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Old 5th Sep 2009, 14:55
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TheWanderer "When a freight forwarder FF contracts airline A to move freight, the freight becomes A's freight. If A is now not able to move the freight BECAUSE THEY ARE ON STRIKE! and subcontracts another airline B, it still remains A's freight".

Period.

The other airlines, truckers, trains etc. can try and justify moving AmeriJet's freight anyway they like. Struck freight is struck freight, anyone that comes to Miami and moves that freight are scabs!
You are wrong on 2 counts:

1. You misquoted Wanderer and inserted your own commentary as his quote.

2. Amerijet does not "have" any freight that has not been consigned to it.

Freight is consigned to airlines by freight forwarders. "Struck freight" would include freight already consigned to Amerijet but not yet delivered at the time of the strike. Can you identify any such cargo?

Unless a forwarder has an EXCLUSIVE contract with a particular airline, that forwarder can choose any airline he wants for any load or portion thereof. The freight does not "belong to" any airline until it is consigned to that airline.

After the strike started, if a forwarder who usually consigns freight to Amerijet decides to use another airline for subsequent freight, that freight does NOT belong to Amerijet and is NOT "struck freight."
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