Originally Posted by
AggieAviator
Let me get this right. Our brothers died in a horrific crash and post about grounding the plane. No condolences or compassion. But plenty of people more concerned about draft. The issues about our lingering contract should not even be discussed in the same sentence as the death of our fellow aviators and others on the ground. Not to mention, the friends and family that will read this childish thread while they are in mourning. I am disgusted by the comments on this board by our pilot group. I publically apologize to the UPS family for this thread. It does not represent the support the FedEx family has for your loss.
No condolences or compassion? That’s not true.
If you get off on feeling better about yourself by telling other people that they aren’t as good as you, that’s something you need to work out before you come back to work.
Despite what you think, one can offer sincere condolences and sincere compassion and still have a discussion about other urgent affairs too, in fact it would be irresponsible if they didn’t effectively manage both in parallel. UPS pilots are having the same discussions about draft as FedEx pilots are having here.
UPS and FedEx pilots are in the same boat here. Friends and peers were lost in a tragic accident and now both companies are in sincere need of their pilot groups to step up to save their operation but won’t make moves to pay industry standard wages with work rule improvements. It is not “disgusting” to remind your coworkers of that, nor is it disgusting to remind them of the fact that the hull loss rate at these two companies far exceeds those of the passenger world, something that needs to be drastically improved.