Originally Posted by
Magenta Line
I had heard we were going to get a 5 yr exemption from the French guv'ment on the tax issue -- actually read it on a post here earlier so who knows....
Agree, junior FO's on narrowbody pay will be playing the kazoo on the Metro and selling crepes to make ends meet. The only way I go is as El Capitan!
Heard 30 crews in CDG but a total of 18 757's when it's all over. Don't know where we're going to park them.... 30 crews sounds about right for an initial staffing and first look bid. Another reason why a MOAB now and not another bid for 2 yrs doesn't make sense. 80 crews sounds right for approx 10 jets for a ratio of 10:1. Crew staffing has a goal they go with on crewmember staffing and then they adjust it, just what I had heard.
IF the company puts out a MOAB that has a 5yr training cycle, then perhaps they are hedgeing their bets that a guy that just turned 60 (and anybody from that age to 64) wouldn't be able to bid Captain since there would be no bid for the duration of their next 5 yrs at Fedex.
The company can't possibly be a proponent of taking a 60 yr old engineer and making him a Captain again. To spend the capital to retrain him to only get 4 years of productivity at the very highest payrate/vacation/sickbank balance. I can't believe that they would want that.
This may be a way to initially defer some costs associated with age 65, and if the law allows the movement in reversal, the company just ammends the MOAB and puts out a "cleanup".