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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 667280" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>My point is that Fred has a vested interest in keeping the idea that FedEx is solely an airline alive and well. Yes, there is an airline component of FDX...just like UPS, but nobody calls UPS an "airline". The real airlines use FedEx heavily because they get a 75% discount, and I'm guessing Smith keeps this money-losing deal active not so we can get flight benefits, but to keep the "airline" facade intact.</p><p> </p><p>FedEx and UPS are both <em>systems integrators </em>that fly airplanes in support of some of their delivery operations. Both are way too diversified to be bona fide "airline" operations. If United Airlines all of a sudden decided to get into the package business, and bought 100,000 trucks and hundreds of stations and sort facilities, their <em>passenger </em>operations would still be an airline, but the company as a whole could no longer be classified as such.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 667280, member: 12508"] My point is that Fred has a vested interest in keeping the idea that FedEx is solely an airline alive and well. Yes, there is an airline component of FDX...just like UPS, but nobody calls UPS an "airline". The real airlines use FedEx heavily because they get a 75% discount, and I'm guessing Smith keeps this money-losing deal active not so we can get flight benefits, but to keep the "airline" facade intact. FedEx and UPS are both [I]systems integrators [/I]that fly airplanes in support of some of their delivery operations. Both are way too diversified to be bona fide "airline" operations. If United Airlines all of a sudden decided to get into the package business, and bought 100,000 trucks and hundreds of stations and sort facilities, their [I]passenger [/I]operations would still be an airline, but the company as a whole could no longer be classified as such. [/QUOTE]
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