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UAL747400 said:
BQN is FedEx for us, so it would be
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I know you're a big amflight kool aid drinker, but doesn't it make a whole heck of a lot more sense to have one of the fedex feeders that already runs the ATR do that? (Not to mention I think they are probably generally better operations, at least from what I hear).
 
Roger Roger said:
I know you're a big amflight kool aid drinker, but doesn't it make a whole heck of a lot more sense to have one of the fedex feeders that already runs the ATR do that? (Not to mention I think they are probably generally better operations, at least from what I hear).
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Hey, I just fly the plane. Thats up to FedEx.

I actually wish FedEx would give Mountain Air the Valencia run. It's seriously screwing up QOL at this base for us. We're doing 2 Brasilias down there 2 days a week. Which means a Metro has to go to Barbados, long day, really late getting back and it takes away reserve days.

Probably won't happen. Mountain Air was pretty unreliable this year. They seemed fine until they moved the base manager to the states. I'm not sure they have the planes anyways
 
UAL747400 said:
Hey, I just fly the plane. Thats up to FedEx.

I actually wish FedEx would give Mountain Air the Valencia run. It's seriously screwing up QOL at this base for us. We're doing 2 Brasilias down there 2 days a week. Which means a Metro has to go to Barbados, long day, really late getting back and it takes away reserve days.

Probably won't happen. Mountain Air was pretty unreliable this year. They seemed fine until they moved the base manager to the states. I'm not sure they have the planes anyways
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If they had spare ATR's in the FedEx system, I think they'd send one out to Montana on that run that AMF does.
 
UAL747400 said:
Just read the one that was handed to us in class. It allows us to go above 7500, on the Brasilia only it seems. We would need to get another exemption if they buy another aircraft type. I don't know where I got that 30000 pound number. Maybe that's the FedEx limit for feeder/supplemental carriers. I don't know.

Part of the exemption requires compliance with a bunch of 121 regs, mostly regarding maintenence, so I'm not sure we're operating cheaper than Skywest
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I don't think I have anything they handed me in class, and since I never flew the brazilia I'm sure I would have tossed that piece of paper. I'm going off what KLB posted, I don't see why it would read different than what is on the bottom of that page.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
If they had spare ATR's in the FedEx system, I think they'd send one out to Montana on that run that AMF does.
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When I was there they only places AMF ran 227s ad 1900s on FedEx was when an ATR42 was too big and a caravan was too small. I think that billings run has an AMF airplane because a ATR makes no sense. Just like JAC.
 
Roger Roger said:
I know you're a big amflight kool aid drinker, but doesn't it make a whole heck of a lot more sense to have one of the fedex feeders that already runs the ATR do that? (Not to mention I think they are probably generally better operations, at least from what I hear).
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Eh, idk, I'm not impressed at all with the FedEx feeders. The ATR at empire/MAC for PIC is like 45k a year. I think AMF pays their metro/1900 drivers better. The 208s are in the low to mid 30s unless you spend a lifetime there.
I talked to empire about the ATR up here back before .436. You'd probably make more as a Horizon/Penair FO, and I know both us and Aero Air pay the BE20 SICs more than the ATR PICs make.
 
UAL747400 said:
Not familiar. The Billings one? I thought that was a Metro run.
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Kalispell is all that's left out there.

z987k said:
When I was there they only places AMF ran 227s ad 1900s on FedEx was when an ATR42 was too big and a caravan was too small. I think that billings run has an AMF airplane because a ATR makes no sense. Just like JAC.
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The Kalispell run was an ATR until AMF got it, and they got it because Empire was down an ATR after they had that fun time in Midland a few years ago.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Kalispell is all that's left out there.



The Kalispell run was an ATR until AMF got it, and they got it because Empire was down an ATR after they had that fun time in Midland a few years ago.
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Ah. Well JAC was an ATR for a long while to, but they found it cheaper to just run the 1900 and ask for a 99 when they actually needed one(about never) rather than run an ATR for 3x the cost of the 1900. I think they actually truck some of it to... however that works.
 
I didn't read too deeply into it as I was on my way out, and now I don't remember where I left it. It was regarding being paid lower than minimum wage, and some shady stuff regarding final paychecks.
 
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