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No. It's a real airline, albeit ACMI.
No hubs. There are "bases", but only in the sense that they apparently exist to irritate pilots in a scheme that really favors home-basing. They will commercial you there, if they can't use company A/C, which is the norm. Some have to jumpseat, due to contract provisions.
Guarantee or less, typically.
No hubs. There are "bases", but only in the sense that they apparently exist to irritate pilots in a scheme that really favors home-basing. They will commercial you there, if they can't use company A/C, which is the norm. Some have to jumpseat, due to contract provisions.
Guarantee or less, typically.
They have designated gateway cities at Atlas under it's gateway system which is about 81 cities in the US. Your time on duty and per diem patterns start out of your base for pay and not your gateway. So it can work for you or against you depending on the situation going and coming home. You try to bid trips that have you deadheading to your first flying assignment not at your base to avoid IRS taxation for travel to your base. Same for coming back. You could just live at your base and not worry about it at all and bid your trips any way you want without regard to gateway. If you commuted in past jobs and the anxiety of if your going to call in sick if your didn't make that jumpseat eats you up, gateway works out pretty well.
Gateway was not a cure all. Just a way for the union to keep the company from redesignating your base with each new contract they picked up (i.e. your base is now where the new contract was signed for with the new customer).
The Polar side has some sort of travel bank. Don't know much about it, so I won't bother explaining. May work out with regular scheduled routes, unsure in their current ACMI mode. Guess you'll have to ask them after a few more changes to the DHL structure.
Gateway was not a cure all. Just a way for the union to keep the company from redesignating your base with each new contract they picked up (i.e. your base is now where the new contract was signed for with the new customer).
The Polar side has some sort of travel bank. Don't know much about it, so I won't bother explaining. May work out with regular scheduled routes, unsure in their current ACMI mode. Guess you'll have to ask them after a few more changes to the DHL structure.
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Yes. Just about any airport that is serviced by more than one carrier is or can be a gateway.
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