From the ABX Air hiring thread:
Originally Posted by
motorclutch
I'd love to but the CEO reads this forum and he's very sensitive to our rumor mill.
Now, how's that play here? From the very title of this thread?
So IF things happened as you stated (and I have no reason to believe either way other than to take your word for it), then we have an internal issue to resolve. Lying about your jumpseat intentions is not acceptable. But which did you do first: Did you approach anyone at all in an official capacity to start an administrative process to fix this issue? Or did you jump on this forum to get all of the hens clucking on this "non" rumor mill?
You are so obsessed with ATI that all I can conclude is that you're scared of something. Get over yourself. Please. We've all got a lot ahead of us.
I will add that ATI's CBA states "Crewmembers may not use jumpseats outside of Company customer system for Company directed travel". This is IBT language, boilerplated years ago from ATI's first CBA under 747. As with anything written, without access to all of the subscript, it's open to some interpretation. But it seems to me that Amazon and DHL are "Company customer system"s. Delta, UPS, etc, are not "Company customer system" operators. We may not use them except for personal or union business, including getting to or from home, let alone repositioning. Doing so is asking for trouble. Last time we caught one of "ours" doing that (as I'm aware), we read him the riot act, as our pre-CASS reciprocal agreements were very limited and we didn't want to put what little we had in jeopardy. That was over 10 years ago. ABX, Atlas, Kalitta, and Southern are all "Company customer system" airlines. So by our IBT-originated CBA language, it doesn't seem "out of bounds" to repo within "our" system on system aircraft, agreements permitting and upon Captain's authority, of course.
I'll say it again: Lying about your intentions is unacceptable. Thank you for the notification. It would have been nice to have been informed in a more professional and discreet manner before flinging it out there like monkeys at the zoo.