Fedex

By Victoria Moores
Sofia Airport operator SOF Connect is investing BGN500 million ($275 million) in a third terminal, which is expected to be completed within eight years.
Airports & Networks

By Guy Norris, Jens Flottau
Airbus’ freighter ambitions could benefit from the fallout from Boeing’s strategic reset.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Autonomy is coming to commercial aviation. Its first stop: the Cessna Caravan.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Keith Mwanalushi
Cranfield University is investigating how to maximize predictive maintenance benefits with limited or multiple sources of data.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has tapped UPS as its primary domestic air cargo provider, after failing to negotiate new terms with FedEx.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
FedEx pilots are now seeking a release from federal mediation, describing a lack of movement from management on key contract sections.
Airlines & Lessors

By Antoine Fafard
While cargo carrying activity was 4% lower in 2023 than in the previous year, in 2024 global CTKs are forecast to return to 2022 levels.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Christine Boynton
A significant change is coming for FedEx operations, one of its biggest in decades, the company’s CEO says.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
The company has revealed a newly branded component to its restructuring—a “tricolor network,” sorting its FedEx Express aircraft fleet into three categories.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Investigators detail systemic weaknesses and questionable assumptions as likely contributors to a near-collision between a FedEx Boeing 767 and a Southwest 737.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Assumptions about how quickly a Southwest flight would take off when cleared to go in front of an arriving FedEx flight are a key factor in a close call.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois
A project involving fewer pilots on the flight deck is maturing—and meeting increased resistance as a result.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Aaron Karp
The new processing center at Istanbul Airport will give FedEx subsidiary FedEx Express Europe a handling capacity of 3,000 pieces per hour.
Airports & Networks

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The cargo carrier has donated a GE CF6 engine to Marshall University’s Aviation Maintenance Technology program, which launched last year.
Workforce & Training

By Sean Broderick
A wrong-runway landing by a FedEx crew last year underscores the value that benign incidents can play in flagging safety risks.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Aaron Karp
A decline from the big numbers of the COVID-19 pandemic is attributable to geopolitical tensions and other disruptions to global trade and supply chains.
Airports & Networks

By Christine Boynton
FedEx Express will continue taking aircraft out of service in the coming fiscal year as it responds to decreased demand.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Union negotiators from the pilots union, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), and FedEx management reached the tentative agreement on May 30.
Airlines & Lessors