Come on Dan, is UPS going to hire 6k-7k somebodies to do the job? It is a net loss no matter how you cut it.
The 6-7000 jobs includes secondary and tertiary jobs within the region. When DHL expanded the CVG hub, some "economist" said that every dollar coming into the community was spent 7 times. The actual number of Astar/ABX/DHL jobs lost will be a couple thousand. (ABX will probably survive, although as a smaller company)
UPS WILL have to hire additional people to handle DHL freight. Unfortunately, they won't need to hire 1100 pilots, but they WILL add and promote pilots, as will some of their feeders. Caravan runs may become ATR runs, and ATR runs may go in-house to UPS, all of which creates new opportunites for pilots. Sorting at both companies is still done largely by hand, one piece at a time. If the number of pieces goes up by, say, 7%, the number of people required to sort them (in the same amount of time) also goes up by 7%.
They're going to need bodies. I don't know why they wouldn't consider hiring people who have been doing the same job at DHL. The same applies to aircraft mechs, load planners, ops people, security guards, whatever.
The blow to the Wilmington economy will be severe, and to many individual pilots, devastating. Yes, there will be a net loss of jobs, because UPS is a bigger, more efficient company, flying bigger, more efficient planes. But there will be just as many packages being flown, sorted, and flown again each night as there were before this "merger."
Somebody's going to make money handling that additional volume and supplying the infrastructure it requires.
This might be a
real good time to open a U-Haul franchise in Clinton County.
