Originally Posted by
C2078
Why do you believe FDX should have an industry leading contract over DAL or UAL? Do you consider yourself better than them? Is it an entitlement issue? Do you fly better than them? Do you believe a pilot blocking 300-400 hours a year is better than the pilot blocking 800 hours? Again, the entitlement bleeds through multiple purple folks. Is the vast majority of the membership like this? Do most FDX pilots think “We are FDX pilots, we deserve industry leading rules?”
This is just my opinion but I think cargo pilots at airlines such as FedEx and UPS deserve industry leading contracts, because the night flying is harder on our bodies than multi leg day flying. 4 leg days at a legacy is exhausting but the constant backside of the clock and body clock adjustments take a toll. Some pax airlines have red eye overrides to account for this. Atlas, Kalitta, ATI, ABX, and many others also deserve much higher pay but since legacies have better contracts, many pilots use those carriers as stepping stone jobs to the majors. If FedEx and UPS contracts lag significantly behind pax carriers, then some will use purple and brown as stop over jobs until hired by the big 3.