Originally Posted by
Freighthumper
As much as management would like to pay us like we’re a flight school, our experience level is one that can be trained to operate just about any aircraft ever made. You can’t really compare us to renter, flight schools or flying clubs.
I agree, they need to be replaced. But with what? There is nothing in production, or available for conversion, that will do what the 11 will do. Not to mention, as Max pointed out, they’re probably mostly paid for as well. I bet management would love to have a replacement that would fill the gap.
I think they are gonna be forced to take something that as close as they can get at this point though. I’m sure this is no surprise to them. It’s probably why they wanted student lines. For all the new training that’s gonna be announced as soon as TA27 is signed.
Valid & to your point about new aircraft availability: decisions should have been made five or ten years ago. Not sure how it goes at FedEx, but UPS continues to deny re-scheduling premiums explicitly due to the MD being removed from service. I think at Brown we’re about to find out just where the line between “unforeseeable act of god” and “**** poor prior planning” is.