Big Brown - The Untold Story of UPS

[CheyDogFlies]

We can see the future in int'l cargo. Operators at consoles in MEM and SDF 8 hour shifts, running thier RPV's around the world. Year 2042.

Good thing I'll be retired before 2042.

 

[doer42]

Check out this article how most Predator UAV losses are not due to combat, but operator errors, etc. I don't think we have much to fear anytime soon.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htatrit/articles/20070403.aspx

 

[GogglesPisano]

. I'm sure that if you had told the head of NASA that one day, one of his astronauts would drive 900 miles in a diaper to kill a romantic rival, he would have laughed, too.

Good one!

 

[nitefr8dog]

I just read 'Big Brown - The Untold Story of UPS" by Greg Niemann.

Looks like that company is going to be the airline to be at in years to come. Not really sure what can stop UPS and/or FedEx now.

I don't see the legacy airlines ever coming close to these two again in terms of pay, quality of life and security.

Who would have thought, huh?

I know a guy that left CAL and another guy leaving UAL for UPS soon. I think they are smart.

And you just figured this out! This is a company that made 1.2billion last quarter and that was not from moving aircraft around the world, it was from trucking boxes! The costs of running the airline are just a write off for UPS not how the money is made. Nice to work for an airline that does not have to be profitable.

 

[pilotyip]

I know a pilot who left FedEx for Braniff, there were pilots who left UPS in the 90's for the dream jobs at UAL, DAL, etc. They will only know in five years if they made the right choice.

 

[mrvmo]

Fr8dog,

These guys don't do anything that is not profitable, if they do it isn't for long. In fact they don't even go into a market to make "a little" money, they usually only go in if there is big profit involved. $1.2 billion........prolly don't make that kind of money running an unprofitable portion of your business.

 

[L'il J.Seinfeld]

About 35% OF UPS's profits come from the airline. That percent has been increasing dramatically and hopefully will contine to do so. I think FDX is the inverse and their ground side has been making a bigger share of their total revenue and profits.

 

[capt. megadeth]

Good thing I'll be retired before 2042.

Me too! Of course, by then, retirement age will probably be 95 so maybe I won't be.

 

[b707guy]

Walkers, defibrillators and Depends will be standard issue by then, too. And the pilot seats will have lavs built into them complete with Asian-style wash options. Actually, that's sounding pretty good - I'll never retire - they can't make me...

 

[nitefr8dog]

Not to sound like I am repeating myself but DAL,UAL,NWA ETC. make money flying airplanes where the customer will fly a start up airline that got their first airplane yesterday if the fare is 10 bucks cheaper! Not the case at UPS,FEX etc. The money is made trucking boxes the cost of the airline is just part of the business they are in.