Is on demand cargo dead?

[woog315]

If I have I am having a great time, still living hte dream of a 5 year old. Everyday is a happy day, there are too many negative vibes you just have to ignore them. Never let the bastards grind you down. I can truely say if you expect nothing you can never be disappointed. Life is to short to carry to many burdens.

Yeah, great attitude and all, but you can't just ignore reality and hope to be a useful or interesting person. It has nothing to do with carrying around burdens, and everything to do with manning up and dealing with the circumstances you've been dealt. I guess when people say "Ignorance is bliss" you interpret that as an endorsement of ignorance and a great path to happiness?

 

[tathepilot]

Unemployment pays more than my salary!

 

[aucfi]

Unemployment pays more than my salary!

Ditto

 

[pilotyip]

What reality?

Yeah, great attitude and all, but you can't just ignore reality and hope to be a useful or interesting person. It has nothing to do with carrying around burdens, and everything to do with manning up and dealing with the circumstances you've been dealt. I guess when people say "Ignorance is bliss" you interpret that as an endorsement of ignorance and a great path to happiness?

Which reality am I ignoring? Which one is leading to "Ignorance is bliss"? I agree everything has to do with manning up and dealing with the circumstances you've been dealt. I loose my job, I look at it as an opportunity to find another job I will like even better.

 

[tathepilot]

Now they are telling me I'm needed to work next month. I already planned to move in about a month. Most likely I'll tell them to go scratch.

 

[timeless]

Well, it didn't die.

I don't haul freight anymore, but it looks like it's been a decent 17 months for hauling auto parts. Getting laid off led to a better job for me and two of the FOs I usually flew with are captains now.

 

[belchfire]

There will be a market at some level as long as manufacturers think it is cheaper to move pieces around in airplanes than make them on site...

I wonder at the voodoo accounting the bean counters must use though.

 

[hate2bL8]

boeing predicts the demand for freighters is going to increase steadily over the next ten years due to growth in asia

 

[timeless]

boeing predicts the demand for freighters is going to increase steadily over the next ten years due to growth in asia

I can't tell if you're joking.

I don't think that forecast applies to hauling auto parts in North America.

 

[pilotyip]

The economy is recovering, we are hiring and crews are breaking guarantee on the 10th of the month, it is back, but not like before. It never comes back like before

 

[Way2Broke]

Define before Randy.

 

[pilotyip]

dropped off in 1992, never came back to 1992 levels, dropped off in 2001, never came back to the 2001 levels, dropped off in 2008, is never going to come back to those levels. Look at how many on-demand companies have gone out of business.

 

[belchfire]

dropped off in 1992, never came back to 1992 levels, dropped off in 2001, never came back to the 2001 levels, dropped off in 2008, is never going to come back to those levels. Look at how many on-demand companies have gone out of business.

Got your management hat off for a bit, huh?

The cycles you list seem to coincide with final assembly moving away from Dirtroit...

Yeah, there will always be some demand for on demand-at least until all manufacturing leaves the US or they rediscover the vertical model wherein one company stamps out all of the parts and spares...

I never did understand how it was cheaper to airfreight car parts. Some bean counter must have gotten fracking rich off that concept!

"Hey boss, we can make a gazzilion of them over here for $2M less..."

"Brilliant, Sphincter Boy. Here's your $100K bonus."

no mention of how much it will cost to move the parts from point A to point B...

 

[pilotyip]

I never did understand how it was cheaper to airfreight car parts. Some bean counter must have gotten fracking rich off that concept!"

If you have no left hand kuneton valves on hand and you shut down the assembly line at cost of $1M per hour, suddenly the the left handed what evers stuck in a Canadian snow storm being air delivered to you are cheaper than the line shut down cost. We love this midwest snow storm

 

[Captain Oveur]

But of course that doesn't explain the logistical model involved in requiring multiple
planeloads of gizmotrons to be charter shipped from Mexico to YIP during months of benign
weather....not that I'm complaining.
(and the way I've seen it, shipping volume hardly ever 'comes back' for the same
companies)