Delta now or Fedex in 2 years

[fishalaska]

I recently had a similar decison to make. I have very high level contacts at fed ex... actually the highest level contact you can have and then some.. i chose to leave the regional world and go to the first one that called.... I could not be happier.. will I go to FedEx in the future? Who knows, but right now I am happy where I am. Always go to the first one that calls...

If you really do know Fred Smith or someone else with that kind of pull, WHY did they forget to call you???

 

[AV80R]

i have been here 13 years this month...and if you live in domicile you can get some pretty great schedules...commuters fight for the double deadheads which tend to be all the night hubturn stuff which i don't touch with a 10 foot pole...but we are probably 65% day flying now.....when u average about 250 to 350 hrs a year and can get the one leg day flying it is pretty darn good...and thanks to the rule change i have the option to go another 27 years..ouch!!!

So you were 25 when you got hired at purple? Nice! Now if YOU work until 65 I'll lose my faith in common sense.

 

[pilotyip]

Remember

So you were 25 when you got hired at purple? Nice! Now if YOU work until 65 I'll lose my faith in common sense.

15 years ago FedEx was a place you went to get some jet time so you could apply at the good places like DAL, UAL, TWA, etc.

 

[MemTrash]

Fly as little as you want but how much of that 342 hours you flew last year agreed with your natural sleep?

When I stated "jacked" up schedule I was not talking about how much you worked, but more of how much time was used at your own expense to recover.

I would agree with call to do both, but I'm not among the masses who think that Fdx is the holy grail. Working for 90's pay and retirement benefits is not my idea of an ideal job.

Ref

Well, lets see I sit (B-reserve) noon to midnight. My duty day can't start outside of that window. My trip to CDG.... we took off at 7pm local time in Memphis. Then after 4 days in CDG we deadheaded back FC on NWA. Now we do go along way and the time zones do change so yea it's an adjustment, but my job is like being on vacation.. yours?

When I got hired in 95 Delta was the job I really wanted but they had guys on the street. After a year with FedEx (back in the day when the airlines seemed to be the place to be) you couldn't have blasted me away. It's changed now but back then I usually carried my golf clubs with me or my skiies. It was a better deal back then too it's just a much better deal now.

What is your ideal job? When I had about two years at FedEx I talked to a senior Delta captain and he told me to stay where I was. He said at Delta everyone wanted to get senior enough to fly the all night international stuff anyway. The airlines head to Europe in the middle of the night and get there in the morning. We leave in the morning and get in late in the afternoon. Internationally we have the better schedule hands down, the airlines fly the back side of the clock.


I see your Avtar is no longer a FedEx tail ... Thanks

 

[MemTrash]

Thanks

 

[BOYCAPTAIN]

So you were 25 when you got hired at purple? Nice! Now if YOU work until 65 I'll lose my faith in common sense.

no way !! i've been investing wisely....i should be leaving at 50..that's 25 years...that is plenty...give up my seat for someone else..and i have lot's of hobbies...flying gets in the way of most of them...

 

[MemTrash]

no way !! i've been investing wisely....i should be leaving at 50..that's 25 years...that is plenty...give up my seat for someone else..and i have lot's of hobbies...flying gets in the way of most of them...

Hey FatBoyCaptain I'm not sure eating donuts is really a hobby!

 

[BOYCAPTAIN]

Hey FatBoyCaptain I'm not sure eating donuts is really a hobby!

i've seen the results of eating a lot of donuts...your gut is HUGE!!!!!....when your cut up like me then talk..your just another 50yr old fat bellied old man!

 

[MemTrash]

i've seen the results of eating a lot of donuts...your gut is HUGE!!!!!....when your cut up like me then talk..your just another 50yr old fat bellied old man!

Flying small twins with a big gut is no way to go through life. You still have time to change the way you look if you hurry. You might as well work on the gut since you are too junior to fly a real airplane now.

To be cut up like you I'd have to gain 35 pounds.

 

[BOYCAPTAIN]

i'm 12 years younger and 1000 numbers more senior...and about 50lbs less...DEAL WITH IT!!!!:laugh: