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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 998358" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>Of course they can. The RLA applies to a company's PERSONNEL, not to its volume. If Express really had some reason to radically alter, it could spin off the post-aircraft overland movement of its volume to contractors and STILL MAINTAIN the RLA for the personnel who are actually EMPLOYEES of Express. The RLA covers EMPLOYEES.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Absolutely nothing.</p><p></p><p>Again, its NOT THE VOLUME that is covered by RLA - it is the PERSONNEL. The only thing that is keeping Express from completely devolving DGO is the FAA requirements for air cargo handling (<u>the people</u>) from the time before the cargo hits the aircraft to the time the cargo leaves the airport. </p><p></p><p>Once the cargo leaves the destination airport, there is no longer a requirement to have PERSONNEL trained in the movement of air cargo - since the cargo is no longer "air cargo" (it has been "delivered" to its destination airport as far as air cargo regulations are concerned). Cartage agents can be used and the FAA doesn't give a rat's butt from that point on.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Absolutely. Its called using a cartage agent - and was actually the common practice before Federal Express decided to do some vertical integration and offer "door-to-door" air cargo service.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 998358, member: 22880"] Of course they can. The RLA applies to a company's PERSONNEL, not to its volume. If Express really had some reason to radically alter, it could spin off the post-aircraft overland movement of its volume to contractors and STILL MAINTAIN the RLA for the personnel who are actually EMPLOYEES of Express. The RLA covers EMPLOYEES. Absolutely nothing. Again, its NOT THE VOLUME that is covered by RLA - it is the PERSONNEL. The only thing that is keeping Express from completely devolving DGO is the FAA requirements for air cargo handling ([U]the people[/U]) from the time before the cargo hits the aircraft to the time the cargo leaves the airport. Once the cargo leaves the destination airport, there is no longer a requirement to have PERSONNEL trained in the movement of air cargo - since the cargo is no longer "air cargo" (it has been "delivered" to its destination airport as far as air cargo regulations are concerned). Cartage agents can be used and the FAA doesn't give a rat's butt from that point on. Absolutely. Its called using a cartage agent - and was actually the common practice before Federal Express decided to do some vertical integration and offer "door-to-door" air cargo service. [/QUOTE]
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