Huck
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We got hubs at, let's see, MEM, IND, Newark, Alliance TX, Oakland, Anchorage, Subic ... what'd I miss? MIA? LAX? The one at Greensboro is being built, as well as one in China. Oh yeah Paris has one.
The company uses one against the other depending on weather and loads. Some hubs are at or above capacity (MEM), while some could certainly grow easily. Alliance is the best facility in the system and has the least traffic. It's scary to see a huge new ramp with four or five 727's sitting on it.
MEM works because, well, you just gotta go there. There's a slice of humanity there that's not real prevalent elsewhere - willing to get up in the middle of the night and do nasty, brutish work for four or five years until they go to college, or get a better job, or burn out, or whatever. Indy, on the other hand, is clean, crisp, organized like a military base. Those Indiana chicks out there in the summer sun pushing the freight around - some of them are HOT - oh well I digress.....
The company uses one against the other depending on weather and loads. Some hubs are at or above capacity (MEM), while some could certainly grow easily. Alliance is the best facility in the system and has the least traffic. It's scary to see a huge new ramp with four or five 727's sitting on it.
MEM works because, well, you just gotta go there. There's a slice of humanity there that's not real prevalent elsewhere - willing to get up in the middle of the night and do nasty, brutish work for four or five years until they go to college, or get a better job, or burn out, or whatever. Indy, on the other hand, is clean, crisp, organized like a military base. Those Indiana chicks out there in the summer sun pushing the freight around - some of them are HOT - oh well I digress.....