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UPS is about to complete a billion $ expansion of worldport - so it is possible that RFD volume could be redirected to L'ville to fill up new capacity!
thank youUPS is about to complete a billion $ expansion of worldport - so it is possible that RFD volume could be redirected to L'ville to fill up new capacity!
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This is really the only compelling reason that has been listed so far. The point I was trying to make, is why Rockford? I already listed a few reasons why it is more feasible that Denver or Philadelphia could be closed instead of Rockford. As others have pointed out, we have a brand new Air Cargo facility and they doubled our sorting capacity two years ago.
Maybe the writing is on the wall, but so far I havn't seen a compelling reason to keep Philadelphia or Hartford or Denver or Ontario open over the Rockford air hub. In fact, I believe the Ontario night sort only has like 5-10 flights... anyways, I digress. There is a chance they could close all the hubs down and redirect to Louisville if the economy doesn't turn around and volume doesn't pick up.
word coming from some pt sups is that Rockford twi to run only the next day sort
Thats correct it would run much like it did when the hub first opened where twi was just next day volumeThis is somewhat hard to understand: are you saying that the only thing that will be run on the twilight sort are the next day airs that need to go to Louisville? This would seem to make a lot of sense to me...
That's why RFD is SDF's back up. RFD is the second largest UPS hub by Ramp size (PHL has us beat on sort facility size) in North America with 50 acres of ramp space with 40 Aircraft parking positions.RFD has alot of room for planes to sit
That's why RFD is SDF's back up. RFD is the second largest UPS hub by Ramp size (PHL has us beat on sort facility size) in North America with 50 acres of ramp space with 40 Aircraft parking positions.
Besides, if they wanted planes to sit. They'd keep them at SDF since that's where the maintenance hangers are located. I don't think those mechanics would want work on aircraft outside in the middle of an IL winter.
word is that might sort coming back....or at least what they are going to call a "relief sort" Herd from feed drivers and mg. that the closings are causing a lot of service fallers. talk is we will hear something in Sep. along with the rest of mess at dfw