ups new seat bid

[boomlrd]

We will still be in DAY after December, as far as the disgusting looking people with dirty uniforms that work for CAT, I definitely have to agree with you. Remember at CAT its two different types of people - the ones using it as a stepping stone going up, or the guys that can't go anywhere else and are going down. Just type in the last names of some of the guys at CAT in Google, wow some have had quite a past, violations, felonies, we got it all at CAT!

 

[flybrowntails]

saw my upgrade takeoff out of bna the other day.

"you are now cleared for the great wall one arrival, contact tower at chow mein."

 

[Clyde]

TOLD YOU 410DUDE!!! Get your facts straight, contractors are here to stay. Oh yea, what about that crap you claimed about 30 day notices being sent out to the outstation contractors?? UPS is trying to keep competitive, the only way to do that is to keep costs down, ie - cheap labor!! PEACE!

Um, you are aware that brownie's post was sarcastic right?

FWIW, a company does do well by keeping it's costs down. Cheap labor is really a relative term. If a company is in a lot of debt and just barely breaking even, than labor would be the quickest way to start lowering costs. If the company is extremely profitable and has little or no debt and isn't scrambling to cover or renegotiate aircraft leases, than a higher-than-average salary for it's employees can still allow the company to be competitive and profitable.

What can be more damaging and far more worse to a company than labor expense is unreliability.

When you contract stuff out, you lose a lot of control over the reliability that the package is going to arrive where and when it's supposed to. Nothing against the pilots who fly for contractors, but that reliability cannot be assured when stuff is contracted out. And once a product or service is deemed unreliable by a customer base, those customers are going to select another competitor to accomplish that service.

Everyone seems to think that low labor costs are the key here. It has to do with how much total debt the company is under. If your company is heavily leveraged and is somewhat profitable, then great. But, once the economy hiccups a little and the revenue slows down, the profits start to fall. That's when an airline starts looking for concessions and slashing pay. Not because cheap labor=profitability, but because a particular airline may be so heavily leveraged, that labor is the only thing that they can go after.

 

[V-STALL]

Wow, I thought you guys were hiring. Which contractors are hiring now?

410dude- that avatar fits you perfect! Keep up the good work!