General Lee
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This sets a dangerous precedent that an airline that once (and currently) has a strong all cargo division, employing well over 100 senority list pilots, is now creating an international joint venture to have its cargo flown by non-senority list, non-american pilots.
Even if it is not currently meant for ANC/NRT flying, in the future if Delta so chooses to run dedicated cargo flights through this portion of the world, do you think they will order and fly aircraft with senority list Delta pilots or add someone like Korean Air Cargo to the their cargo joint venture? I think I know the answer...
Again, we should watch this and make sure we do not allow that, but at the same time, can you find some NEW Cargo planes we could replace the 742s with? Are there any MD11 cargo birds out there? How about 744s? (some are parked in the desert, but not in cargo mods) How many could we get? There are some passenger airlines that do cargo well, (Korean, JAL, ANA (and NCA), AF, Martinair, KLM, Emirates, etc) and then we had old planes at NWA Cargo that had to eventually go, and no replacement was insight. That is the problem here. Nothing more fuel efficient to replace the 742s. Sad but true. Would I like to find some new 777Fs (like Air France has) and start it back up again in ANC after they shut it down in December? YES. Will we? I don't think so.
Bye Bye--General Lee