I encourage everyone to read the link that was provided by Boiler. Thank you for that link!!!

Here are a few items from their scope section. How do you think Fedex management would interpret them given the current environment?

2. InternationalSubcontracting 33

a. Notwithstanding C. 1. above, the Company shall not be required to utilize Company aircraft operated by Association represented crewmembers in international operations if the Company, or its affiliates, do not possess all the requisite regulatory authority and all traffic authority, taking into account the most expeditious and efficient movement of the traffic, for that international operation,

Next from 1.D.7

c. Weekly aggregate limits between two international airports or between an international airport and a U.S. region (as described above) will be based on the Company’s frequency/utilization of common carriage service:

Five (5) or less service days per week:

If the flight is 5:00 block hours or less, UPS is limited to no more than forty-five (45) containers per week when the Company utilizes any common carrier for five (5) or less service days per week. In those cases where the scheduled flight time between locations is over 5:00 block hours, the limit shall be no more than fifty (50) containers per week.

The abover weekly restriction goes on the talk about 6 and 7 service day weeks which total either 9 or 10 containers per day depending on the block time.

And from Section 2.

1. Container - means the volume which can be contained in the A-2 container currently
   
2. 34 used by the Company (i.e. 352 pieces) or an equivalent amount. means the volume
   
3. 35 which can be contained in the A1 container currently used by the Company
   
4. 36 (i.e., 507 cubic feet). If loose packages are loaded in the belly of an aircraft, a
   
5. 37 container shall equal fifty-six hundred (5600) pounds. If volume is palletized, it
   
6. 38 shall equal one container if its area is equal to or less than the footprint (i.e.,
   
7. 39 125 inches x 88 inches) of an A1 container.
   

So, that restriction is between 50400 lbs and 56000 lbs per day or up to 392000 lbs per week between two international airports or between an international airport and the us.


If the flights are only domestic, and fall under common carriage. Here is what that says.

1. Common carriage (domestic) (within the fifty (50) United States) - scheduled service
   
2. 3 provided by an air carrier not affiliated with the Company and independent of business
   
3. 4 provided by the Company. Air transportation service provided for the Company by
   
4. 5 another air carrier involving more than one (1) package container per flight will be
   
5. 6 considered common carriage if such flight has been scheduled and operated at least a
   
6. 7 year in advance of the time its cargo space is first utilized to transport parcels for UPS.
   
7. 8 Service involving more than five (5) containers of volume per flight will be considered
   
8. 9 subcontracting.
   

1. 29 Common carriage (express freight) – Movements of express freight will be subject to the
   
2. 30 domestic and international definitions of common carriage as are set forth above,
   
3. 31 subject to the provisions of Article 1.D.5.

So how do you think Fedex would interpret that 5 container per flight limit? How many flights are there in the US.

Yes, we should improve our Scope. What we shouldn't do is blindly take someone elses scope and say we want that without thinking about how it will affect us or how the company can interpret it.