Jetjok

I agree, but hopefully that will change after the next presidential election. However, it will take a good deal of time to undo what was done to the Supreme Court during these past 6 years.

FDXLAG

Yeah, radical ideas like:

If we want to end discrimination based on race we need to stop discriminating based on race.

have got to go.

We need more decisions like the eminent domain decision.

HerkyBird

I have always asserted that the HKG questions are just a smoke-screen, and a very welcome one at that, for FedEx -- the real elephant in the living room has always been CDG. Fred NEEDS this LOA to get around Frog labor law, which is anathema to Fred.

There should NEVER have been one LOA drawn up for two different cities, in two different countries, on two different continents, in two different hemispheres, with two different economies, and just ONE SET OF HARD NUMBERS for housing allowance, etc. This is gross incompetence on the part of our MEC/NC, frankly. There's also no need to reinvent the wheel here ... it would have been simple to peg a Captain's HOA/COLA to, say, the DOD allowance for an O-5, and peg an F/O's HOA/COLA to the DOD allowance for an O-4 for each particular city. The DOD has already done the economic survey, the scale reflects the difference in rank, earnings, station in life, reasonable (i.e., not luxurious) standard of living, etc.

This is why we need PROFESSIONAL negotiators, not pilots who think that because they can fly a mighty fine single-engine ILS, it means they're shee-it-hot at whatever else they attempt. This is no time for moon-lighting, folks.