General Lee
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You guys are way off. Try over 300 Pilot Widebody jobs are being outsourced. General once again you don't know what you are talking about we have been doing plenty of Asia Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Flying with the Pax birds and freighters. We fly multiple trips to AMS and Germany, Kuwait, Spain, Afghanistan etc. etc. both Pax and Freight as well as Charter.
I still can't figure out how you guys think that a 777 should pay the same as a 747 when a 747 can carry 125 more people and or cargo and outweighs it by over 120,000 pounds. All those extra people and not a dollar of that revenue because of pride. It is time to swallow the pride and quit letting our scope get pissed on.
No, you are full of BS. That's great that you have the occasional charter here and there, but as the arbitrators stated, your 742 jobs were going away anyway. The MAJORITY of your 742 flights were from ANC to the Pacific Rim, and YOU KNOW IT. I saw recently a NWA 744 in Frankfurt Hahn, probably a MAC charter. Well, that 744 is still going to be around (although 5 will be parked for the Fall/Winter)---and Delta will still use some of those 744s to REPLACE the 742s (pax versions) on those MAC contracts. And guess what cheesecake? The Arbitrators decided the pay rates. The extra costs of maintaining those old 742s was just too much---for even a super profitable company like UPS too. But hey, you want them to stick around even if they are expensive.
Bye Bye--General Lee
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