Originally Posted by
Commando
PreContract, Please explain how UPS can do the Contract? UPS will not take an Airplane out of a Gateway during the day. Because it has to be there that evening to go to the Sort with Next day Volume.
But isn't this exactly what FedEx does in many places? At least in my city it is. Two A-300s come in early in the morning from the overnight sort. One of them turns back to MEM at about 9am, sits several hours there, then is back by 7pm to do the night stuff again.
UPS has several airplanes that sit during the day that can do this. In addition there is the existing second day air sort (daytime) that is already flown, again with a long ground time in SDF. These planes make it back to the outstation to do the night sort. SDF's "Worldport" is highly automated and it would be no problem to tighten up the day sort schedule if need be.
I just don't see a lack of ability on UPS' part to be able to do this.