Freighter Captain

this pilot's perspective only

Best airline acquisition: Challenge Air Cargo
Best airline customer's stuff we fly: Amazon.com
Best aircraft acquisition: B747-400F
Best hub: Ontario, Calif.
Best aircraft: B747-400F factory fresh ones
Best hotel: Dubai, U.A.E.
Best new AOM procedure: flaps down prior to aircraft movement
Best aircraft to jumpseat on: B747-400F Big Top
Best van driver: the cookie lady
Best rebel act by a pilot: A-300 captain denying airline VP a jumpseat
Best safety point: no major hull loss except for DC-8 in PHL due to a fire
Best aircraft parking plan: the A-380
Best pilot hiring manager: Paige Muessle
Best new pilot perk: Sleep and locker facilities in SDF
Best place to run into a UPS pilot manager off property: 4th Street Live
Best pilot domicile opening: Anchorage -400, keeping the old guys commuting a country away
Best new FOM procedure: hats are optional (coming soon I hear)

feel free to dissent or add your own

navigatro

I prefer the hotels in HKG and SYD.

Oh wait, we lost those......

Also:

Best new pilot perk: getting furloughed for 3 years!!!!

brownie

Atually a manager once told me it's not called furlough here at ups, Its unpaid vacation.

Freighter Captain

That's for the next decade perhaps, as of 2000-2009 there were no furloughs.

navigatro

true. and the new hotel in HKG starts 1-1-10. I guess that makes it all better.

Gunter

Maybe your scheduling department isn't trying hard enough.

Daniel Larusso

Crushing

Archie Bunker

You prefer the Renaissance Hotel in Hong Kong over the Fairmont in Dubai??? I want some of what you're smoking.

navigatro

In Dubai, you can't get what I'm smoking, unless you want to risk having your head cut off.

I like all of the above hotels. I'm not familiar with the new hotels in SYD and HKG, but I doubt they are nicer than the old ones.

J Dawg

We can add LGB to the list for the domestic guys. Who wanted that downtown Ocean Blvd Westin next to the waterfront/Queen Mary/marina area with dozens of restaurant options when we now can stay at another Ayres in the middle of a suburban concrete strip mall jungle?