That is until they work hard at losing incriminating e-mails and coaching ACPs to forget what they said to you.

Aint that the truth.

they did something like this to a pilot in need of help? Please share, that is something that surprises me I have to say.

This is what Gunter is referring to:

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ca...-responds.html

You forgot to add.....if you are married. If you happen to be single none of what you said applies. So now one would have to ask why Fedex has two completely different sets of rules for married and single pilots.

Because we ratified and agreed to those rules via an LOA that is now part of our CBA. And when you bid for that FDA seat, you are, or should be, aware of all those different sets of rules (regardless of their merit or fairness).

not sure that reading the 3 decisions makes it so clear that a single person has a different standard than a married one. In fact it reads to me that the main thing they considered was "where you spent your off time" and the one pilot sunk his case by having his wife testify to for some reason that she would never move? While FedEx was concerned about the dichotomy of assuming if you are married you must want to be with your family/spouse and the arbitrators not seeming to care whatsoever about marital status. In the end if I was a single or married pilot I would not take the money if the FDA house was a "crash pad" to me and frankly it is only fair to be treated the same way.

Well said. It really wasn't about married vs. single as many assumed. It really was all about where one calls home.

For the record -- I think all FDA pilots should get the Housing Allowance, regardless of primary residence location, center of gravity, crashpad situation, or whatever. But, that is not what is in the CBA at this time.

My understanding is that we are negotiating for the HA to be provided to ALL pilots, regardless of where home is. Hopefully that's the case.

Except that all the ones that received a termination letter were married, even though single people were in the same situation....except single. The lack of, or misinformation that the general population has is astounding. One could do a little research on this board to find out what hasnt been said about the cases by the Union, or the Company.

Or a 'crash pad' version at maybe half the full HA, meant specifically to provide for a shared crash pad. Available to all pilots with no strings attached.