FedEx Training Letter Out!

[1st Overnite]

I have a week long trip starting on a Monday and my class starts on Wednesday. I am assuming that they drop the whole trip and put the time in MU. Can anyone clarify this for me? Thanks.

 

[Falconjet]

I have a week long trip starting on a Monday and my class starts on Wednesday. I am assuming that they drop the whole trip and put the time in MU. Can anyone clarify this for me? Thanks.

Yes, you will get taken off that trip. Probably won't even get put into substitution due to the short buffer before the training. Which class?

Have fun.

FJ

 

[1st Overnite]

Yes, you will get taken off that trip. Probably won't even get put into substitution due to the short buffer before the training. Which class?

End of June B727 F/O.

 

[USNFDX]

I have a week long trip starting on a Monday and my class starts on Wednesday. I am assuming that they drop the whole trip and put the time in MU. Can anyone clarify this for me? Thanks.

Actually they will drop the trip, and you will get paid for it(trip guarantee), they may or may not put you into substitution but highly unlikely they could assign you a trip>

 

[HoursHore]

I will no longer state:

I am not eligible for passover pay

so don't send me any Emails.

 

[Fox-Tree]

Won't be eligible for passover pay for a training date swap. All the interviening seniority numbers would have to state in writing that "they give up passover pay" prior to the company approving the swap.

:bawling: oh. nevermind.

 

[Falconjet]

I also got pushed. 4 more months. Pisses me off.

Look at the bright side. If you got pushed due to new hires, you will get passover pay. Plus you will get much better choices for vacation for next year than if you just activated into the new seat (very junior) right before the first vacation bid. That gives you a better shot at a decent vacation schedule next year.

If you got pushed back by senior guys bidding into the seat, that you will just have to get used to. That is one of the downsides of the quick movement, as folks will be continually coming in above you and you may find yourself losing seniority for quite a while in your new seat as the "campers" come in on top of you. That is the way it goes.

Something for newhires to consider if they have a choice of seat. You might want to pick the seat that you think will have more new hires coming into it behind you rather than any window seat.

Last year guys who took the DC-10 back seat had nowhere to go but down as the over 60 guys continue to come in on top of them, where the 727 guys moved up a little almost every month. Now the -10 job might be easier, but having people coming in behind you is what gets you off reserve and on a regular line sooner.

Just something to consider.

FJ

 

[USNFDX]

We'll see what happens, but the corp world might be calling. This whole thing sucks.

I said this before, and I'll say it again.

There are 10000+ guys that would gladly step over your DEAD body to take your spot.

Many of us recently spent up to 3 years in the back seat, and years back there were guys who spent 5+++ years haul'n the jug.

 

[HoursHore]

We'll see what happens, but the corp world might be calling. This whole thing sucks.

I would think that the image of a certian movie star burned in your retinas would have made you swear off that life forever. uke:

 

[VaB]

I said this before, and I'll say it again.

There are 10000+ guys that would gladly step over your DEAD body to take your spot.

Many of us recently spent up to 3 years in the back seat, and years back there were guys who spent 5+++ years haul'n the jug.

No shizz. Who lit the friggin whining lamp? Ballsy.

Well since it's on, I got soaked at JFK this morning in that crazy delicious rain.

 

[PurpleInMEM]

I said this before, and I'll say it again.

There are 10000+ guys that would gladly step over your DEAD body to take your spot.

Many of us recently spent up to 3 years in the back seat, and years back there were guys who spent 5+++ years haul'n the jug.

Until they are here for a while....then they just feel like a dead body.

You guys enjoy your "raises" for going to training now, ya hear!

 

[FedEx1]

Many of us recently spent up to 3 years in the back seat, and years back there were guys who spent 5+++ years haul'n the jug.

Heck, I have a window seat, and I'm STILL hauling the jug!!!! And I usually forget that I don't need it when I am lucky enough to get an -11 (as opposed to an MD-10) and I end up carrying the dang thing around when I don't have to.

