Soapy and Destructo Crew
 

A recent quote to our negotiations committee of relishing the opportunity to furlough pilots is appalling. This guy needs to be carted off in a straight jacket.

Maybe the guy who hired him and continues to keep him on the payroll needs to be carted off in a straight jacket.

Good point. Either way....the price just got steeper!

Threats from ABEX management of furloughs and Atlas management to cancel gateway travel. These dum dums must think we ain't seen this before.

As a junior FO, I truly believe a majority of the FO's dont really care. Heck, furlough me right now for all I care. It would help most of us out in scheduling interviews and job fairs.

Good news Sherp.....I’ll call you tomorrow. U will love this.

Instead of spending his time taunting the pilots and "relishing" layoffs, shouldn't the President of a company be doing everything he can to try to grow it? Trying to find ways to run it more effectively and efficiently? Hounding Sales and Marketing to bring him customers to close? Why would he "relish" shrinking something at a time when the worldwide opportunities in the sector are growing significantly again, particularly in the size of aircraft that his company is most familiar with? I know some of you guys can be a handful, but that's gonna be the case with any highly-talented team in any business (or sport, for that matter). If you wanna be a corporate leader, talented people with some attitude just come with the territory, and leading and managing a team of talented folks is a calling and a privilege, which you do by always dealing fairly and thereby earning respect. The whole thing is just bizarre.

its beyond bizarre....but i guess ego stroking and who's got the bigger d*** is the name of this guys game. just one thing to remember: we have more than his one!:D

There is little man from DHL and a little man from Amazon at the end of the rainbow promising these numb nut "executives" a huge pot of gold if they deliver the dummy pilots of 1224 to them on a multi year low ball contract. Simple as dat:mad:

DHL and AMZN only care for realiabity. They negotiate ACMI/CMI rates in advance. If the operating cost go up or down it's not their problem. (The most important variable it's fuel and they pay for it)
As far as they're concern, they like to see new contracts signed for reliability porpuses. They know the pilot shortage it's only gonna get worst, so I'm sure they'll like to see some fair contracts as to avoid massive exodus that could disrrupt their ops.

The myth :"the cheaper the pilots, the more business we give you" went out the window when KALITTA signed more airplanes for DHL just after they reached a new contract with their pilots with a significant pay increase.