Originally Posted by
dera
100 years enough? Because eventually every prediction of someone's demise comes true.
Look at Amazon now, they started air back in 2016 just in case you didn’t know - name any business growth this significant in 5 years (In aviation, and ground movement hosting 10s of thousands of vehicles in the past 3-5 years with workers with way less benefits if any compared to Purple/Brown)
True, FedEx is still around and so is UPS for that matter and will continue to be the heavy weights for awhile of course and maybe forever. But using “still around” as logic is not realistic future forecasting. Pan Am, TWA, merging of Continental, U.S. Airways, Northwest which were “around for decades proves otherwise. Ground structure for the cargo business is the key difference which seems to stabilize things within our industry. Who knows, a Purple/Brown package truck might be in the works, DHL abroad is their main competitor. Times change, technology advances, Founders/CEO’s do pass away like everyone else. Nothing is absolute except for the last third of the previous statement.
Did the article predict the viral debacle which provided huge gains in our industry beyond normalcy. Whoever did with the correct timeline, find that guy…