Before FDX I flew -10s and -11's for Gemini.

We used to pick up DHL freight in Cincinnati, fly across the pond, and drop it off at Midlands near Nottingham. It would be loaded up into the foreign carrier DHL Air's 757's and distributed across Europe.

The Midlands operation was in a brand-new facility with great aircraft and easily as good a reliability rate as our CDG hub. Don't fool yourself.

Thing is... the nature of the market is to continually seek efficiencies. This never stops. I don't know if we can escape this sort of outsourcing in the long run.

People bitched about the crap service at Walmart, but notice how many other stores (from home repair to sports merchandise to pet supplies) have adopted their model.......