I've always been an optimist about being a pilot at UPS. I feel lucky and blessed to have this job. UPS has treated me well and the IPA pilots I fly with are top notch.

However, the wheels are falling off. UPS management's relationship with its pilots is comical at best. Junior high student council presidents show better leadership than the managers at UPS Airlines. It doesn't stop there. IPA leadership is equally pathetic. Call it what you want to; lying, misstatements, accidently miscounting the cards, ygtbsm. There is no communication from the IPA nor UPS about hardly anything. Meanwhile more and more line pilots and FQSs are failing training and the FAA appears to have a hardon for everyone.

The company cannot succeed with its unions determined not to go one step further than required. Conversely, the IPA pilots can not be fully utilized in a caustic environment with bush league management. Its becoming every man for himself; flaps 20 approaches in MEX, pilots in the training center, and most sadly the 105 or so furloughees with no job, no paycheck and no hope.

We would have been so much better off opening the contract to keep everyone employed. We actually have capts picking up OT and indifferent to the plight of everyone else. Yet the recent survey mentioned nothing about putting a 4a.2d type clause in the next contract. Those on this board who blindly follow the IPA EB are every bit as bad as the brown kool aid drinkers in the FQS ranks. We need some freakin leadership in the airline and in the union.