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Boyington said:
Like I said, I certainly could be wrong. Googling Super Constellation Turboprop does return quite a few results of turboprop variants.

After further research, it appears that there were a few turboprop variants that were created. One in particular was flown by Flying Tigers (N9746Z) and was used for cargo deliveries.

Source: http://www.conniesurvivors.com/1-QandA.htm
http://www.network54.com/Forum/213163/thread/1035998833/last-1051127865/Lockheed R7V-2
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These were aftermarket modifications, not factory designs.
 
NewYorkophile said:
I'd guess that if the Wiggins operation was doing well enough to run on its own, it wouldn't have been sold. By merging they'll pick up routes and pilots and a few 99s- no reason to keep 3 EMBs when you've already got a Metro schoolhouse.
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Failing businesses are not the only businesses sold. Wiggins could be doing just fine, if not they could have just focused on the Fedex side of things and dumped everything else. AMF is the biggest freight operator in the U.S. and with this acquisition of Wiggins, and some others as of recent, they are even bigger.
 
NewYorkophile said:
I'd guess that if the Wiggins operation was doing well enough to run on its own, it wouldn't have been sold. By merging they'll pick up routes and pilots and a few 99s- no reason to keep 3 EMBs when you've already got a Metro schoolhouse.
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Wiggins is not being sold due to it not making money. It's being sold because of the president of the company wanting to retire, and wanting a big check to ride away on. It is an employee owned company, and he owns the most shares of stock.
 
Groundpounder said:
Wiggins is not being sold due to it not making money. It's being sold because of the president of the company wanting to retire, and wanting a big check to ride away on. It is an employee owned company, and he owns the most shares of stock.
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Sounds exactly like what happened to Ameriflight.
 
Groundpounder said:
Wiggins is not being sold due to it not making money. It's being sold because of the president of the company wanting to retire, and wanting a big check to ride away on. It is an employee owned company, and he owns the most shares of stock.
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That must not be giving the Wiggins guys the warm and fuzzies...
 
Wow, 7 years average longevity meet 7 months. I'm Thinking they will have to treat these pilots slightly different if they want that to continue. Or they will see new neato ways to treat employees well enough to stick around a bit.
 
eightballfreight said:
Wow, 7 years average longevity meet 7 months. I'm Thinking they will have to treat these pilots slightly different if they want that to continue. Or they will see new neato ways to treat employees well enough to stick around a bit.
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We are talking two companies with completely different models. If Wiggins is truly keeping people that long, sounds like people are pretty happy there and the business is modeled as such. AMF is modeled as a revolving door. It is the reason their training department doesn't train, it is the reason they don't care about your QOL, and it is the reason they pay low. They upped the pay and thats great, but Wiggins pays higher... So for how many years has Wiggins made more than AMF, or any other company over AMF for that matter? Even after a pay raise the other freight operators still pay more, it is clear as day they want to keep the revolving door going.

This is getting to the point where management tends to lose sight of pilot group issues. In fact this is a perfect time to get a Union on. You're talking about a pilot group of over 300 with the Wiggins acquisition if I am not mistaking.
 
Inverted said:
This is getting to the point where management tends to lose sight of pilot group issues. In fact this is a perfect time to get a Union on. You're talking about a pilot group of over 300 with the Wiggins acquisition if I am not mistaking.
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Would probably have to come from the Wiggins side. Nobody is at AMF long enough to put the effort into doing all the work to get the ball rolling.
 
My bet is they continue the revolving door, using new hires to replace Wiggins employees, while destroying their QoL. Instead of creating a massive walkout, they will make work just unpleasant enough for the remaining Wiggins guys that they start looking elsewhere. The result is a slower turnover that is within AMF's capability to replace with new blood following the revolving door model.
 
Boyington said:
Well then, welcome to AMF (or Pebbles Aviation). Let me be the first to welcome you. I hope that you guys are well taken care of in regards to pay and QoL.

There are some really good people at AMF, and we hope that it works out well for you.
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Met Jim Martell, Andrew Lotter, and Dave DeRose at the meeting today.
 
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