Originally Posted by wrxpilot

A couple of things...

I’m pretty sure FedEx actually makes a decent amount of money from selling APS licenses to other carriers. As a pilot, I really like the flexibility and instant calculations it performs. Relying upon ACARS for robust worldwide performance calculations probably isn’t the best idea. I even had occasional issues with ACARS based performance in the lower 48 at my previous airline.

I don’t know what is the deal with the IT for PFC, and I think we can all agree it is terrible and borderline unacceptable. But it also seems drastically different than what is used for FedEx customers. I don’t hear of daily IT outages for FDX operations at the consumer level.