Hey Fred, Lose Those Expensive Corporate Jets..We're Broke!!

MrFedEx

Engorged Member
Isolated incidents were meerly am excuse. Something to tell the sheeple why they are loosing yet another Benefit. No doubt it was about cutting cost and liability.
For every incident there were thousands of trips taken incident free. I would say that jumpseaters and interline flyers were far less trouble then the general population knowing what was at stake if they screwed up.

More fine work from the department of smoke and mirrors.

I heard that jumpseat was being reconsidered but that the pilots said no. They don't like lowly hourlies and we disturb their reading of porn.
 

STFXG

Well-Known Member
Just out of curiosity... Do the cargo planes have a bulkhead separating where you would ride in a jump seat from the cockpit?
 

STFXG

Well-Known Member
So under FARs would FedEx be required to upgrade the security doors in order to transport non essential personnel?
 

MrFedEx

Engorged Member
So under FARs would FedEx be required to upgrade the security doors in order to transport non essential personnel?

I don't know, but that's actually a good question. But since we won't be getting jumpseat back, it's irrelevant.
 

STFXG

Well-Known Member
I was just wondering if that would be an excuse not to allow jump seats. The costs of retro fitting the security doors is pretty high. If they took that perk away post 9/11 it could be a reason for it...
 

Ricochet1a

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I was just wondering if that would be an excuse not to allow jump seats. The costs of retro fitting the security doors is pretty high. If they took that perk away post 9/11 it could be a reason for it...

It was taken away in late 2005 - if memory serves me correctly.

If Express really wanted to have jumpseating and "weed out" all the "riff raff" (immature newhires and such...), they could've just placed a requirement to have say 2 or maybe even 3 years of continuous employment in order to jumpseat. That would've knocked out all of the "immature" types who would've potentially caused issues - while preserving the benefit for other employees.

But no, the pilots didn't want to have non-business jumpseating (Express employees who are traveling on Express business, can still jumpseat - again, may have changed in the past year without my knowledge).

So much for FAA regs to blame for jumpseating not being available (the FAA doesn't care if one is traveling for business or not).
 

hypo hanna

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Back in the dqy if you wanted them to be nice you had to bribe them with home made cookies.... I guess the cost is a bit higher for some.
 

Goldilocks

Well-Known Member
True. Pilots horn-dogs. I had to connect the dots for a friend so that he understood why the pilots were so "accommodating".

I have flown with a couple of good ones but also some AH....My favorite pilots were from Flying Tigers Fedex pilots hated them. One time while Jumpseating they put on Steppin Wolf and started rocking the plane back and forth...Loved every minute of it....

MF is correct in saying the pilots are the one's who do not want to bring back JS....Only for buisness travel....
 

DontThrowPackages

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I have flown with a couple of good ones but also some AH....My favorite pilots were from Flying Tigers Fedex pilots hated them. One time while Jumpseating they put on Steppin Wolf and started rocking the plane back and forth...Loved every minute of it....

MF is correct in saying the pilots are the one's who do not want to bring back JS....Only for buisness travel....


I flew with a great crew as well. They were nice enough to wake us up and ask us into the cockpit to view the sun just barely creeping up from behind the ocean. Will take that vision to my grave! Beautiful!
 

Goldilocks

Well-Known Member
You had some nice Pilots. I always flew in the Cockpit until no one was allowed to sit in the cockpit. Some pilots would bring me dinner.
 
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