ups767mech
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UPS announced today during our quarterly earnings report that we will accelerate the retirement of our DC-8 fleet. The fleet will be retired by the end of May 2009.
UPS has planned for several years to retire the DC-8 by 2013 as part of the Airline’s ongoing fleet modernization strategy. Given reduced air volume, we are flying a more optimized network and are thus able to accelerate this fleet’s planned retirement. The acceleration of the DC-8 fleet retirement has no negative impact on our customers, our geographic service areas, or our product service levels.
The DC-8 was the last UPS fleet-type to operate with a three-person crew. The retirement of the DC-8 will result the loss of the flight engineer position in our workforce. Under FAA regulations, approximately 40 UPS flight engineers will be ineligible to transition to a captain or first officer crewmember position in our remaining fleet. As such these pilots will go on an inactive status.
Overall, UPS has approximately 270 crewmembers assigned to the DC-8 fleet. The absence of the DC-8 will add to our flight crew overstaffing situation. As such, we are continuing to explore options regarding this overstaffing.
Just another excuse for more layoffs in the aircraft maintenance dept.
UPS has planned for several years to retire the DC-8 by 2013 as part of the Airline’s ongoing fleet modernization strategy. Given reduced air volume, we are flying a more optimized network and are thus able to accelerate this fleet’s planned retirement. The acceleration of the DC-8 fleet retirement has no negative impact on our customers, our geographic service areas, or our product service levels.
The DC-8 was the last UPS fleet-type to operate with a three-person crew. The retirement of the DC-8 will result the loss of the flight engineer position in our workforce. Under FAA regulations, approximately 40 UPS flight engineers will be ineligible to transition to a captain or first officer crewmember position in our remaining fleet. As such these pilots will go on an inactive status.
Overall, UPS has approximately 270 crewmembers assigned to the DC-8 fleet. The absence of the DC-8 will add to our flight crew overstaffing situation. As such, we are continuing to explore options regarding this overstaffing.
Just another excuse for more layoffs in the aircraft maintenance dept.