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On 9/16/2002 7:08:02 AM Bob Owens wrote:
Magsua;
So in other words FED Ex pilots get paid less but they have the opportunity to make it up in OT. The point I was trying to make is that UAL777Flyer was implying that Freight pays better because its the business. If that was the case then their pilots should receive an hourly wage that is 20% higher also.
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Actually, If you consider the actual hour rate at Fed Ex and UPS, the pilots there can make considerably more. If your route consists of only 2 hours of flying each night (out and back) and you are paid for 5 hours due to duty and trip rigs, your actual hour rate goes up big time. The net effect would be a Fed Ex guy flying overtime and logging a total of 60 actual hours, but over 80 credit time in a month, while a mainline pilot flies 75 hour and gets paid 75 hours. as for it being easy to start a cargo operation, it's easy to start a bulk cargo or contract cargo company, starting another UPS or Fed EX with the infrastucture, would be next to impossible. Imagine how much revenue is in a container of overnight delivery mail.