Originally Posted by
nightrider
"This strategy supports our commercial growth plans while avoiding adding up to 50 new wide-body aircraft to our fleet in the next 10 years, which we would otherwise need to fly about 30 daily frequencies that can now be flown more economically and efficiently with partner lift.
As a result, we will deploy our Purple Tail crews and airplane assets towards the higher yielding, more premium segments of our business that it was designed for. It's all about processing more volume with less capital input and better resource management, or simply put, moving more packages and freight with fewer enterprise assets and People.
That was a quote from your ceo, and this new scope would remove any restrictions from accomplishing his goals, he plans on farming out your jobs, this is a real threat.
This is exatly what they are doing with the Express/Ground guy in the trucks. They are sharing sort and delivery facilities while splitting the routes. The Express courier will be doing high volume/yield, close in delivery while the ground guy will now be doing the country rural routes with one measly package.
They want to do the same thing with lift. Its that simple. Honestly when they initiated the Drive initiative we should of reopenned scope that day. Two things kill us during negotiations. 1. Money, they can always negotiate longer and harder due to deeper pockets. 2. We always assume the new language will be used by the old operating standard and are always surprised then say “well we didnt think thats the way they would do or enforce this”.
We are in a pickle for sure.