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aviatorhi 06-11-2019 01:42 AM


Originally Posted by Hellafo (Post 2833907)
Fixed it for ya.
And yes you have to track and submit all your block hours, and all your per diem.

Even flying an Alaskan Sled driver hasn't needed to submit a form for the last decade.

mexipilot84 06-11-2019 10:00 AM


Originally Posted by aviatorhi (Post 2835013)
Even flying an Alaskan Sled driver hasn't needed to submit a form for the last decade.



Nature of the beast sadly. Hopefully gets rectified, doubt if they keep growing they’d be able to keep up with all the paper work.

hoover 06-11-2019 10:01 AM


Originally Posted by mexipilot84 (Post 2835192)
Nature of the beast sadly. Hopefully gets rectified, doubt if they keep growing they’d be able to keep up with all the paper work.

Sometimes paperwork and forms can make you some money. Just saying...

SoFloFlyer 06-11-2019 02:27 PM


Originally Posted by hoover (Post 2835194)
Sometimes paperwork and forms can make you some money. Just saying...

#CookBlockHourNotFlightHours
#BlockTimeLivesMatterToo

av02 06-11-2019 03:21 PM


Originally Posted by Hellafo (Post 2833907)
Fixed it for ya.
And yes you have to track and submit all your block hours, and all your per diem.

is this a joke?

mexipilot84 06-11-2019 10:37 PM


Originally Posted by av02 (Post 2835322)
is this a joke?



Serious as a heart attack. Our scheduling software does not track per diem.

mexipilot84 06-11-2019 10:44 PM

Our leadership has told us swift us applied for 10 more acft to the fleet with the DOT. Looks like 2 will be cargo birds for DHL out on the west coast.

Also looks like they’re going to explore adding wide bodies to the fleet. Talk of a330s in cargo and pax config. Not confirmed on type yet.

Probably starting DOD flying on last quarter which will be huge for the company.

ETOPs certification in the works.

As far as pay, was told to address it to our COO when he comes in 2 weeks or so to have a pilot meeting.

Jeff90 06-12-2019 01:28 AM


Originally Posted by mexipilot84 (Post 2835450)
Our leadership has told us swift us applied for 10 more acft to the fleet with the DOT. Looks like 2 will be cargo birds for DHL out on the west coast.

Also looks like they’re going to explore adding wide bodies to the fleet. Talk of a330s in cargo and pax config. Not confirmed on type yet.

Probably starting DOD flying on last quarter which will be huge for the company.

ETOPs certification in the works.

As far as pay, was told to address it to our COO when he comes in 2 weeks or so to have a pilot meeting.

Let’s hope this would be awesome for us

TiredSoul 06-13-2019 07:25 PM

3 years ago Swift was to get a DHL contract with 1-2-3-4 freighters.
One freighter showed and there’s still no DHL contract.
2 years ago 76’s were to come, 76’s for everybody!
And now Airbus :D
I can see the MX logbooks already:

#cannotduplicate

mexipilot84 06-14-2019 01:38 PM


Originally Posted by TiredSoul (Post 2836398)
3 years ago Swift was to get a DHL contract with 1-2-3-4 freighters.

One freighter showed and there’s still no DHL contract.

2 years ago 76’s were to come, 76’s for everybody!

And now Airbus :D

I can see the MX logbooks already:



#cannotduplicate



They weren’t able to get the 2nd acft out of Europe in time for the contract so DHL walked out. That was outside of swift control, but it happened.

Seems like a lot of focus onto cargo now.


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