Originally Posted by TipsyMcStagger
But I do know this; the 747-400's arrive in '07. With the current language, UPS can not operate the -400's as they hope to (ie. greater than 12 hour legs) and they will have to use CA's as IRO's.
Since you are new, you might not be familiar with the bloviating around here when we got the MD-11's about how the company needs our help and our concessions so dearly or else the thing will never fly west of Anchorage. They offered us a pretty good package, we turned it down, and they went right ahead and did what they wanted anyway. The -400 will be a plane that needs to stop in ANC anyhow, so the lack of a heavy crew or a captian as the IRO won't make any difference at all.
We have our cards to play out, but that isn't really one of them.
You are right, life as an international or a reserve pilot under the new article 13 will be challenging