Originally Posted by
khergan
This is a gigantic cope.
You don't have any additional skills that any other ATP carrying pilot has. You're not special.
Originally Posted by
Whoopsmybad
Although I can see your arguments, using 2022 numbers, at the cargo haulers will still reaping COVID rewards and the pax carriers were still in recovery and posted losses the first 1/2 the year isn’t a good comparison. Some pax markets are still shut off and severely reduced (China), and no one has fully recovered international flying, especially the Pacific.
As far as “standards”, that’s a choice FedEx makes and keeps the qualified applicant pool smaller (for a time). Because you checked a couple more boxes to get hired does not make you a better pilot. More experienced, yes (maybe). Better, no.
You guys are getting caught up on a straw man c2078 made up. This all began with c2078 response to my post saying fedex should have the best of everything. I never said Fedex pilots are better than anyone. He accused me of that and you all ran with it. This is why I didn't bother answering him until he at least answered my two questions first. I wasn't going to dignify his response because his insinuation that I was denigrating pilots from other airlines, which you all fell for. I you go back and read what I said, I simply opined that for what we do here, we should be industry leading in every section of our contract. Is that debatable? Maybe, but what is not debatable is that what c2078 said was anything other than a straw man fallacy that is common in a debate tactic used when you feel you have a losing hand.