FedEx is severing ties with Amazon
08-16-2019, 06:34 AM
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FedEx severing ties with Amazon might not have slowed down pilot hiring but it sure has reduced the 757 bidpack hours and loss of flying.
This has also included parking 15-20(what I was told) 757s at outstations around the Fedex system due to lack of parking in MEM. You can see them parked with engine covers on in VCV, IND, DEN, SLC, AFW etc. and was told by mechanic they would be rotated with inbound aircraft to keep them flying. I hear the next bid will also include a realignment/reduction of 757 crews.
This has also included parking 15-20(what I was told) 757s at outstations around the Fedex system due to lack of parking in MEM. You can see them parked with engine covers on in VCV, IND, DEN, SLC, AFW etc. and was told by mechanic they would be rotated with inbound aircraft to keep them flying. I hear the next bid will also include a realignment/reduction of 757 crews.
08-16-2019, 09:33 AM
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Amazon with either UPS or FedEx is a win for all, but with both UPS and FedEx working for amazon the yields were probably just too low. I think UPS will benefit greatly with our partnership going forward and FedEx will be able to capture other business. Long term, things are murkier.
08-16-2019, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Hedley Lamarr
FedEx severing ties with Amazon might not have slowed down pilot hiring but it sure has reduced the 757 bidpack hours and loss of flying.
This has also included parking 15-20(what I was told) 757s at outstations around the Fedex system due to lack of parking in MEM. You can see them parked with engine covers on in VCV, IND, DEN, SLC, AFW etc. and was told by mechanic they would be rotated with inbound aircraft to keep them flying. I hear the next bid will also include a realignment/reduction of 757 crews.
This has also included parking 15-20(what I was told) 757s at outstations around the Fedex system due to lack of parking in MEM. You can see them parked with engine covers on in VCV, IND, DEN, SLC, AFW etc. and was told by mechanic they would be rotated with inbound aircraft to keep them flying. I hear the next bid will also include a realignment/reduction of 757 crews.
08-16-2019, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Hedley Lamarr
FedEx severing ties with Amazon might not have slowed down pilot hiring but it sure has reduced the 757 bidpack hours and loss of flying.
This has also included parking 15-20(what I was told) 757s at outstations around the Fedex system due to lack of parking in MEM. You can see them parked with engine covers on in VCV, IND, DEN, SLC, AFW etc. and was told by mechanic they would be rotated with inbound aircraft to keep them flying. I hear the next bid will also include a realignment/reduction of 757 crews.
This has also included parking 15-20(what I was told) 757s at outstations around the Fedex system due to lack of parking in MEM. You can see them parked with engine covers on in VCV, IND, DEN, SLC, AFW etc. and was told by mechanic they would be rotated with inbound aircraft to keep them flying. I hear the next bid will also include a realignment/reduction of 757 crews.
08-16-2019, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Hedley Lamarr
FedEx severing ties with Amazon might not have slowed down pilot hiring but it sure has reduced the 757 bidpack hours and loss of flying.
This has also included parking 15-20(what I was told) 757s at outstations around the Fedex system due to lack of parking in MEM. You can see them parked with engine covers on in VCV, IND, DEN, SLC, AFW etc. and was told by mechanic they would be rotated with inbound aircraft to keep them flying. I hear the next bid will also include a realignment/reduction of 757 crews.
This has also included parking 15-20(what I was told) 757s at outstations around the Fedex system due to lack of parking in MEM. You can see them parked with engine covers on in VCV, IND, DEN, SLC, AFW etc. and was told by mechanic they would be rotated with inbound aircraft to keep them flying. I hear the next bid will also include a realignment/reduction of 757 crews.
Every other airport you listed shows each 757 at that location flying out no later than 5 days. One airframe in DEN is there for an extended service check. All the others leave on Monday night like normal.
08-18-2019, 05:03 AM
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I've run into birds all through the system with engine covers on. I asked a mechanic why this is, since it delays the walk around. I was told, it was a company directive, that if the bird was down for more than 4hrs (it may have been 5), covers needed to be installed. Summer was for bugs, and in cooler WX it was if precip was forecast. Seems like a lot of extra work, however they must have captured some kind of data proving the need. Or he may have said the covers scare Amazon away. It was loud, so I may have heard him wrong
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