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BUT ANOTHER BIG WORK RULE THAT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTS YOUR QOL HERE AT FEDEX THAT NEW HIRES FROM OTHER AIRLINES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ..
FedEx DOES NOT want you commuting directly into long haul flights. Meaning, you need to come in the night or day before your long hault flight checks in and have "crew rest." I put the quotes around crew rest because those words are not in the CBA. Unlike the other major airlines where 95% of the pilots domiciled in the NYC bases and others commute directly into a long haul flights, FedEx prohibits you from using FedEx aircraft jumpseats for jumpseating to the AOC and then immediately signing in for a long haul flight.
Well, I wonder why. Maybe because commuting into a long haul flight ain't so smart, and it's fatiguing? Think we're trying to work on our safety record here.
A lot of your other complaints are valid and things that we need to work on, however, they aren't the end of the world and the sky isn't falling. Many of them don't even affect the majority of people more than once in a blue moon, like substitution.
But I don't think I'd trade for any of Delta's contract, except for profit sharing. I'll keep my vacation, ability to drop anything I want and take off a few months if I'd like to. I'll also keep my pension (God forbid the union give it away), and reserve was a pretty good deal when I was living in Memphis, though I complained bitterly the two days a month I got called out. I'll keep my first class deadheading, my Delta Diamond status and free club privileges. I'll also keep my long layovers and company paid deadheads to work instead of jumpseating.
You go ahead and complain bitterly about every possible thing, but the rest of us are busy trip trading with the computer....