UPS and FedEx

[maddoggiestyle]

3. Only two bases in the US: MEM and LAX. So most pilots are commuters.

Zog, you forgot about all of us up here in snowy ANC!

 

[Mr Zog]

My utmost apologies to the ANC crews. Heck, I was even based up there for almost 2 years. How easily the mind goes. Please forgive me. I guess I get the next round at the Barrel or Someplace Else.

 

[maddoggiestyle]

I guess I get the next round at the Barrel or Someplace Else.

If that's the case. I'll get the ones in Subic!

 

[gear_guy]

I wouldn't call it sad, but I will be at a major someday, you can count on that!

I would!

 

[pipejockey]

Most of you guys are hillarious. All this bottom feeder talk. WTF is a bottom feeder? If one goes to Mesa, Trans States, Chataqua and the like, they are called "bottom feeders". If this same person leaves those airlines for CAT and the like, they are still called "bottom feeders". So what does a pilot have to do these days not to be branded a "bottom feeder"?

Some of you need to get over yourselves.

 

[FoxHunter]

Life at FedEx:

Everything they do is tied to the bottom line. Employees are just an afterthought. For example, I can fly a plane into Memphis and then jumpseat on the same plane back to my home. When I arrive in Memphis I am immediately branded as a security-risk. I have to go have my luggage x-rayed and hand searched, then escorted back, before I can go back on the same plane I just flew in. Totally outrageous. FedEx's rationale is security is of prime importance, yet at the same time we are looking for exemptions to a secure cockpit. Figure that one out.

I was told by a knowlagable source that this was a result of a MEC demand for one level of security for all jumpseaters. Do you think it may cost just a few dollars for all those security people going through our bags?

 

[Swann757]

So how long can one expect to sit on the panel and UPS and FEDEX?

 

[Goose17]

FedEx

Roughly 8-18 months. It has been a lot longer over the last couple years, but the hiring department is stamping out new second officers at a rapid pace. New hires right now can expect closer to 8-12 months.

Goose17

 

[Swann757]

Thanks Goose17. What panel are the most of the new hires going into btwn the 72 and the 10? How is it decided?

 

[Goose17]

All new hires will go to the 727. During class, there may be a bid and you are free to bid other aircraft. The batch of new hires that I was in class with the last couple months had a bid and a few of them took the back of the 10. They will complete 727 school, fly the line very briefly, then head back to the school house for DC-10 school.

If you hold out a few more months, you might get a right seat in the 727. During the big "postal push", I believe some where hired straight to the back of the 10. Don't expect that in the future.

Goose17