Originally Posted by
CBreezy
We don't have any control over what legal cargo gets put on our airplane. I find it absolutely ludicrous to go back and see if there are DHL stickers on cargo on a passenger airplane. If there isn't, should we open the container to make sure there aren't stickers on there too? Maybe we should require the airline provide origin documents. If I were a pilot for a cargo operation and I was given a reroute to go to CVG to pick up boxes, that is a completely different thing.
Furthermore, if my parent company has to pay to ship boxes via FedEx or AA, they are losing that revenue. Isn't that the entire point of a strike, to make the company who is violating the contract to make money feel pain? If Amazon pulled their contract and sent it to FDX, should that pilot group refuse the cargo?
Agree. Flying the boxes of the customer of a carrier on strike is not scabbing. In fact, I'd wager a bet that the ABX union would want other carriers flying their boxes so that their customer is going elsewhere and ABX loses money on the deal.
Struck work can have many definitions, and those definitions are generally set by the union leadership involved. In this case they did not do that. IMO, if you aren't flying one of their acft, or flying one of your acft on an unscheduled extra section with an ABX call sign and flt number then I'd say you're good.
This of course is all moot because the strike is over.