I don't know your background, but I came from the military and was a lost ball in high weeds when it came to assessing which company to work for when I went prospecting for an airline job. I had no idea how volatile the pax airline industry could be so I went with the first major that hired me. Had I looked at the economics more carefully it would have been clear that cargo had a much brighter and more stable future, not to mention a MUCH more profitable history. The reasons are many, but one of the big ones is the enormous investment required to even get into this business. UPS started almost a century ago with a couple of trucks delivering small packages and has slowly expanded since then almost entirely on reinvested profits to become what it is today-a debt-free cash cow that generates a billion in profit every quarter. UPS started out as a trucking company that added an airline 20 years ago to expand into the overnight market Fed Ex proved was profitable. Fed Ex began as an airline focusing on the overnight letter market and later added a trucking company to expand its small package ground operation. The two companies have arrived at essentially the same place from opposite directions. The vastly different cultures at UPS and Fed Ex can be explained by their corporate histories. There is a culture of resentment and outright hatred for the pilots at UPS that goes way beyond standard management/labor friction. Fed Ex began as an airline so it doesn't have the institutional spite against its pilots that UPS does.

I would suggest that you do your best to get hired at Fed Ex.