Originally Posted by
Ziggy
Freightdog:
Are high fuel prices affecting AMF? Just wondering if UPS and other contractors are starting to go with lower bidders or what not? Any big reductions in flying?
With Billings closing and the lear-jet bank runs going away, flying is down but I haven't noticed a significant reduction of flying in BUR or ONT. I'm happy to have a job which allows me to fly "the tube". If I got paid $75-$80,000 a year to fly the tube I probably wouldn't leave. UPS is still happy with put overall product. We're been getting better with reducing AMF incurred delays.
We had a couple pilots leave for TSA and got furloughed in day three of ground school, I feel bad for them.
When one of my pilot friends told me about the Alpine crash in BIL, my heart skipped a beat.