FedEx Freight spin off 1Jun
02-07-2026 | 11:39 AM
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Several on here THINK it means that an Irish-owned airline with Belgian-registered aircraft will come in and fly ALL of our flights domestically.
Which is totally wrong, but hey, it makes for good pot stirring and fear mongering because they can't get their way.
02-07-2026 | 05:38 PM
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Probably not the best place to ask this question.
Several on here THINK it means that an Irish-owned airline with Belgian-registered aircraft will come in and fly ALL of our flights domestically.
Which is totally wrong, but hey, it makes for good pot stirring and fear mongering because they can't get their way.
Several on here THINK it means that an Irish-owned airline with Belgian-registered aircraft will come in and fly ALL of our flights domestically.
Which is totally wrong, but hey, it makes for good pot stirring and fear mongering because they can't get their way.
The worry is that another carrier will fly our domestic freight. Say, I dunno Breeze, within about two hour circle of MEM penalty free.
02-07-2026 | 10:55 PM
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Nobody here has any idea but for some of these guys to act like it’s not going to negatively impact the pilot group is laughable. Almost every thing they are doing right now is to get away from conventional employer employee relationship.
02-08-2026 | 03:35 AM
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Freight is a ground component of Fedex, the air side is Express. There are Express trucks on the road to support our air unit, but be sure, the Freight side has cargo on our aircraft too. We were supposed to be all one "Fedex", no longer separate divisions, but not in reality. This would affect the whole operation, but most importantly the short term stock price, which seems to be all the management is after. Keep selling and shuttering facilities until there's nothing left.
02-08-2026 | 04:04 AM
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Probably not the best place to ask this question.
Several on here THINK it means that an Irish-owned airline with Belgian-registered aircraft will come in and fly ALL of our flights domestically.
Which is totally wrong, but hey, it makes for good pot stirring and fear mongering because they can't get their way.
Several on here THINK it means that an Irish-owned airline with Belgian-registered aircraft will come in and fly ALL of our flights domestically.
Which is totally wrong, but hey, it makes for good pot stirring and fear mongering because they can't get their way.
02-08-2026 | 06:05 AM
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No I was asking an honest question. I don’t know much about how FedEx is structured, but I am watching with keen interest what is going on with our colleagues in the industry.
02-08-2026 | 07:21 AM
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Ok, well everything else will remain and we will carry the same type of cargo that UPS carried after they got rid of UPS Freight in 2021. What cargo did you stop carrying when UPS got rid of their Freight division? Was there anything left to carry since you thought those terms were interchangeable?
02-08-2026 | 07:29 AM
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My understanding is that Fedex Freight is exclusively LTL at lower rates, while previously Fedex Ground/Express (now just Fedex) is potentially anything anywhere, but more expensively. Not sure if Fedex Freight ever had anything on the aircraft, as I suspect the rates to fly something LTL size would be astronomical. (Pricing out an LTL size package on fedex.com it looks like the LTL cost is roughly one fifth of the normal Fedex rate to send things via what would have been ground/express).
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