"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote in message
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Andrew Gideon writes:

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.

Before *all* of the departures? No one else uses the airport? Or, at
least, no one else uses the airport while the FedEx airplanes are arriving?

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.

Sure, but *no* departures? No one?

Sure seems unlikely to me. Data filtering seems more likely than there
being *zero* other air traffic during the FedEx arrivals (especially over
that long a period of time).

Granted, with the crappy weather depicted, there would be fewer than normal.
But for the airport to essentially shut down except for FedEx seems a little
odd, even considering it's their hub.

Pete