Will FedEx ever have class Again???

[waitinginline]

This has been the longest year of my life... When will FedEx have class again? What is going on? Any insight would be appreciated.. Heck, rumors would be good at this point...


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[HOUMAN]

waiting...
I feel your pain. I have been in the SWA pool for a year and a half. Now that SWA has trained 148 (by the way, congrats to all those who started up at SWA today) of the 140 to be trained this year, it doesn't look so good for us slogging it out in the pool. If it makes you feel better, if SWA was to keep on their current plan of training 140 for 2003, they would have to find 8 "new hires" and put them back in the pool. At least FedEx hasn't reached that point yet. As I am about to lose my job, I hope unemployment benefits will keep me going until 2004.

 

[Falconjet]

No rumors

Haven't heard any good rumors about when classes might start up again. For what its worth, there is some good news with the Jun bidpack, but there is some off-setting bad news. The Boeing pack grew by 400 hours from May to June (good), but the DC-10 bidpack shrunk by 600 (bad). As the DC-10's are converted their loads are shifted to other airframes, but I couldn't tell if the others (Bus and MD's) increased to make up the other 200 hours. Perhaps if more work is transferred to the Boeing eventually we will need to bring some more folks into the back. Right now there isn't much open time in the back of the Boeing so the manning must be pretty close to optimal right now. The number of reserve and secondary lines for June actually decreased by 15 but the number of regular lines increased by 15, so there will probably not be too much open in June either.

I wish I could offer some real news, but there's just not much floating around that I have heard. I hope that classes start soon and every member of the swim team can dry off. Hang in there!

FJ

 

[b757driver]

HOUMAN
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As I am about to lose my job, I hope unemployment benefits will keep me going until 2004.
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Don't worry my friend. Should that ever-ready axe fall, provided you have been in F/T employment for @ least the last 12 months, you should rcv the full unemployment for @ least 26 weeks. After that, you will most likely qualify for another 13 weeks - airline or airline-related employees are in a "special" category (I wonder why??!!) of labor according to the fed. govt.
So...to answer your hypothetical Q, yes it should!

Good luck anyway.

From someone who knows.

 

[nightrider]

I don't believe fredex ever had any class to begin with.

Nightrider