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l8fr82hub
Pretty decent place to work. You work up to 16 days per 28 day bid period. While it's possible to work the 16 days straight, you generally work 8 on, 6 off. About half of the flying is domestic flights out of BAX's Toledo hub and the rest of the flying is international (a lot of which is done by the senior folks).
The pay is equal to or better than most 747 supplemental carriers and we are home based. Almost all the crewmembers are a pleasure to fly with and the airplanes are in about as good a condition as you could expect for a forty-ish year old jet.
We are in the process of being sold to Cargo Holdings International concurrently with the sale of BAX to the Deutsche Bahn. I've heard we will continue to operate for BAX under contract. Also, we are in union contract negotiations which seem to have come to a grinding halt in the compensation phase.
Any other questions?
Yes. What does your route system look like now? (What international and domestic cities do you layover in?)
How are the on/off schedules working out these days?
How much credit vs hard time during an average month? How's the day/night mix? Is like a ABX/FDX operation? (I just applied to ATI and I'm in my mid 50's, so schedule and QOL are becoming increasingly important
).
Fleet plan...767's?, plan on "hold"?, more 8's?...
What's the skinny of the ABX/ASTAR/CHI/ATI/CAC/DHL (did I forget anybody) situation? Who's making out? Who's not?
Home basing is great if it's done right. How's that going? Reasonably effeciently? Decent seats? Not being sent half way around the world every month I hope? Credit for DH/Commercialing?
APC says contract "amendable date unknown". Hardly ever see that. When's it up? How's that going? Pay raises in the cards? Not? Teamsters doing OK by you? Their contracts generally pay well, I've noticed.
I know that's a lot.
Thanks in advance! JP