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X STOCK PLUNGES ON AMAZON AIR, IT STARTS
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<blockquote data-quote="59 Dano" data-source="post: 3850557" data-attributes="member: 23516"><p>"They" (Amazon) don't have any pilots, but the pilots working for the contractors who fly the Amazon Air flights are indeed unhappy.</p><p></p><p>Here's what Exec32 doesn't understand. Amazon is pitting its air contractors against one another in order to drive flight expenses as low as possible. The problem with that is that those carriers don't have the reputations of FedEx Express or UPS Airlines. The pay isn't very good (a topped out captain at Atlas makes less than a 2nd year first officer at FDX, for example), nor are the working conditions, and the performance pales in comparison as well. Turnover is a major problem with some using those jobs simply to gain the experience to fly for FDX/UPS... who are aggressively recruiting replacements for a large number of upcoming retirements. </p><p></p><p>But he thinks the success of the Amazon logistics experiment is a forgone conclusion and the actual execution of the operation is a mere formality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="59 Dano, post: 3850557, member: 23516"] "They" (Amazon) don't have any pilots, but the pilots working for the contractors who fly the Amazon Air flights are indeed unhappy. Here's what Exec32 doesn't understand. Amazon is pitting its air contractors against one another in order to drive flight expenses as low as possible. The problem with that is that those carriers don't have the reputations of FedEx Express or UPS Airlines. The pay isn't very good (a topped out captain at Atlas makes less than a 2nd year first officer at FDX, for example), nor are the working conditions, and the performance pales in comparison as well. Turnover is a major problem with some using those jobs simply to gain the experience to fly for FDX/UPS... who are aggressively recruiting replacements for a large number of upcoming retirements. But he thinks the success of the Amazon logistics experiment is a forgone conclusion and the actual execution of the operation is a mere formality. [/QUOTE]
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