FedEx Deadline Delivery
 

FedEx plays a starring role in the History Channel program "Deadline Delivery" which will air this week.

In the hour-long episode, a hospital patient is waiting in New York City for a radioactive pharmaceutical from China that could save her life. The program follows FedEx team members around they world as they fight the clock to ensure the life-saving shipment is delivered.

The History Channel will re-broadcast the show at the following times (U.S. Eastern Time):

•January 23 – 5 p.m.

Watched this program last night. I was totally blown away by the inaccuracies and outright fabrications that were portrayed. Example: Flight from ANC-MEM was overweight so they dropped a "sweep flight" into ANC to pick up the extra? Package was going to NYC so why route it through MEM insted of EWR? They also portrayed the international date line as some kind of time warp that allowed the plane to go backwards in time to make the delivery cutoff. They said the dateline was "discovered" by Magellan back in the 16th century when he returned from his round the world voyage to find his ship's log showed him being gone one day less than records kept in his home port. Talk about time dilation!

I turned the show off before it was finished. It was so ridiculous.

Didn't see the program, but I would never even try to guess why some packages go one way vs. another. Ever track a package and see it go through a hub you didn't expect?

The international dateline bit was and is correct:

The International Date Line

International Date Line

You have to remember, no one was wearing wristwatches or carrying cell phones back then. They simply counted sunrises/sunsets.

Dunno...maybe ANC-MEM-JFK was quicker? Our ANC-EWR flt gets in about 0230. Possible explanation....or not.

Shhhh, or FedEx is going to try to get a "Magellan clause" written into our next contract so as to only pay us for 11 days for a 12 day around the world trip!

Although the film had many inaccuracies, it was good publicity for FedEx. And by the way, that medical package was routed ANC..MEM..EWR, arriving at the hospital with only minutes to spare. They could have done a better job by routing it directly into EWR from ANC, but as in all the current reality TV shows, the thing that seems to make these shows is that the participants are constantly bumping into artificial time constraints. It could have been there easily by 10:30.

JJ

A radioactive pharmaceutical....from China. Did we get a Haz waiver on that, or was it just passing thru?

They should have 800.GO.FEDEX and got a position update from those lovely people. Put THAT on a show!