Originally Posted by
rvfanatic
You’d think Fedex pilots would be a little more humble given that Fedex was struggling despite one of the best years in the stock market in 2019. Furthermore, Fedex has depressing returns and continues to miss earnings compared to UPS, your closest competitor. At one point last year UPS was up 10% and FDX down 30%!
It seems you guys are almost proud that you aren’t the only ones struggling.
I think you’re reading too much into his comment. Many of us came to FedEx because it offered relative stability historically as compared to the boom and bust cycle of the passenger carriers.
Some reasoned with the original poster that these things happen. I don’t think anyone saw this (COVID-19) coming and certainly even a week ago the negative impact didn’t seem as drastic as it does today.
FedEx isn’t out of the woods but we aren’t drawing down our fleet in large numbers yet. No one is happy to see any other company struggling. It just seemed to me like an observation to the OP. It’s been a long few weeks and days for everyone, I’m sure for you guys at United especially. It will turn around. Head up pal.
-UA