Originally Posted by Browntail
Because UPS is such a great and stable company that it can afford to pay CASH for every airplane. It's so superior financially that it could buy every airline in the US and just make a small dent in the amount of free cash on hand it has.
Don't have to pay for much when the majority of the fleet is second-hand and at least 10 years old. God, those DC-8s have to be pushing 40.