Bob:
We are still waiting to hear about the age 60 train wreck here at FDX. Rumor is a very large number of pilots are putting in their retirment notices now that we have a new, much improved contract. Especially in the reitrement health care arena.
Oh wait, we shouldn't have this contract now. I seem to recall some drivel you put out a couple of months ago urging us to dump all the work we (FDX ALPA) had put into negotiating this and starting all over. "Is two years really too long..." or some such crap. You've been here longer than I have and I've been a Capt for over eight years. How come you are still hiding in the right seat? It must kill you as a non-member slime ball that you are only getting a $17,700 bonus instead of the $30,000 I'm getting.
In four years you can go fly FAR 135. Oh, wait. You don't have any PIC logged for the last twenty years? Well, maybe you CAN'T go fly anywhere else. Hope the real estate business holds up. Or, you could go to the back seat of the 727. Hey eng- "How about a little more coffee?"
