FedEx Plans $2.6 Billion Boeing 757-For-727 Upgrade

FedEx Corp. intends to replace its Boeing 727-200s with 757-200s during the coming decade -- if it can find enough of them, fast enough -- under a $2.6 billion program to buy and modify the aircraft. The company had 94 727-200s on May 31, at the end of its 2006 fiscal year, and it plans to acquire...

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