FedEx pilots face pay cuts, buyouts as contract talks resume

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FedEx Express soon plans to cut the minimum number of flight hours guaranteed to pilots by 13% and...

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Pilots ask FedEx to halt Hong Kong layovers over COVID rules

A white FedEx cargo jet with blue tail climbing through a bright blue sky.

Pilots for Federal Express (NYSE: FDX) are directly appealing to Chairman, CEO and founder Frederick Smith to stop layovers in Hong Kong because of onerous quarantine conditions they say force crews to be hospitalized against their will in substandard quarters and put their well-being at risk.

In a letter posted to Twitter on Friday, Joe DePete, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, repeated calls for the express delivery company to suspend brief rest stays “until these egregious layover...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/pilots-ask-fedex-to-halt-hong-kong-layovers-over-covid-rules

Pilots urge FedEx to suspend Hong Kong flights over COVID mandates

Close up of blue FedEx jet tails. FedEx pilots are upset about COVID health measures in Hong Kong.

Pilots at FedEx Express (NYSE: FDX) are urging the express carrier to suspend flight operations in Hong Kong over concerns about requirements that airline crews submit to mandatory hospital quarantines under what they describe as dangerous conditions.

The FedEx unit of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said late Tuesday that three pilots who tested positive for COVID-19, but were asymptomatic, were forced by Hong Kong authorities to spend up to 10 days in government-selected hospital...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/pilots-urge-fedex-to-suspend-hong-kong-flights-over-covid-mandates

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