CaptanMark thanks for the info. I wish I could get this information from the FedEx website instead of having to get it via crew bus rumor mill. If JL is saying this stuff out loud then the company should post it! Does management keep this stuff quiet so they can feel important when they are among us laborers? And when is the bid coming!? And how big is it!? I’ll just have to loiter in the German town grocery stores and wait for management to shop! :D

Seems unlikely, especially with Subic closing. The domestic thing seems backwards. Where else in america can you call a guy and have him on a flight to Bejing/HK/SIN within a 1.5 hours?(plus showtime) Not ANC(yet), HNL perhaps.

Euro Domicile Override
 

My take on this is that the 757 will pay W/B Capt and F/O rates if it is based in Europe. This will act as a cost of living override since it is supposed to pay N/B rates.

Not to contradict you, Capt, but I've asked SW (LAX FOA) a few times about the base closing (remember when JL said if he was king he'd close LAX), her quote "whatever JL says, the opposite happens", and we've actually had increased flying lines out here since Jan. But then again, I'm just a clueless line guy, what the hell do I know…

"new bidpack has hardly any international"

Not true. At least not for F/O's. If anything, there is more international flying this month.

If this is the case, wouldn't they have to ammend the contract some how or am I missing something?

yeah...i am just repeating what JL told us on the crewbus...he said he could do all the intl out of mem and anc...he said they r forcing intl into the lax bidpacks...i hope it stays there myself...i can see myself living on a hill in temecula with weekends riding my sandrail in the dunes...

yeah f/os!!!...again i am just repeating what JL said..and i think the f/os are flying more with mem and anc crews then lax crews...

LAX is going to have to do the Guangzhao SIBA.....

"and i think the f/os are flying more with mem and anc crews then lax crews..."

I just took a look at the Captains' lines in the bidpack, and...well...I know a lot of people consider Memphis and parts of Oakland to be in a different country. Otherwise, looks like I'll be flying with a lot of Memphis and Anchorage crews.