Originally Posted by No Land 3 (Post 2801919)

I was at Mesa before 117. Do you know what 117 did? It made things more complicated and was a pay cut.
No more standups, fine. But if you did a stand up on your last day, you were released to go home around 6am or whenever you got back to base.

Originally Posted by KSCessnaDriver (Post 2801707)

UPS scope won't allow it, basically anything bigger than a Shorts would have to be flown at UPS, IIRC.

Originally Posted by chrisreedrules (Post 2801933)

I wish stand up lines were a thing, I’d probably bid them.

Originally Posted by atpcliff (Post 2802018)

Southern, owned by Atlas, recently committed to fly 20 737s for Amazon. Between Atlas and ATSG, I believe that Amazon is now up to 80 aircraft planned. Since the Amazon ramps in CVG are designed for at least 300 aircraft, there is room for about 220 more...

Originally Posted by pangolin (Post 2802070)

Do these companies have “exclusive” deals with Amazon?

Originally Posted by atpcliff (Post 2802097)

Not that we have heard.
Also, with the new 737s for Atlas, and the new 767s for ATSG (ABX, Omni and ATI), Amazon now has warrants to purchase up to 40% of the stock for each company.

Originally Posted by No Land 3 (Post 2800339)

Throw in homebasing, where they buy you a ticket into work, and to go home, the entire pilot group would go for it, don't kid yourself in thinking no one would do it.
Ready reserve all day or night? Packages come in and go out like clockwork, you shouldn't be sitting any reserve when airplanes aren't scheduled.
Furthermore, the industry standard is for you to be in a paid for hotel room when not on ready, with homebasing.
As bad as it sounds to you, industry standard for this sort of thing is still light years ahead of the regionals. But again, JO will do what he wants, and Mesa pilots will accept it.

Originally Posted by Name User (Post 2800244)

It would have to be under a different operating certificate I'd think.

Southern Air I thought was going to operate the 737s for Amazon.