Birdsmash

It’s nothing to brag about. Besides...It’s all “rubber dog$hit outa Hong Kong anyways”. Speaking of that....the next Top Gun movie is scheduled to be released June 2020.

https://youtu.be/g4U4BQW9OEk

wjcandee

Actually, they use the airplanes to layer more distant shipments to individuals into their last mile network. So you are correct that something going from a Virginia DC to a New York recipient will go by truck from Virginia to the "Sorting Center" at Avenel, NJ, where it will be sorted for delivery to a last-mile provider: a local post office, or a carrier like LaserShip, or, now, to Amazon's organic last-mile carrier, AMZL. But all the air network does is layer packages into that last-mile network by delivering them by trailer to the Sorting Center. The Sorting Center processes don't care whether they are receiving a trailer of packages from Virginia or Delaware, or instead a trailer of packages that has come from ABE off of the plane from ONT.

The air network is not there primarily to move bulk shipments of the same item between distribution centers. It's there to move packaged customer orders from distribution centers to sorting centers, just like Amazon's ground line-haul network does. It's a minor point, but one that is important conceptually. It's this fact that media often miss when trying to understand what it is that Amazon's doing with its airplanes.

nitefr8dog

Pretty sure I said just that.."or tell anyone "

No Land 3

Rubber dog sh^$ is still preferable to passengers and FA's

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TripleIsolation

Don’t tell anyone??? They’re the ones picketing at amazon and calling themselves Amazon pilots lol

Agcat25

Don’t be silly, stumbling around on icy ramps, climbing frozen hard stands in the middle of the night, isn’t a choice. Don’t let yourself to be conned into this ridiculous mindset. Flying old hand me down jets for one of the Amazon, DHL subs shouldn’t be a career destination just part of the journey. The advantages of flying for a legacy passenger carrier cannot be measured when compared to night freight, hub flying and I’ve done a lot of both. You young guys and gals should get your butts into the right seat of a new, well maintained, well dispatched jet with FAs and screaming babies in the back. Don’t let old guys, who will forever be 3 units short of a BS degree convince you that this is preferable, it’s not!......Thank me.

No Land 3

At the Regionals I flew brand new CRJ's. I've witnessed AA pilots doing the same exact routine as me, commuting in a day early, riding the shared hotel van to a motel 6.
What I say is from experience, go chase that lifestyle if you want it, I'll go fly my rubber dog sh$% literally out of Hong Kong. I haven't done night hub turns outside of Christmas flying for Brown and Purple. Long live long haul freight, everything else sucks.

cessnapilot

To each his own. There is a big difference between Legacy lifestyle and the regionals. I don’t know that it’s a fair comparison.

I’ve done 135, regional, legacy, and the cargo. I’ve found things I enjoy at each place. As I get older and have a young family, I find long trips aren’t a great fit.

Packrat

Seconded. 23 years of legacy plus 15 years of Navy logistics and I'm with you, especially if you're homebased. If only I'd have gotten orders to Millington instead of Norfolk in 1987.