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Old 01-27-2026 | 07:45 AM
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Well maybe Purple and Western Global can keep em alive.
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Old 01-27-2026 | 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Cocoloco
I think UPS just forced FDX in a corner. How is the CFO going to spin this?
He's going to spin it as our problem and as a reason to continue stringing negotiations along - you know, uncertain environments and all. That is clearly the pilots responsibility to bear, not the shareholders. It will also be used as a reason to normalize even more outsourcing.
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Old 01-28-2026 | 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Merle Haggard
He's going to spin it as our problem and as a reason to continue stringing negotiations along - you know, uncertain environments and all. That is clearly the pilots responsibility to bear, not the shareholders. It will also be used as a reason to normalize even more outsourcing.
We're so overstaffed that the 757 is manned at 80%. But we're in a CRISIS. Please go to PSA immediately.

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Old 01-28-2026 | 04:45 PM
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Well it looks like you guys at fdx will have a chance to buy 26 lightly used brown MD-11s. Potentially safe to fly.
You clearly have no concept of how ridiculously cheap FedEx has become recently. We measure the toilet paper by GRIT numbers.
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Old 01-28-2026 | 06:19 PM
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Wow, you guys get toilet paper? Brown mgmt just tells us to wipe our a$$ with pages of the contract like they do.
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Old 01-28-2026 | 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Merle Haggard
He's going to spin it as our problem and as a reason to continue stringing negotiations along - you know, uncertain environments and all. That is clearly the pilots responsibility to bear, not the shareholders. It will also be used as a reason to normalize even more outsourcing.
Or maybe since we gave away our furlough protection, they will use this as an opportunity to furlough and bring the company to the size they really want while using third party lift.
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Old 01-29-2026 | 03:19 AM
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Originally Posted by StarClipper
Or maybe since we gave away our furlough protection, they will use this as an opportunity to furlough and bring the company to the size they really want while using third party lift.
It would take actual years for the company to furlough and get bodies in different seats. Between the furlough proceedings, the system bid to bid, the arduous process of bidding month by month for the few training slots
available, then the actual training footprint for the new type rating? Years. That’s our furlough protection
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Old 01-29-2026 | 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by StarClipper
Or maybe since we gave away our furlough protection, they will use this as an opportunity to furlough and bring the company to the size they really want while using third party lift.
You just keep on believing everything Turner and Comer (and ultimately Cutler) keep telling you.
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Old 01-29-2026 | 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Temocil27
It would take actual years for the company to furlough and get bodies in different seats. Between the furlough proceedings, the system bid to bid, the arduous process of bidding month by month for the few training slots
available, then the actual training footprint for the new type rating? Years. That’s our furlough protection
Yes, it will take a while to play the seat shuffle game, and in the mean time, the company would use the excuse that they don't have enough lift and wet lease everything they possibly can, which is their ultimate goal anyway, based on the scope changes they tried to get in TA1.

Would we get full wet lease payments? I doubt it, under whatever emergency clause the company has hidden in the contract, which we will lose in a grievance.

If the company wanted us to fly the planes, we would have this type of furlough protection, but they don't. They want to wet lease everything they possible can to the lowest bidder.

The company no longer cares about the "world on time", since they have scrubbed it from our airplanes. All they care about is money, and sharing as little as possible of it with you.

They don't care about you, or your family. "FedEx cares" might have been true 10 years ago, but those days are long gone.

You are just a number, and if they can replace you with a cheaper number, they will at their first opportunity.

If the company does a cost benefit analysis and determines it is cheaper to furlough and wet lease, they will do it. Count on it.

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Old 01-29-2026 | 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Nightflyer
Yes, it will take a while to play the seat shuffle game, and in the mean time, the company would use the excuse that they don't have enough lift and wet lease everything they possibly can, which is their ultimate goal anyway, based on the scope changes they tried to get in TA1.
"They'd never do that!"

Man, that quote is comedy gold. Still hits after all this time.
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