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 yet we are flying the same routes to the same city pairs we have always flown. One could easily look at belly freight city pairs exactly as feeder routes or as potential new routes for Express as soon as we steal enough market share.
Two things to remember:
If it was cheaper and as reliable to do it that way we would already be doing it that way.
God grant me (and ALPA) the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. And Lord please help Membrain find a little friend he can play with so he does not keep coming on here annoying the big boys.