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The proposed contract would have provided for a 30% pay increase, as well as a 30% improvement in pension benefit. Major objections from the rank-and-file are not yet clear. ... The FedEx pilots ...
Changes to the FedEx's defined-benefit pension plan for pilots appear to be the biggest sticking point in negotiations.
FedEx founder and executive chairman Fred Smith speaks with FedEx pilots as they conduct an informational picket in front of the FedEx executive headquarters, 942 Shady Grove Road in Memphis, to ...
Three flight crew members were in the cockpit on this flight: 49-year-old Captain David G. Sanders, who had worked for FedEx for 20 years and previously served with the U.S. Navy for nine years during the Vietnam War; 42-year-old First Officer James M. Tucker Jr., who had worked for FedEx for 10 years and previously served with the U.S. Navy for 12 years during the Vietnam War and People ...
FedEx supplied an MD-11 and a leased 747 for the flight test phase. FedEx Express became the first air carrier to deploy the Guardian on a commercial flight in September 2006, when it equipped an MD-11 freighter with the pod. [93] [94] By December 2007, the company had nine aircraft equipped with the system for further testing and evaluation. [95]
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The flight had an experienced flight crew; the captain, aged 59, who had been working for Flying Tiger Line since July 10, 1978, and became a FedEX pilot when the two companies merged on August 7, 1989. He had logged about 21,000 total flight hours, including 2,602 flight hours in the MD-10 and MD-11 series of aircraft.
FedEx also hopes to convince 400 tenured pilots to take early retirement, the executive said. That message landed as FedEx and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) gathered for the first ...