I sat in the Fedex pool for 2 years. And, yeah, I kinda whined. But I didn't whine on flightinfo. I whined to my friends, family, and anyone else that wanted to know why I always had my phone with me. In case KD called, of course!!!!!

First thing when I got on the property? Whining guys in the right seat of the Boeing because they "didn't move for the last few years." Boo hoo, I cried a river for them....

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes......

 

[AlbieF15]

I have no beef with guys who hate the panel. The better life is for a new hire, the better it is for all of us.

Now--for those of you guys who WILL not sign a letter allowing trading date swaps, expect a blanket party from some of the guys. For me--I hope you pull it off--because I want all those guys senior to me on the boeing to GET OFF NOW and not trade dates for a year down the road. So I say to you--hold the line and make 'em move!

HEHEHEHEHE. Even rolling in ice cream and chocolate we can find stuff to complain about...

 

[ILStoMinimums]

Any regional guys getting on at FDX? Any with TP PIC? Or only jet PIC? I thought FDX didn't hire guys who were already flying a heavy somewhere else? Has that changed?

 

[fartknocker]

Any regional guys getting on at FDX? Any with TP PIC? Or only jet PIC?

Yes, there are several. Most of my PIC time is TP. Good luck.

 

[ILStoMinimums]

Great, looks like your with AE? Best....

 

[Quiet Flight]

All regional. All TP. Zero jet.

 

[capt_zman]

I definitely had some whine the other day when I saw the training letter. Being displaced by another 4 mos, which in the grand scheme of things is nothing, but it does cost me about 25k in salary. I'd like to meet somebody that loses 25k and is happy about it.

And while the whine is flowing:
Show up for a 1 day, gets extended to a 4 day (with no telephone call), tooling around in 200 and 1/2 in a 1966 -100 with an 10 degree continuously oscillating capt ADI and an intermittent gyro and steer flag on the co-pilot ADI. Head to hotel, only to have a cackling crackwhore and her boy toy Rico getting it on in the room above me while I'm trying to sleep wearing the same underwear I've had on for 3 days.

Just having a bad karma week, but the 20-25k chaps my a$$.

 

[twiceskunkeddog]

Show up for a 1 day, gets extended to a 4 day (with no telephone call), tooling around in 200 and 1/2 in a 1966 -100 with an 10 degree continuously oscillating capt ADI and an intermittent gyro and steer flag on the co-pilot ADI. Head to hotel, only to have a cackling crackwhore and her boy toy Rico getting it on in the room above me while I'm trying to sleep wearing the same underwear I've had on for 3 days.

Just having a bad karma week, but the 20-25k chaps my a$$.

That's the funniest way to describe a crappy trip I've ever seen...

 

[propjob27]

I'm sitting in the terminal, very bored, so I'll try to answer two recent questions.

One,

I thought FDX didn't hire guys who were already flying a heavy somewhere else? Has that changed?

I depends on what airline you are flying for. There are a couple of ex-Continental drivers who recently made the switch to FedEX. It also doesn't matter either way if you are a heavy CAL driver or a CAL 737 pilot. There was also a JetBlue guy in my new hire class.

From what I remember from the mass email about this is:

They won't hire guys who are actively flying for a "hurting" major. ie, FedEX won't interview guys who are active United, AMR, DAL, UsAir, and NWA. (but they will and often do hire furloughed pilots from these carriers)

However, they will hire guys from legacies who are doing financially OK (Continental) and from LCC's like JetBlue, AirTran, Frontier, etc. (not sure about Alaska)

Hell, just to spite some people on this msg board, I'd be willing to bet FedEX would hire Southwest guys too

I'm not sure what the current policy (if there even is one) on hiring an active guy from a hurting LCC, like ATA.

Two,

Any regional guys getting on at FDX? Any with TP PIC? Or only jet PIC?

Yes. They are. In my class, there was a SAAB guy from Mesaba (no jet PIC), and a ex Indy-Air guy (jet PIC). In class a few months prior to that, there was a Mesa CRJ guy. In the most recent class they ran, I know of one SkyWest guy (Don't know if he had RJ PIC time)


Hope the info helps