Southwest program will help new pilots climb through ranks faster
A designation for Southwest Tennessee Community College from the Federal Aviation Administration will provide training in school instead of while accumulating hours in a cockpit.
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A designation for Southwest Tennessee Community College from the Federal Aviation Administration will provide training in school instead of while accumulating hours in a cockpit.
Memphis International Airport is to be renamed after Frederick W Smith, the late founder and executive chairman of FedEx.
“Memphis is at a crossroads, and the path to vitality lies in bold economic development.”
The new chair of the FedEx board was previously the interim president of the University of Memphis, CEO of Saks Inc. and the lead director of the board of Pilot Flying J.
FedEx founder and executive chairman Frederick W. Smith, who changed the face of global commerce and his adopted hometown of Memphis, has died at age 80.
Reactions from across Memphis poured in after the death of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
The Memphis and Shelby County Airport Authority will introduce plan to rename Memphis’ airport in honor of the aviator, businessman and hometown hero Fred Smith.
Jack Sammons spent a portion of Saturday with the FedEx founder: “No matter how routine our regular conversations ... every time I talked to him, I felt like I was talking to Thomas Edison, an individual who changed the world.”Related content:
Images show the might, creativity it takes to start a company, reminding the world that FedEx started out the same way.
More than 50 years ago, FedEx began as an idea proposed in a Yale economics paper. Here’s what happened next.
Smith estimated FedEx is “the biggest tax collector of tariffs by any entity in America” based on what it is transporting.
A former CEO of the nation’s largest waste-management company who currently serves on the FedEx board of directors will take over control of the U.S. Postal Service.
Depending on people’s points of view, tariffs will jumpstart U.S. manufacturing and create jobs or mire the economy in inflation. There’s little in-between. Trump’s tariff push is a race against time, and potential voter backlashRelated story:
Eleven-year-old Maci Barrett gave Penny Hardaway a bracelet expressing her support for the coach. Now FedEx is flying Maci and her family to Seattle for the NCAA Tournament.
Lance Moll will serve in his role until Jan. 31 and move into an executive advisor position until July 31.
The company expects the transaction, which will produce two publicly traded companies, will be executed in 18 months. FedEx sees some gains in face of stubborn economy, other headwindsRelated story:
The company affirms the value of its savings programs, more than $6 billion through 2027, but downgrades earnings-per-share for the rest of the year.
One analyst said cargo volumes at Memphis likely will not return to the glory days of past years as FedEx pushes for higher-margin packages.
The cuts this week are likely the result of the company’s massive work to merge its Express, Ground and FedEx Services divisions.
The new sorting technology is expected to end nights at the hub when the bottom falls out due to weather, outages or package spikes.
Up to 400 families received canned goods, electrolyte mixes, games, books, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, makeup and other toiletry items Thursday, Nov. 7.
The facility is large enough to sort 56,000 packages an hour.
Shaun Kavanaugh, 46, of Orlando, Florida, pleaded guilty Oct. 22 to mail fraud. He received more than $750,000 from FedEx.
FedEx exec Richard Smith says this is a critical moment for Downtown Memphis — and the Grizzlies, FedExForum and Beale Street may be the key.
Richard Smith was as surprised as anyone when Fred Smith, his father, decided the family would give $50 million to help renovate the stadium. Here’s Smith on crime, Ja Morant, conference realignment and how that gift came to be.