Nothing...until such time they need to hire a pilot. Maybe we will see huge blocks of hiring in the future, followed by the "need to avoid a furlough".....Perhaps we will hire 200 in a month, and pay them training pay which would be more than offset by the BLG reduction....


That is except for one very real reality. FedEx is in this to make money, and really prefers a growing market with as many fricking pilots and airplanes it can possibly support, filled to the gills flying up to FAR limits. They really don't exist just to $crew us. Until the optimizer can fly us all to min days off [I]and[I] keep the credit hours below 68/85, then you don't have to worry about it for perpetuity.

I would say, that it will exist as long as we don't hire, and have under-utilized DC-10 pilots waiting for training.