scooter2525
Very well Member
I know a few that were AMFers
RIP AMF OAK
- Thread starter Cal Goat
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Maurus
The Great Gazoo
Nah. You just "know"
z987k
Well-Known Member
Oh, I'm familiar with -
There's a mountain 2000 feet over there.
Where? I don't see anything.
It's there, that's why were going over here. Following this river at 500 ft.
scooter2525
Very well Member
Forget that. Got carbon monoxide poisoning flying there one morning.
Cal Goat
Prestige Worldwide™
Tommay85
Well-Known Member
YOUR dangerous!
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
Who is the base manager now or was? It's been several years since I was there
Inverted
mmmmmm wine
The Cooch monster.
Cal Goat
Prestige Worldwide™
It's the same base manager. And it will always be. He won't retire until the old OAK base has turned to ash.
Cal Goat
Prestige Worldwide™
Who made the video?
It's a pretty fitting tribute to the final days there. I would get depressed just being upstairs with the empty classroom, offices and conference room. It was like a ghost town. One couldn't help but think about the hundred (maybe even thousands?) of pilots that cut their freight doggy teeth in that place over the years. I still don't see why the focus couldn't have been shifted away from checks- especially since AMF claims to have anticipated this drop in business over a decade ago.
I'm not a business man by any stretch, but obviously the infrastructure was there to continue regional cargo ops for years to come. And coinciding with that decline in bank work was an increase in internet based business that is heavily reliant on shipping. OAK was already a cargo hub of sorts (mostly Fed Ex, but still...).
So a couple of grubby Caravans and 402s control 95% of the UPS and DHL regional work instead of [allegedly] the biggest and best 135 cargo company in the country? (No offense, Redding and Martinaire) I don't get it.
Wait... considering the base manager of AMF East Bay
I think I do get it. No wonder the pilots from other companies are cracking jokes about him by name!
It's a pretty fitting tribute to the final days there. I would get depressed just being upstairs with the empty classroom, offices and conference room. It was like a ghost town. One couldn't help but think about the hundred (maybe even thousands?) of pilots that cut their freight doggy teeth in that place over the years. I still don't see why the focus couldn't have been shifted away from checks- especially since AMF claims to have anticipated this drop in business over a decade ago.
I'm not a business man by any stretch, but obviously the infrastructure was there to continue regional cargo ops for years to come. And coinciding with that decline in bank work was an increase in internet based business that is heavily reliant on shipping. OAK was already a cargo hub of sorts (mostly Fed Ex, but still...).
So a couple of grubby Caravans and 402s control 95% of the UPS and DHL regional work instead of [allegedly] the biggest and best 135 cargo company in the country? (No offense, Redding and Martinaire) I don't get it.
Wait... considering the base manager of AMF East Bay
I think I do get it. No wonder the pilots from other companies are cracking jokes about him by name!
scooter2525
Very well Member
I'll show you private!
scooter2525
Very well Member
Such a good point. I always felt like at that bases pinnacle, it was something amazing. Busy pilots, dispatch, people in offices etc. Of course when I see major industry die down, I feel sad.
