The other problem with foreign airlines flying your stuff rears its ugly head when they start flying your materials into the US.

ALPA told us when we signed our last contract that we had the "best SCOPE clause in the whole industry". Since then, there was the purchase of ABX (the biggest violation of this clause - Note: our gripe is with DHL NOT ABX), Polar (soon to be), and contracting with Lufthansa, NWA, Kalitta, etc., etc. Our lawyers say that we may still prevail in our scope lawsuit with DHL, but it'll come at a huge cost in dollars and years - and if and when we win, we may not be too far from exactly where we are right now.

FedEx has a larger pilot group and more resources but if you let that camel into your tent, you may be able to fend off the migration of foreign carriers for a longer time than we did, but it will happen and when it does, it'll really p*ss you all off. It did us.

Think long and hard about opening that Pandora’s box. Once you do, it'll never shut.

8DRIVER