Help us to keep our european cargo jobs
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BeCA
The BeCA. What a group of highly competant, non racist, worldly & astute people they are. They worked so hard to save sabena & VX. And today they are trying so hard to help Brussels Airlines survive.
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I did not know that the Belgian regulations require a third man in the cockpit before reaching 8 hours (the limit for US internatonal rules), but it is always interesting to learn something more.
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Get in touch with the French Union. There have been major changes in legislation recently, basically within the EU you now are based from a tax point of view wherever you start your duty, irrespective of what your contract says.
This has lead to the closure of the Paris "base" by Cathay Pacific for example. I personally do not mind open skies for pilots, but as long as European pilots are not allowed to work in the U.S. we should not allow US pilots to work in Europe. |
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That legislation only refers to Social charges , Taxation is governed by tax treaties between individual EU states as each state is responsible for its own Taxation rates within the EU
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I personally do not mind open skies for pilots, but as long as European pilots are not allowed to work in the U.S. we should not allow US pilots to work in Europe. |
Non-US citizen need a Green Card, so effectively are banned.
And yes, the law change refers to social contributions etc, that is quite correct. I am not a lawyer, but I understand this wil have implications on tax as well. |
Non-US citizens need a greencard to work in the US...
Non-EU citizens more often than not require an unrestricted European passport, aka they have to acquire EU/EEA citizenship... So effectively banned/locked out from all but a handful of companies |
The EU is not, despite many attempts to prove the opposite, to be considered as one single domestic market. Thus, when Fed/UPS are flying BCN-CGN/CDG they're operating an international flight, and are as free to do that as DHL would be to fly CVG-somewhere not in the US.
FX can even operate BCN-MAD-CGN, and pick-up freight along the way in MAD for delivery anywhere outside of Spain. What they can't do, however, is pick-up freight in BCN and drop it off in MAD, if final destination of the freight is in Spain. At least not by a US registered aircraft. But they are free to do so on a surface going movement and trucks are really handy for those kind of situations. Imagining how a DHL owned, US based, operation similar to the FedEX/UPS setup in Europe would get off the ground, is an interesting thought. One has an inkling it would spark quite a noteworthy reaction. Besides that the quoted website is just a bit inconsistent. Not in the least by prominently displaying an EAT B757, an airline which is now domiciled in Germany and paints nice German flags on their aeroplanes. The irony is, if you don't mind me saying, '''ing hilarious. |
there's always more to the truth!
Another fact that website fails to note is the large number of European pilots and planes that DO fly intra-Europe for UPS. Star Airlines flies TEN B767 freighters intra-Europe under contract to UPS, and MNG also flies several routes for UPS.
I'm a pilot for UPS, and I do not fly, nor endorse cabotage. The bilateral agreements made between our individual governments determines the level of service I can provide on all the international routes I fly. Cabotage is not allowed under any of those agreements. That's why UPS has so many EU contractors supplementing our CGN operation. I would not be surprised to find that a majority of the intra-Europe UPS volume IS flown by EU pilots. Plus, a LOT of international volume (everything from Africa, S America, Russia) comes to the EU via belly freight on passenger jets for distribution via our air and ground networks. |
...which would and should imply a SINGLE market. But until then CDG-FRA is comparable to ORD-YYZ, not ORD-JFK. |
......Airlines of the European Union are also allowed to fly between the United States and non-EU countries ........ |
European pilots and planes that DO fly intra-Europe for UPS
Another fact that website fails to note is the large number of European pilots and planes that DO fly intra-Europe for UPS. Star Airlines flies TEN B767 freighters intra-Europe under contract to UPS, and MNG also flies several routes for UPS. Star Air Services MNG Airlines MNG AIRLINES Solinair Solinair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bluebird Cargo Bluebird Cargo - Bluebird Cargo Farnair FARNAIR EUROPE - Cargo & Passenger AIRLINE West Air Cargo Airlines / Home - West Atlantic Atran ATRAN acquires its first Boeing 737, will operate for UPS | World Airline News |
Fact is, that US carriers operate within Europe without paying taxes and taking the jobs of european pilots. UPS Europe Region Fact Sheet - UPS Pressroom |
But the U.S. is a country. The EU isn't. Flying between countries within the EU is still an international flight despite being within a "Union".
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Negative.
TheEuropean Common Economic Area, basically Shengen, is one area and any flight wihin that area can be considered as cabotage. This is currently being looked at and hopefully, UPS and FEDEX will be obliged to use European registered aircraft with EASA licence holders on these routes. |
Fact remains that EU operators do not have the same rights in the US as the US operators have in Europe. If you want Europe to be a single country then you know what you have to do. But you can not have your cake and eat it too, anymore than Mexico/Canada/United States can pretend that NAFTA is something that it is not. |
Will be corrected soon and then we will see then end of this travesty.
NO MORE UPS and FEDEX US aircraft and pilots, and a huge job opportunity for the thousants of European Pilots out of work. |
Does Fedex or UPS carry cargo within the EU ?
For eg does Fedex carry cargo locally within EU say from CDG to MAD on US registered aircraft ? Can someone send a package that originates in Paris and sent to Madrid on a US registered FEDEX or UPS Aircraft ? |
Edie, What exactly is your point? That those jobs (and taxes) would not exist if UPS and Fedex would use EU registered aircrafts? Fact remains that EU operators do not have the same rights in the US as the US operators have in Europe. |
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