FedEx Express

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

Aviation Week Network Staff
Recent personnel developments include changes at major cargo carriers, LCCs from Iceland and Hungary, and major carriers from Panama and the UAE.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
FedEx Express is permanently retiring 22 Boeing 757-200s, as it works to modernize the fleet and better align capacity with current and anticipated demand.
Airlines & Lessors

By Antoine Fafard
For U.S. passenger operators, their $7.8 billion 2023 net profit was $6 billion above 2022’s performance, but still considerably under 2019's $14.8 billion.
Airlines & Lessors

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

Cargo hourly utilization in February 2024 was up 11% year-over-year.
AWIN Knowledge Center

Global passenger aircraft utilization in February 2024 was up 19% year-over-year.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Chen Chuanren
FedEx Express has completed the expansion of its gateway facility at China’s Shenzhen Baoan International Airport.
Airports & Networks

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

Aviation Week Staff
Embraer and Japanese electric motor manufacturer Nidec have received approval for their U.S.-based joint venture Nidec Aerospace,
Advanced Air Mobility

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

By Christine Boynton
FedEx has accelerated retirements of its MD-11 fleet to the end of fiscal 2028, two years earlier than anticipated.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss the McDonnell Douglas MD-11’s legacy now that FedEx and UPS have both announced plans to retire the trijet.
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