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Wasn't Cincinnati the alternate choice for hub by Fred Smith and colleagues at the founding of FedEx?
by pizzetta 10y ago
Wasn't Cincinnati the alternate choice for hub by Fred Smith and colleagues at the founding of FedEx?
- awalton 10y agoIf my memory is good on the subject, I think it was because CVG was a much bigger Delta hub at the time that it was hard for them to turn it into a shipping hub and not disrupt passenger traffic. Now that Delta has vastly scaled back operations at CVG... time's right.
- pizzetta 10y agoI found a response from essentially the horse's mouth #1: "So, there were about three candidate locations, Memphis and, as I recall, Cincinnati and Kansas City. The Memphis airport had some old WWII hangers next to the runway that FedEx could use for the sort center, aircraft maintenance, and HQ office space. Deal done -- it was Memphis. That's how the decision was really made." #1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104