incorrect the only people that are unhappy are those that gave up seniority numbers before the largest hiring wave in airline history to come to the absolute joke that FedEx is described above completely accurately. They aren’t “the worst stories” as some cheerleader mentioned they are absolutely true and the life of a fedex zombie.

people went to fedex for higher pay, lower chance of furlough, and the opportunity to do different flying with foreign domiciles and charter stuff. All of those reasons in the current environment are no longer a thing as FedEx gets their payday finally the legacies all restart negotiations. Yes there’s still some different and cool flying with dh opportunities but good luck achieving any of that at a shrinking company that’s retiring as much as the legacies yet not hiring. Everything else postal foreign domiciles and possibly oak in the future has been stripped away by the great raj and little richard.

 

So they came to fedex because of the two smallest bases and the 3-4 charter flights a month? Still haven't furloughed. No one is suffering on pay even with the old contract. Does FedEx have it's issues, absolutely. Would i come here again, absolutely. That doesn't make me a cheerleader. It's looking at the playing field and the positives out way the negatives for some people. Other people rather fly for the pax carriers. You moved on IIRC. Why do you care about your ex so much?

 

I think it’s fair to say that people did suffer on pay. And that only ended six months ago.

4A2C reduced annual credit to 704. The B757 FO pay rate was $163. That’s about $115,000 annual salary.

Think about the average new hire. Probably around 35 years old. That’s right in the wheel house of having a young family. With an airline schedule, that means probably a spouse that decided to stay at home. People had to make tough choices like selling homes, returning to work, quitting private school, etc. Maybe not bread lines, but it’s not a coincidence that we had several pilots take their own lives. I’m not trying to dramatize, but that happened at higher rates than other eras.

When crises hit at the other carriers, managers and executives reduced their commensurate with the employees. The fact that executives didn’t do the same here showed that it was more about tactics than necessity.