Originally Posted by
Airhoss
I’m not sure why you’d be surprised about how few PAX pilots don’t know about freight flying. Most haven’t done it. Some of us have.
The last time UAL tried to jump into freight it was an unsupported and unmitigated nightmare. If we are going to do it we’ve got to spend the infrastructure bucks. You can’t go in half way.
It’s not really that they don’t know about freight, it is that they think that they do. It’s a completely different game. I completely agree about the infrastructure. The freight competition is just as fierce as passenger flying, and if you don’t do it right, the competition will eat you alive. I sure wish that it would work though. Commuting to my base on my own airline and then taking a 777 freighter to NRT would be the dream. Flying in pajamas, no flight attendants, no passengers, no phone call to go to the lav, fix a meal when you want, long flights with long breaks.......once I could hold that, I’d never bid off.