They need a LOA to procure your foreign income exclusion.

Also, I don't know why folks think a Cologne LOA would change the HKG LOA. They could be two separate and distinct agreements.

 

You mean the pilots doing 40+ landings a month and are at the top of their game? I see your point about how many pilots waiting to come here would think it would still be worth it but you didn't need to go there.

 

Bingo!!!!!!!

 

Whatever the new FDA LOA looks like, it won't affect me and it'll probably be the best we can get.

 

Only if we lay down and accept another steaming pile of a LOA. That should never have been in the first one.

 

You'll need one for Germany. Marginal tax rates there for Capt and F/O type incomes is 45%. Church tax is an additional 5% if you're a member of an organized church. The $86K income exclusion you get back here won't matter much if you're giving 50% off the top to the German government!

 

Ah, the FIE and the LOA. I remember a few of us voraciously complaining about that a few years ago, nobody listened.

 

Proponents of Hysteria, they were....or still are!

 

Why not?

The management at the Fedex MEC unit seems not to understand this simple fact. There are litterally HUNDREDS of CAPTAINS of heavy jets who are younger than 40 and who have spent the past decade flying under part 121 daily....and who look at their current [flaky; gone tomorrow easily~] airline and wonder why they are prostrating themselves during 18 hour duty days. Sometimes it is more than 18 hours- if scheduling tacks on a part 91 ferry, then you are now going towards 21 hours of duty time.

A lot of these kids have been flying 6 legs per day for 20 days per month. It is typical for a regional airline pilot to put 95 hours in their logbook each month.

NOW: With that sort of resource out there....can anyone here tell me WHY Fedex would pay tens of thousands of dollars to send an existing pilot to a foreign base, when they can be sure to send one there for FREE?

Hello?

 

Why not?

Fedex wants, who they want. Not who's available.

They simply want to do things as cheaply as possible. If our union or membership aid them in accomplishing this, shame on us.

Filling the left seat, with pilots currently on the seniority list, is never a problem. I guess their are plenty of pilots, currently unemployed, who would be willing to take the right seat regardless of the financial consequences. Fortunately, Fedex realizes that a temporary manning situation (FDA), is just that, temporary. They will do what they have to to make it work with the pilots they have. Otherwise, every time a bid came out, they would be replacing FO's in FDA locations, and instead of hiring who they wanted, they would be hiring who was willing. Not likely.