Harley,
They have closed the HR shop you went through at the Training Center. They do this from time to time and reconstitute when they will hire again. IMO, which isn't worth anything, is that UPS is unsure what they are going to do depending on what the 60-63 years olds bid. They will have to award bids to cover the 12 new airplanes coming, but also absorb the crews from the planes leaving. 9 747 classics and several DC8's being parked (not sure if UPS knows the final number yet. Crew wise, I'm guessing it's a wash.
The real challenge is going to be training all the displaced and changing crews. They may actually need some new crews, that is where I would guess they would draw from you backpaddlers. (Hopefully), but it would be late summer to early fall (I'm only guessing based on possible training center loadout)
Good Luck!

 

I thought the displacement bid would be out by now. Salty, any word from your parts on this?

 

I think I read Feb 26th on the Bar & Grill ... FWIW

 

Tiger,
I thought you already had a spot on the new whale.
Fish

 

No, it's like the merger proposed between DAL/NWA.<g> Everyone knows they are talking, word is it will come out "next week", but few know what really is being said behind closed doors. We just know the gig is up, they need to move some of those 747 classic folks sooner than later to avoid a repeat of the long vacations some of the 727 crews received. They have airplanes coming..... They dont want to train over peak (theoretically) so it needs to be done within the next 30 days.

 

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Just swimming along.

 

You are correct. That doesn't preclude me from my desire to be SDF based. I am also curious because it might provide some insight into the timeline of being on the whale.

 

Thanks for the update Salty. I wish I could count on getting a class date some time in the future. Being in the pool is of course better than being turned down at the interview, but not knowing if I'll ever get called for a class is hard. I didn't think my interview went all that well and I have no idea how competitive I am for a class slot when they start up again. It's hard having the life in a kind of holding pattern while waiting for the call. I'm looking forward to getting to Anchorage and settling down.

 

It's truly a holding with no EFC ...

 

Keep the faith Harley. They HAVE to hire again soon. We're just too short not to.