WFR8 I thought Atlas was the company you work for. It certainly is the company with which you have a collective bargaining agreement.
True. If you were a policeman in your city who would you work for? The City? or the Police department? The answer is, of course, the city. The city controls the number of cops, the number of cop cars, the local statutes, hires and fires the commissioner or chief. It is a silly argument really. We all work for AAWH and not one of us controls the placement of aircraft, who flys the aircraft, or what contract they fly on.
496 & 498 were wet leased to Polar and operated as Polar flights with Polar call signs. If Atlas had contracted directly with DHL, those flights would have had Giant flight numbers.
Call sign has little to do with the leasing arrangements of the airplanes. Often times we use a GT call sign for an ACMI run. That is one reason ACMI is attractive to many of our customers. We can use the GT call sign when needed. Once again, part of the block space agreement was the DHL would have access to other AAWH lift if and when they needed it.
This issue could be used as a tactical advantage for labor's IBT - Make the keeping of Polar's FE's expensive, and management will have a very large incentive to sooner replace Polar's old CBA with a newer combined one (so as to finally be rid of the Polar FE's).
Please. Do you really think there is a court in this land that will force a company, in this economy, to keep a group of people who have no qualification to fly any of the equipment?