FedEx Express, formerly Federal Express, is a cargo airline based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It is the world's largest airline in terms of freight tons flown and the world's fourth largest in terms of fleet size. It is a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation, delivering packages and freight to more than 375 destinations in nearly every country each day.
The concept for what became Federal Express came to Fred Smith in the mid-1960s, while an undergraduate student at Yale. Smith founded Federal Express Corporation in 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Smith was operating Little Rock Airmotive. After a lack of support from the Little Rock National Airport, Smith moved the company to Memphis, Tennessee and Memphis International Airport in 1973. Federal Express installed its first drop box in 1975 which allowed customers to drop off packages without going to a company local branch. In 1976, the company became profitable with an average volume of 19,000 parcels per day.
Major competitor in the USA was/is DHL.
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Boeing 757-28A(SF), registration N913FD, built 1988, serial number 24017 Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 20 February 2018
Boeing 757-23A(SF), registration N920FD, built 1989, serial number 24289 Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 17 August 2018
