The rapid growth of e-commerce and a shifting volume mix made necessary FedEx's “fundamental network redesign” focused on both speed and density.
Credit: JoePriesAviation.Net
In the summer of 1975, a then-fledgling Federal Express operated 33 Dassault-Breguet Falcon 20s. Its hub-and-spoke network branched out from Memphis, Tennessee, to 70 airports, linking 5,000 city pairs. “With Memphis as the sorting point for the package operation, each of the aircraft—except for...
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