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from IPA IPNN:
As DHL struggles to lure customers away from UPS and FedEx, the cargo giant has informed ABX Air that it will cut its fleet requirement by 26 aircraft next year. DHL says its 2005 budget planning assumptions include eliminating 16 DC-9s and 10 DC-8s, affecting 22 scheduled routes. Aviation Daily reports seven aircraft will be cut in January and the rest by the end of 2005. ABX says taking these aircraft off DHL routes will reduce gross revenues by $86-$96 million. ABX will also add four B-767 under their DHL contract.Teamsters Local 1224 President Rob Boyd tells IPNN the pilot group expected some fleet overlap but was stunned to learn yesterday the extent of the reduction. Boyd says they do not feel it was fair and was probably just a business decision. However, he adds that when you have people who have spent 30 years building up a Company and an outside foreign entity comes in and does something like this, there leaves a bad feeling. Boyd says ABX estimates that 120 pilots could be furloughed as a result of the fleet reduction. Adding insult to injury, a number of furloughed pilots had just been recalled; many had even quit other jobs to rejointhe former Airborne. Boyd says union leaders will be in touch with the Teamsters International to plan their next steps.This news follows the recent management shakeup at DHL. Deutsche Post replaced the CEO for DHL Express Americas after cutting its U.S. forecast and announcing it will post a wider than expected loss in the U.S. as it spends more to win market share from UPS and FedEx.
As DHL struggles to lure customers away from UPS and FedEx, the cargo giant has informed ABX Air that it will cut its fleet requirement by 26 aircraft next year. DHL says its 2005 budget planning assumptions include eliminating 16 DC-9s and 10 DC-8s, affecting 22 scheduled routes. Aviation Daily reports seven aircraft will be cut in January and the rest by the end of 2005. ABX says taking these aircraft off DHL routes will reduce gross revenues by $86-$96 million. ABX will also add four B-767 under their DHL contract.Teamsters Local 1224 President Rob Boyd tells IPNN the pilot group expected some fleet overlap but was stunned to learn yesterday the extent of the reduction. Boyd says they do not feel it was fair and was probably just a business decision. However, he adds that when you have people who have spent 30 years building up a Company and an outside foreign entity comes in and does something like this, there leaves a bad feeling. Boyd says ABX estimates that 120 pilots could be furloughed as a result of the fleet reduction. Adding insult to injury, a number of furloughed pilots had just been recalled; many had even quit other jobs to rejointhe former Airborne. Boyd says union leaders will be in touch with the Teamsters International to plan their next steps.This news follows the recent management shakeup at DHL. Deutsche Post replaced the CEO for DHL Express Americas after cutting its U.S. forecast and announcing it will post a wider than expected loss in the U.S. as it spends more to win market share from UPS and FedEx.
