FDX - Practice Bid Delayed Til Next Week
05-01-2008 | 10:22 PM
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From: MD-11 Captain
The way the FedEx excess system works -- no bump and flush --encourages multiple excess bids imo. If people don't bid where the company wants them to go, they hold another one etc until the system looks like whatever they think it should look like. So it isn't exactly stretching things to think there's going to be more (maybe several more) excess bids.
Not that any other system of dealing with too many bodies for too little flying is any better.
But that's just my opinion, I've been known to be wrong.
Not that any other system of dealing with too many bodies for too little flying is any better.
But that's just my opinion, I've been known to be wrong.
05-01-2008 | 11:21 PM
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05-02-2008 | 12:38 AM
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From: Nordskog Industries Field Technician
That's not what you were saying, or at least it's not the way I read it. This is what you were saying:
You didn't hurt my feelings, but you must admit, we've got a lot going on simultaneously, unlike your regional analogy, which is probably spending its time wondering if they should take 3 peanuts or 2 pretzels out of the little bags they offer as an in-flight snack. As pilots, we are not privy to El Picture Grande, and so when something happens, we are usually the last to know. That probably goes for our airline management too. Remember, the airline is a rather small portion of the overall picture, and I'd bet that even the VP of Flight Ops is preached to, and kept in the dark, a good deal of the time. Doesn't make it right. Just makes it the way it is. By the way, what with your extensive background in corporate structuring, maybe you could offer some suggestions as to how to run a more profitable company. I'm sure Fred would appreciate it.
You didn't hurt my feelings, but you must admit, we've got a lot going on simultaneously, unlike your regional analogy, which is probably spending its time wondering if they should take 3 peanuts or 2 pretzels out of the little bags they offer as an in-flight snack. As pilots, we are not privy to El Picture Grande, and so when something happens, we are usually the last to know. That probably goes for our airline management too. Remember, the airline is a rather small portion of the overall picture, and I'd bet that even the VP of Flight Ops is preached to, and kept in the dark, a good deal of the time. Doesn't make it right. Just makes it the way it is. By the way, what with your extensive background in corporate structuring, maybe you could offer some suggestions as to how to run a more profitable company. I'm sure Fred would appreciate it.
JJ, relax. Allow some guys to vent. Not everybody is sitting on a nice retirement after a nice career and about to come back to a nice WB Capt. paycheck.
05-02-2008 | 04:07 AM
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05-02-2008 | 05:55 AM
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05-02-2008 | 06:02 AM
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