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Old 7th Oct 2013, 22:47
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I thought Calloway came to Fedex via the Flying Tigers buyout. Was he not already flying for Tigers?
Auburn Calloway was at Gulf Air out of Biloxi, Mississippi (not the one out of BAH) flying L-188's in 1987 when he was hired by Tigers. He tried the trick of calling in sick and claiming jury duty to keep both jobs. This stunt seems incredible but I personally knew of another guy who tried it in the late '80's. RP was at PSA and got hired by United, kept both jobs, caught, fired both places and hired by a third airline and fired again. He somehow claimed he was on the strike bus in '85 or something and recently retired at UAL after successfully wrapping himself in the ALPA mantle.

Anyway, Auburn got fired at Gulf Air and Tigers and was hired by FedEx in 1988 shortly before FedEx bought Tigers late in the year. Auburn was less than candid about his employment history and greatly pencil whipped his Navy pilot in command time on his FedEx application.
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