1. 5 years

2. Fedex is my third airline, and I flew corporate before that. Got my ticket signed in 1986, if that makes any difference. (I've also flown 60 makes and models, been through 10 part 121 training programs, including both the DC-10 twice and the MD-11 twice, and was an MD-11 captain when I came here. There... I feel much better....)

3. If I was a smart-aleck I'd say evidently not, because I'm going to lose about 5 years' worth from all this (or more if the FE's come back). But I'll just say that we all knew the game coming in - make hay till you're sixty and then you lose your seniority or get to only use it on a panel. Don't give me the "seniority is a bedrock of our profession." So was age 60. So bedrocks don't always last forever.


All this "young feller" talk is to say, you don't count for much. We'll let you pull gear and pay dues, but you ain't sh!t at this company until you're a widebody captain. O.K., I can deal with that. I know where I stand with you Redeye. Let's see where that gets us....