom. tell me, bus driver, weren’t you a big advocate of the 2015 contract?

quite honestly, you were here at a diff time. things have changed dramatically, thanks to the optimization of our new and improved section 25. remember when they said how doing away with 8/24 wouldn’t affect much? yeah, well, isn’t it funny how seemingly small changes can degrade QOL for roughly 60 percent of the crew force. (rough estimate based on pairings in bid pack).

were you here for the pandemic? did you endure any of that nonsense? if not, whatever you have to say right now rings hollow.

its great you retired at 58. go enjoy your old age.