Andrew Gideon writes:

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:13:21 +0200, Thomas Borchert wrote:

I
had the privilege of writing a magazine story on an average night in
Memphis. It's quite a scene.

Nobody outbound? Where to they put all those aircraft on the ground?

Remember that FedEx started with the model of each aircraft making
exactly two flights a day -- to Memphis, wait while packages are
unloaded, sorted, and reloaded, then back to their city. So all the
arrivals had to occur before all the departures.

It's gotten much more complicated, with more packages sorted remotely
for shorter trips, but I'm not surprised there's still a tendency for
a lot of planes to arrive, sit around a while, and depart from Memphis.
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