COVID19’s Industry impact
03-16-2020, 10:16 PM
#31
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I am an invader from he PAX side of the industry, just looking what is going on in cargo right now. One interesting thought is the whole freight/cargo world, just in time delivery, etc. There are ships in the wrong place, containers in the wrong place. Our current logistical system was built slowly over 20-30 years, no one ever designed it from scratch.
It is now in chaos. Is there anyone in the world who knows how to put it all together, quickly? Car companies buy parts and assemble them. Those parts are made from other parts and materials, also many of which are outsourced. If you are missing one part for a transmission, the transmission doesn't get built, and therefore the car doesn't get built. How far down the road will it be before GM or VW can assemble a car? TV? A320NEO?
I am guessing your services will be in great demand for the next year. At a premium price.
It is now in chaos. Is there anyone in the world who knows how to put it all together, quickly? Car companies buy parts and assemble them. Those parts are made from other parts and materials, also many of which are outsourced. If you are missing one part for a transmission, the transmission doesn't get built, and therefore the car doesn't get built. How far down the road will it be before GM or VW can assemble a car? TV? A320NEO?
I am guessing your services will be in great demand for the next year. At a premium price.
03-17-2020, 05:57 AM
#32
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Originally Posted by Seatwarmer
With all the changes happening almost hourly are guys waiving the contract? Crew scheduling asked us to waive the other day on an international leg and we said no even after they tried to bribe us. Got a call from an ACP who was shocked we wouldn’t help them out. I’m “ no waivers, no favors” all the time. I figured everyone else was too?
04-13-2020, 05:29 PM
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FedEx Puts Parked Jets Back in Service
FedEx Puts Parked Jets Back in Service to Meet Asia Cargo Surge (Bloomberg, April 10)
FedEx Corp. is redeploying aircraft it mothballed earlier this year and plans to add 150 flights over the next month to ferry masks, protective suits and other health-care supplies to the U.S. from Asia.
The activity adds to the usual seven to nine daily flights across the Pacific, said Richard Smith, chief of FedEx Express operations in the Americas and son of company founder Fred Smith.
At a time passenger travel has ground almost to a halt, the company also has increased U.S. domestic flights to meet higher package volume for the U.S. Postal Service as shut-in Americans buy more goods online, he said.
“It’s a tremendous uptick in flying,” Smith said in a telephone interview. “We were actually surprised we were able to crew all these flights.”
The federal government has turned to FedEx and United Parcel Service Inc. to transport supplies bound for front-line health-care workers in an operation called Airbridge. The logistics giants are also transporting virus test kits and results and helping set up temporary hospitals as the number of Covid-19 patients is poised to peak in many states.
FedEx also has flown cargo directly for states, including Illinois, Arkansas and Alaska, Smith said, and has even moved material at the behest of celebrities who’ve donated health-care supplies. Smith said the aircraft brought back into service is “a moving target,” and declined to give specific numbers.
Pilots have to undergo “rigorous testing” when they arrive to countries such as China. FedEx confirmed that one of its pilots died from the coronavirus, but Smith declined to discuss how many employees have contracted Covid-19. The company hasn’t had a large problem with absenteeism, he said.
While cargo volume has increased for the Express business, the shutdown of many U.S. businesses has hurt the company’s industrial freight unit. At FedEx’s ground unit, a decline of packages sent among businesses has been offset by the surge of consumer deliveries.
FedEx Corp. is redeploying aircraft it mothballed earlier this year and plans to add 150 flights over the next month to ferry masks, protective suits and other health-care supplies to the U.S. from Asia.The activity adds to the usual seven to nine daily flights across the Pacific, said Richard Smith, chief of FedEx Express operations in the Americas and son of company founder Fred Smith.
At a time passenger travel has ground almost to a halt, the company also has increased U.S. domestic flights to meet higher package volume for the U.S. Postal Service as shut-in Americans buy more goods online, he said.
“It’s a tremendous uptick in flying,” Smith said in a telephone interview. “We were actually surprised we were able to crew all these flights.”
The federal government has turned to FedEx and United Parcel Service Inc. to transport supplies bound for front-line health-care workers in an operation called Airbridge. The logistics giants are also transporting virus test kits and results and helping set up temporary hospitals as the number of Covid-19 patients is poised to peak in many states.
FedEx also has flown cargo directly for states, including Illinois, Arkansas and Alaska, Smith said, and has even moved material at the behest of celebrities who’ve donated health-care supplies. Smith said the aircraft brought back into service is “a moving target,” and declined to give specific numbers.
Pilots have to undergo “rigorous testing” when they arrive to countries such as China. FedEx confirmed that one of its pilots died from the coronavirus, but Smith declined to discuss how many employees have contracted Covid-19. The company hasn’t had a large problem with absenteeism, he said.
While cargo volume has increased for the Express business, the shutdown of many U.S. businesses has hurt the company’s industrial freight unit. At FedEx’s ground unit, a decline of packages sent among businesses has been offset by the surge of consumer deliveries.
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