FedEx Built An Airline Empire Without Selling A Single Ticket
FedEx flies around 700 aircraft to more than 220 countries, more jets than Emirates and Qatar Airways combined, and it has never sold a single ticket. This is the whole story: the Yale term paper nobody believed, the blackjack table that covered a fuel bill in 1973, why every parcel still goes through Memphis, and the airport that now carries Frederick Smith's name.
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