FedEx Hiring
#93
Remember when new hire classes were a big deal? The chief pilot and union reps would come by and greet each new class. Both couldn't wait to post the names of the latest additions complete with photos and the caboose in a train hat. It seemed like the company and union would race to get that news out. Now we get an anonymous yes on APC.
#94
Remember when new hire classes were a big deal? The chief pilot and union reps would come by and greet each new class. Both couldn't wait to post the names of the latest additions complete with photos and the caboose in a train hat. It seemed like the company and union would race to get that news out. Now we get an anonymous yes on APC.
Hiring means your company needs pilots
There's nothing to see here
Please go back to looking for extra trips to pick up in OT, advance volunteer, calculating your max vacation buy back and keeping your kids off the home phone in case a scheduler is trying to draft you!
Don't get distracted by pretty pictures of smiling new hires in suits
Focus man!
#96
Update
Our first pilot New Hire class in over 19 months was welcomed to Flt Ops on 10 NOV. The class was made up of seven pilots internal to FedEx, who were previously working at Corporate Aviation, Flight Training and Flight Management. We have an additional 14 internal applicants, who have successfully completed the testing and interview process and are in queue for future classes. We have received approval to hire 200 pilots next year. The successful internal applicants will be the next pilots hired, following that, we will begin to hire from the street.
Our plan is to place all new hires into the B757 FO crew position. We do not have firm dates for our future classes as we await the results of the current posting and the subsequent training letter. Once those are completed, we will be able to identify 57 FO training slots for our future new hire pilots and plan our next classes.
Our plan is to place all new hires into the B757 FO crew position. We do not have firm dates for our future classes as we await the results of the current posting and the subsequent training letter. Once those are completed, we will be able to identify 57 FO training slots for our future new hire pilots and plan our next classes.
#97
Line Holder
Joined APC: Mar 2013
Posts: 30
I was also ex-Navy and an internal hire as well - 18 months (8/94-2/96) throwing boxes and driving a tug. Leaving active duty in late '93 was NOT great for getting hired at a major.
In my new hire class of 30, we had 6-7 internal hires, plus a couple guys that did internships at FedEx way back in the day (may not have necessarily got them the interview, but it sure gave them really low emp #s ). A guy hired a couple classes ahead of me had 17yrs at FedEx when he came to the line, working mostly in GOC.
In my new hire class of 30, we had 6-7 internal hires, plus a couple guys that did internships at FedEx way back in the day (may not have necessarily got them the interview, but it sure gave them really low emp #s ). A guy hired a couple classes ahead of me had 17yrs at FedEx when he came to the line, working mostly in GOC.
I always had to do a double take when some F/Os had lower numbers than Captains when closing out flightplans though
#98
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: RJ Capt
Posts: 63
Short chat with a bro who put it best….why would I leave my 16 % pension and seniority to come to a company that is going to offer me a 16% pension and less seniority?
FedEx will never have a problem hiring pilots. In this environment, they will have a challenge keeping all of them. Even if we keep our full A plan (which I am confident we will. It is a strike issue…) the fact the company has telegraphed a desire to end it will make coming here less attractive and staying here less lucrative to those with less than 3-4 years on the property. Our group has helped about 700 pilots get hired here. There have been at least 20 in the last year that have approached me about helping them go other places. Its not a huge number statically, but anecdotally is captures a lot of the mood I am seeing. Last week in Corpus Christi I asked a room full of airline wannabes which airline was their first choice….airline by airline. Not a pilot put their hands in the air when I asked "FedEx?" Its sad, because five years ago we were more than 50% of the guys first choice.
FedEx will never have a problem hiring pilots. In this environment, they will have a challenge keeping all of them. Even if we keep our full A plan (which I am confident we will. It is a strike issue…) the fact the company has telegraphed a desire to end it will make coming here less attractive and staying here less lucrative to those with less than 3-4 years on the property. Our group has helped about 700 pilots get hired here. There have been at least 20 in the last year that have approached me about helping them go other places. Its not a huge number statically, but anecdotally is captures a lot of the mood I am seeing. Last week in Corpus Christi I asked a room full of airline wannabes which airline was their first choice….airline by airline. Not a pilot put their hands in the air when I asked "FedEx?" Its sad, because five years ago we were more than 50% of the guys first choice.
Pilots have short term memory. In 2008 United hired their first pilots in nine years and things were "looking up" in the industry. All 150-200 of them were furloughed within a year and a half of their hire date. Boo ya. The hiring has ramped up at the legacies again so people thing everything will be peaches and ice cream forever.
The fact FedEx is in heated contract negotiations doesn't matter either. Pay is not going down when it's all over, and the pilots are not going to cave on all this nonsense presented by the company when they're making record profits.
I can take a night flight here and a night flight there for job security, vacation, work rules, deadhead bank, and the convenience of flying boxes that don't complain. It may take a degree from Harvard to pull it off now, but the company is in a position to act that way. They really don't care if everyone else is hiring. They will get their preferred guys either way.
BAM!
#99
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2006
Position: Early Retiree SWA
Posts: 354
Any chance you good gentlemen at Fedex are starting to consider us overseas guys yet (out of US for a few years)? Had heard possibly with your new mail contract it might happen but haven't heard anything definitive yet.
My guess is no, but thought I'd ask.
Thanks guys and fly safe out there!
Kap
My guess is no, but thought I'd ask.
Thanks guys and fly safe out there!
Kap
#100
All good points that you make and I think you have it well thought out for the most part. I quote the lines above because it perfectly encapsulates what I think is the problem at FedEx and WHY we aren't now everyone's first choice. In a nutshell it is HUBRIS and nothing more.
Your lines above:
1 is correct because our current leadership throughout flight ops is so full of their own kool aid that it is inconceivable to them that people wouldn't want to come here. Of course we don't have to care if everyone else is hiring, everyone wants or would want to come here.
2 is incorrect but has yet to be shown because we haven't really started beating the bushes yet. They will not get their "preferred" guys because they won't know any better, but will convince themselves that the guys they get are the guys they want. Not necessarily. The preferred guys that they want are actually those that they have right now. It should be glaringly obvious that there may be a problem, but the myopia within the flight ops management doesn't allow for the recognition that there could be an issue when guys begin either to leave in bigger numbers or the hiring pool isn't as robust. As more and more junior guys take a look around and see the options that are out there not painted purple, MAYBE it'll get someone's attention, but I suspect will be blown off as insignificant if they have onesies and twosies leaving. The power of the knowledge that there is no better place than Purple and how anyone could think to leave is so prevalent here, that I believe it puts us in a tough spot and possibly weakens us. There isn't the drive to either improve or care to notice opportunities for betterment. Guys vote with their feet. No amount of BZs or barbecues or cookies in the hub are going to make it someplace that guys feel like they are cared for as valued members for what they bring to the table and do every day and night to make this operation all that it is.
My opinion only, is that we are basically in 1998 all over again and I think Albie is correct.
WM
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