Originally Posted by
300ER Hauler
All this talk it comes down to a business decision. Either the union is going to aid the company in this business decision or the company is going to take it upon itself to protect as it sees fit. The managers took a pay freeze and no 401k for the year ... possibly no manager bonuses either for 09. Is the union going to fall in line???? Unions in the past have run businesses in the ground. Let's not join the list!!!! IPA comes first, but we must question if we are getting the entire picture from the EB ... I bet we are not!!!! I don't want to see anyone on the street! Trust me, I am just asking a sane question ... do we have all the information??? I bet not!!!
What do you mean is the "union going to fall in line"????? You mean concede our contract? Do you mean after they nickel and dime and cheat the contract already? What do you "bet the EB is hiding" ???? I know you are well connected with upper management from your previous posts. You sound like an inside emissary for management. Does your management buds give you all the info and the entire picture? Certain they are not giving you much since you are just another line pilot. Now they may give you info so you can plug for them. Good on you, but I will let the EB do my talking and negotiating.
Many of us in the IPA have offered excellent business decisions over the years to increase customer service, save wasted millions in ops, and guess where that gets UPS? Absolutely no where, management doesn't use our input. Though they will ask, nothing really changes. Money is wasted and customers lost.
Just business and I have learned to accept that as a simple hourly employee, the business culture is not interested in any IPA pilot ideas regarding the management of the airline. Thus, it is their responsibilty.
Originally Posted by
Roberto
Salty,
It looks like to me that the FDX team includes 45 747's from Atlas, Polar, and Northwest. Do you know how much of the $1.4B they got? Also, the list shows our team includes 34 747's from Southern Air and Kalitta, and 17 767's from ABX. Any info on the breakdown there?
Go team!
http://www.dot.gov/ost/oet/craf/TA0608.pdf
Roberto,
The January 2009 info:
http://www.dot.gov/ost/oet/craf/pdf/200901memo.pdf
and
http://www.dot.gov/ost/oet/craf/pdf/...allocation.pdf
and here you can see how many FedEX has dropped (significant numbers)
in tails registered.
http://www.dot.gov/ost/oet/craf/pdf/200901faa.pdf
and when they dropped them:
http://www.dot.gov/ost/oet/craf/pdf/200810memo.pdf
Not really, much anecdotal via tracking industry flying. That gives an idea of the scope, but for the financials: Southern Air is a private company purchased by a private equity firm in 2007 (Oak Hill Capital that combined Cargo360 and SAI) and like Kalitta Air, another private company, doesn't report market numbers. Thus, difficult to track. Also, since team leaders have great leeway on who actually flies the volume. i.e. FedEx will get certain trips and can either fly them or sub them out to another team member. UPS does same. Depends on volume, etc whether FedEx or UPS will take the trip. Do know that FedEx builds lines based strictly for DOD charters. They also put lots of the pop ups in OT and let the crews pick them up, They are certainly flying dedicated planes and crews that dwarf UPS particpation.