Originally Posted by
EXPAT1
This is what DHL has been doing for decades. Outsource all of the flying to whatever is cheapest. The market is rapidly changing to where this type of business model makes more sense. Charter aircraft only when needed and outsource to cheaper forms of transportation to the maximum extent possible ie trains, blimps, belly freight, USPS, whatever can move freight for a profit. The overnight delivery has shrank to a very small part of the business model.
And we saw how great DHL did in the U.S. retail space.
This kind of thinking can you lead you down a foolish negotiating path. Some were thinking foreign pilots would take FDX HKG flying. Remember, they actually do have a pilot shortage in Asia.
You were developing a bit of a point until you mentioned Blimps and the USPS. Good luck with that.
Chartering works great until the charter company goes BK or has a string of incidents that gets traced back to poor training and they get their certificate suspended. That's how the USPS got out of express freight.