Originally Posted by Freighter Captain
I was surprised to see the big openings on the DC-8 and 727. Is UPS pulling some aircraft out of the desert?? This must be for future Menlo lift.
Yes, the company has already announced that they will take some dc8 and 727 aircraft out of storage for MENLO operations. The number they are reactivating isn't enough though. The company has disregarded our scope provisions of integration within one year of purchase. That year was up last December.
I would suspect that we will continue hiring throughout 2006. We are not as big an operation as FedEx, so 300 pilots would represent a 12-13% pilot group increase.
The number of pilots hitting 60 starts to accelerate reaching a peak in 2008-2010. This alone will generate a few hundred new hire positions.
I'm just a regular line guy, so none of this is official. Just relaying info I've heard directly from our CPilot. Not that he's in the loop either....
