UPS, FedEx's Cargo Planes To Be Grounded Over Christmas--Leaked Memo

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4. Absolutely

Trucking companies will probably line up to pick up the slack but that will take time. UPS and Fedex are leaned out to squeeze every dollar out of every mile flown or driven. Keeps costs down but it's also fragile. Having to recreate many of the air legs on the ground will take time and coordination. They may never have gamed out this contingency as suits probably thought this could never happen. If they did, they'll have to blow the dust off those contingency plans.

Either way, it will take time to get up and running. A lot of long hours for UPS and Fedex people. Even then, it's liable to be a mess at first, which just happens to be the heaviest shipping season of the year. Couldn't happen at a worse time, but these things seem to always happen at the worst time.