I have to agree Mach80 on this one. While I understand that some of you may peg Mach80 for being too anal or uptight with regards to proper phraseology on the radio, I think he is bringing up a good topic of discussion. And I believe many of you would be doing yourselves a disservice by...
Wasn't Southwest the only one to report a profit for the quarter? I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain the big six listed above all reported losses.
Rumor around the industry is that FedEx and DHL will enter into an agreement where FedEx will takeover most of DHL's domestic deliveries and in exchange DHL will do the same for FedEx's European volume.
Now, with the recent cancellation of FedEx's plans for a Paris domicile, does this add any...
YOUR job (junior pilot/newhire). Their job (senior pilot) is secure. They just want their $300+ hr. pay back and they see this as an opportunity to get it.
"Caylon analyst Ray Neidl says U.S. airlines will lose over $1B in 2008 due to high fuel prices and fare cuts. Most, he says, can make it through the year, though he's worried about AirTran (AAI) and Frontier Airlines (FRNT). Delta Air Lines (DAL), Northwest Airlines (NWA) and Southwest Airlines...
Where would they have to airline you over 5.5 hours since DHL took away your international flying? I wonder how many of your guys would tell the company to give them the $300 and put them in coach if they ever did have to airline over 5.5 hrs?
Per Rick Barr at a crew meeting Friday. He sees no hiring at UPS for the next two years. If UPS sticks to past practice, look for them to drain the hiring pool and start all over when the do resume hiring. Yes, that means that current poolies would have to reinterview.
I know that Airborne had a very tough DC-8 training program. I wonder that with the purchase of ATI, if some of the old Airborne philosophy has made it's way to ATI?
Referring to DC-3 pilots. Paraphrasing a line from the movie Heartbreak Ridge...
"This is the new Airline. The new breed. Characters like you are an anachronism. You should be sealed in a case that reads break glass only in the event of emergency".
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