Originally Posted by
Jetlife
AMF pilots do not know the ins and outs of UPS or the system. They know they need to be at X airport at X time and to look for the brown truck, fly to another airport and give the boxes to another brown truck, that’s it. And most of the runs are not flown at night.
There are hundreds if not thousands of 121 jet crews with lots of experience, lots of heavy time, lots of international time applying to big brown and big purple. The flying AMF does is just slightly more relevant to what UPS does than flight instructing.
Flying a 1900 from one podunk airport to a slightly less podunk airport by yourself doesn’t really prepare you for flying a 747 to Frankfurt.
UPS doesn't fly into Frankfurt.
Night flying is night flying. I'd say someone with night experience would be preferred by UPS. And AMF pilots would get to know how UPS works just by being exposed to them. Plus, you'd get to hobknob with there pilots during the sort and maybe get one to write you a rec.