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Old 01-05-2011 | 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by gloopy
He actually brings up a good point. Of course it would arrive with legal fuel. He is saying the outbound leg on behalf of a mainline will be "fat fueled" so that it lands at its next destination with more than legal fuel which was paid for by the mainline but will be burned doing someone else's flying. There is already some sneaky DH-ing going on by "air group" portfolios who fly for everyone. Stealing a few hundred pounds here or a thousand pounds there is a very real possibility. The shell game of multi airline outsourcing ACMI is not only bad for pilots at every level its one of the most poorly thought out MBA classroom brainchildren in the industry.
There is plenty of BS stuff going on but the over riding issue is, if it were costing the company more than keeping it in house they wouldn't outsource.