Originally Posted by
maxjet
At K4 we were flying actual Polar flights with Polar callsign. We were in 1224 at the time. 1224 did nothing about it in spite of numerous K4 Pilots notifying 1224 mgt. This went on for a while. Finally, it seems, that enough AAWW pilots became aware of this and a court action was filed causing AAWW mgt from giving (or selling) flights to K4.
Point? 1224 mgt. is ineffective on their own. If there is a legal precedent for ABX keeping “your” aircraft search for it. If you find it start a grass roots campaign to get 1224 to file it for you. BTW, 1224 will allow you to borrow the money from them, for them, to file the legal action, which you will in turn pay back thru union assessments. Nice huh!
If there is no legal leg to stand on, sadly, it is what it is.
The only legal precedent for "keeping our" aircraft are the aircraft owned by ATSG and operated by ABX crews prior to ATI/Capital and Omni being part of ATSG. Per ABX's scope. DHL signed a CMI to have ABX crew the DHL owned 9 767 200s ABX was currently operating. I would guess with ABX operating 26 aircraft at the time ...DHL was probably getting nervous. Just like Amazon, I would be surprised in they ever put all their eggs in one basket. They also saw the benefit of moving aircraft, cites, and flts around to prevent any one carrier from being in a stronger position in case they decided to stand up for themselves. The 9 aircraft were theirs to move to who ever is the chosen one one any given day.