Actually when you are objective about it Euro, that is exactly what they did. No attempt at integration at all. Just let 2 airlines and 2 sorts run day in day out for 5 years. Then act surprised when it costs hundreds of millions to do that. Then blame everyone else for their lack of action, and give the product to their prime competitor. As to DHL not being happy about UPS doing the flying, well no surprise there. UPS is already poaching customers left and right from DHL. It's just beginning. Further, all you have to do is look at DPWN's stock performance to know the shareholders don't approve. Buying companies without doing DD is not "doing something". It's being a fool.
Exactly heavy. Here's a just a few things DPWN/DHL management has never understood conceptually....
1. Timing - Might want to build a $200 Mill hub
during not after the biggest boom economy in the last 50 years.....or...not.
2. Loyalty - Customer, partner, employee..... whatever. Just loyalty to someone other than the highbrow martini crowd of Bonn. DHL/DPWN seems to not have ANY regard whatsoever conceptually of actually honoring anything they say in contracts or otherwise. Too name just a few folks they've backed out on: 3000 loyal DHL drivers, The State of Kentucky, The State of Ohio, The pilots of AStar, the Owners of AStar, Walmart......etc
3. Humility - DHL apparently thought they could buy ABX, (an inferioir product by their own admission than FedUPS) paint it yellow, do NOTHING different and then compete head to head with FedUPS. It was like they thought they could arrive on US soil with flashy adds giving the finger to the competition, paint everything yellow, and the US consumer would simply say, "Thank God you showed up!"
4. Responsibility - Since day one here, I have never, ever, heard anyone at either DHL OR DPWN EVER take responsibility for why they couldn't make a profit in the US. Not once did they EVER talk about why they couldn't SELL THEIR PRODUCT! They only spoke of how non-profitable we were due to expenses. Always. They have invested in modernizing nearly every major DHL fleet in the rest of the 1st world....but never in the US. They didn't want CATII at AStar and then b1tch cause we can't get in. They want fuel savings but then won't pay to refleet. Want to be in a position of having multiple airlines whipsawing each other, but then b1tch about the cost of not consolidating the US airline ops. IT"S NEVER their fault.....always ours.
5. Negotiations - DHL/DPWN never asks politely, ever! They never negotiate a compromise...ever! They simply decide what they want and steamroll anyone who get's in their way. (See 3.) Arrogance in thinking they shouldn't have too....they're DPWN/DHL
6. Money - DPWN thinks that if you throw enough money at something long enough, even if you don't change ANYTHING materially that affects operations positively, it will eventually just organically go "poof", all better! THEN, when it doesn't they just act like it's not their responsibility to manage, teach, innovate, or grow the operations. They remind me of a barrel racing instructor my daughter once had who, didn't know jack about barrel racing, but needed to act like she did because otherwise nobody would use here. Her method of "instructing" her students during a barrel racing lesson was to simply yell, "Go faster!!" without ever telling em
how. That's DPWN for ya. Don't ever really change or manage things, shovel the money towards the gaint sucking sound, and then complain that you're losing money and it's
their fault.
I could probably go on.....but to sum it up....
DPWN arrogance + incompetence = Colossal Failure
Now go look in the mirror you SOBs!!
