FedEx Seat Bid

[FoxHunter]

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Did someone fart? I mean one of those wet, smelly, persistent Taco Bell farts?
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Sonny, did you mess yourself again? Reach down and check your diaper. Your mom will get you out of them as soon as you can handle it.

 

[MemTrash]

I finished Bus Capt training last month. I was on the 11 for 6 years as an F/O. The guy I was paired up with was a new hire going to Subic. He flew G4's in the Navy and corporate. I'm not sure who is best at what but he smoked the program. Every instructor couldn't believe he was a new hire. Neither of us studied the FMS much at all and we had no problems with the program.My comment is that I think new hires would do better going straight to the 11 over the Bus. The MD works all the time the Bus does not. The FMS is weak and flawed. You have to watch it all the time. It climbs out over 250, it does not honor any restriction going up, and screws up a lot of them coming down. Asia flying is easier than the US anyway. May be sour grapes but I miss the 11 and will go back ASAP. Hub-turning again sucks!

The original ? was about the bid. I heard it was ready to be sent (200 WB capt) but that the Paris domicile was back on they didn't know weather they should go ahead with the bid and have another bid for Paris, or hold this bid and do it at the same time. Also, he said we had 57 A300s waiting and that most of the movement would be to the Bus. Anyone else hear anything like that?

 

[twgordy]

If Paris is a hub would it be A300 or MD11 crews based there?

 

[mongopilot]

If Paris is a hub would it be A300 or MD11 crews based there?

A300's would be doing the flying.

 

[FedEx1]

More rumors..... that when we move the asian base to China, MD-10's will be the aircraft out there, not the Airbus......

 

[PurpleTail]

More rumors..... that when we move the asian base to China, MD-10's will be the aircraft out there, not the Airbus......

Uh, thats not a rumor, that has been the plan all along. MD-11, A-380 will do the ocean crossings and the -10's intra-Asia.

The question is...will China be a base or will it be SIBA?

 

[FedEx1]

It's always a rumor until it is painted purple and sitting on the ramp. Heck, the plan was to get rid of the 727's in 1989.... Just trying to get out the info, and confuse as few as possible!

To add to that... keep a domicile in asia, but no one has said where. May not be in mainland China. I don't think they have it figured out.

I had heard from a check airman this week the seat bid was coming out Aug 5 for 100 widebody capts. No telling how many people would move with that.

 

[AlbieF15]

Enough trash talk, lets make a bet...

Junior MD11 FO at each base? A300 FO? Widebody and 727 captain? I'll throw out I think JR 727 captain will be May 02 hire...(optimistic but the stakes are play money here...) The Class of 96 will get their first widebody captain.

 

[angry tanker]

Alright Albie, you're on. Junior Wide body (both 11 and 300) will be a summer hire this year (class date before end of july). I'll give you 3 years to Capt of 72, and I'll go 5 years to Capt MD-11, but will be ANC.

 

[fartknocker]

This is not entirely true. American Eagle has a pilot base in SJU. 95% of our flights at SJU go to and from international destinations. I flew there for 2 years. There are several different countries represented in the Carribbean. These are just my thoughts.

 

[profile]

Carribean, by agreement, uses U.S. ATC procedures.

 

[fartknocker]

Carribean, by agreement, uses U.S. ATC procedures.

This is true in Puerto Rico, STT, and STX, but not in all the other islands in the Carribean. Once you get outside these 3, you are under ICAO rules. We flew all the way down the island chain from Tortola, to Trinidad and Tobago, and everything in between, and they were under ICAO.

 

[klhoard]

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Sometimes we even fly to California. If that doesn't qualify as International, I don't know what will.
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[profile]

The entire area is _supposed_ to use U.S. phraseology and procedures by LOA (an argument that was actually promulgated by FAA ATS management as a reason the U.S. shouldn't switch to ICAO terminology, you sort out that logic!), and if you look at the country differences, you'll see the local rules for each of the locations in the Carribean closely follow U.S. procedures. Sure, they're under ICAO, so is the U.S., but the U.S. publishes more exceptions to ICAO than just about any other country in the World.

Having flown both the area you're talking about and the "hard core" International on the other side of the planet, you're really talking apples and oranges here.

 

[fartknocker]

This sounds like some of the other arguments I've heard:

Is FedEx a major or cargo airline?

Is _________ (insert favorite large regional airline) a commuter or major airline?

Is Carribean international or domestic flying?

I just thought that when we were climbing out of FL 40 and setting the altimeter to 29.92, we were flying international. I've never seen this in the U.S. When we came back to SJU, we had to go through customs and immigration to enter the U.S. I thought that was international flying. Our flight ops were all flag operations rather than domestic according to our flight manual and ops specs.

I guess there are two sides to any argument.