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74-670: Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport ( IATA : SDF , ICAO : KSDF , FAA LID : SDF ), also known by its former official names Louisville International Airport and Standiford Field , is a civil-military airport in Louisville in Jefferson County , Kentucky . The airport covers 1,500 acres (6.1 km) and has three runways . Its IATA airport code, SDF, is based on the airport's former name, Standiford Field. Despite being called an international airport, it has no regularly-scheduled international passenger flights, but

148-940: A 11,000 square meter package center in Mysłowice . The facility is equipped with a conveyor belt system capable of sorting up to 6,000 packages per hour. It also offers parking for 170 package cars and houses a customer call center. The size of the Mysłowice facility is more than three times larger than the one in Katowice . Mysłowice was chosen as the location for the new facility in 2017 due to its proximity to various business distribution centers and Katowice airport, where UPS has invested in additional air cargo capacity. UPS has 15 small package and four SCS operating facilities in Turkey , located in various cities such as Istanbul , Ankara , Izmir , Bursa , and Antalya . UPS's Asia-Pacific Air Hub

222-656: A Canadian transport and logistics company, for $ 800 million. UPS said the move would allow it to focus on small-package delivery. At the time of the sale, UPS Freight had about 14,500 employees, approximately 11,000 of them represented by the Teamsters union, and generated an estimated $ 3.15 billion in revenue in 2020 offering services across the US, Canada, and Mexico. TFI had reported $ 4.1 billion in revenue in 2019 and already operated truckload and LTL services in Canada. The acquisition

296-731: A domestic operation in West Germany . UPS Next Day Air Service was launched in 1985 for all 48 contiguous states plus Puerto Rico . In 1988, UPS Airlines was launched with authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration and became the fastest-growing airline in FAA history – currently the 10th largest airline in the United States. Domestic air service was added to Germany in 1989. In 1991, UPS relocated its headquarters to Sandy Springs, Georgia ,

370-493: A few hundred combinations; a three-letter system of airport codes was implemented. This system allowed for 17,576 permutations, assuming all letters can be used in conjunction with each other. Since the U.S. Navy reserved "N" codes, and to prevent confusion with Federal Communications Commission broadcast call signs , which begin with "W" or "K", the airports of certain U.S. cities whose name begins with one of these letters had to adopt "irregular" airport codes: This practice

444-799: A move to help expand its presence in European and Asian markets. However, the deal fell through in January 2013, after it was announced that UPS had failed to obtain permission from the European Commission and as such had been blocked on competition grounds. In February 2012, UPS acquired Brussels -based company Kiala that provides e-commerce retailers the option to have goods delivered to a conventional retail location. In 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that UPS's operations were hampered by its outdated 20th-century technology, lagging behind its competitors. In May 2019, UPS launched

518-435: A new UPS air mail facility, new corporate hangars, a four-level parking garage and a new control tower were also added. A new FBO was added, run by Atlantic Aviation and managed by Michael Perry. In 2005, a $ 26 million terminal renovation designed by Gensler Inc. was completed. As of 2024, the airport is in the midst of a major renovation project called SDF Next, which includes more than $ 400 million in planned enhancements to

592-567: A new airport is built, replacing the old one, leaving the city's new "major" airport (or the only remaining airport) code to no longer correspond with the city's name. The original airport in Nashville, Tennessee, was built in 1936 as part of the Works Progress Administration and called Berry Field with the designation, BNA. A new facility known as Nashville International Airport was built in 1987 but still uses BNA. This

666-490: A partnership with autonomous trucking startup TuSimple to carry cargo across Phoenix , Arizona, and Tucson , Arizona. In October 2019, UPS won the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones. The certification will allow UPS to deliver health care supplies using a fleet of drones. On January 29, 2020, UPS announced it was investing in UK start-up Arrival and ordering 10,000 Generation 2 electric vehicles as

740-500: A second investment of $ 1   billion. The second expansion was completed in April 2010, with the facility now measuring 5,200,000 square feet (480,000 m), with a perimeter of 7.2 miles (11.6 km). The plan was for more than 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m) to be added to its existing facility, with another 334,500 square feet (31,080 m) of space to be renovated with new technology and equipment. Worldport sorting capacity

814-669: A small area around Los Angeles but by 1927 expanded to areas up to 125 miles outside the city. In 1924, a conveyor belt system was debuted for the handling of packages for UPS operations. In 1930, a consolidated carrier service began in New York City; soon after, the company expanded its services to include other major cities in the East and the Midwest . The use of a common carrier for delivery between all customers placed UPS in direct competition with USPS, and delivering parcels beyond

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888-680: A step towards a cleaner, more high-tech fleet. The deal runs from 2020 until 2024 and was reported to be worth more than $ 400 million. In March 2020, the company has appointed Carol Tomé to succeed David Abney as its chief executive officer. It was viewed as a move to steer the parcel delivery company through the turbulence of trade wars, technological disruption and the risk of a pandemic-induced recession. In March 2020, UPS expands its autonomous trips with TuSimple by adding an extra route between Phoenix and El Paso, Texas . In January 2021, UPS announced it had agreed to sell UPS Freight, its less-than-truckload freight business, to TFI International ,

962-624: A suburb of Atlanta . Following this in 1992, UPS acquired both Haulfast and Carryfast and rebranded them UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Haulfast provided the pallet haulage and trucking network for the CarryFast group of companies. By 1993, UPS was delivering up to 11.5 million packages and documents per day. In order for the company to service the large volume of customers in 1991, UPS developed technologies to improve efficiency. A handheld device called "Delivery Information Acquisition Device" (DIAD)

1036-509: Is GSN and its IATA code is SPN, and some coincide with IATA codes of non-U.S. airports. Canada's unusual codes—which bear little to no similarity with any conventional abbreviation to the city's name—such as YUL in Montréal , and YYZ in Toronto , originated from the two-letter codes used to identify weather reporting stations in the 1930s. The letters preceding the two-letter code follow

1110-501: Is a port of entry , handling many UPS Airlines international cargo flights through the United Parcel Service 's worldwide air hub, often referred to as UPS Worldport . Over 4.6 million passengers passed through the airport in 2023, while over 6.7 billion pounds (3.38 million tons) of cargo passed through in 2022. It is also the third-busiest in the United States in terms of cargo traffic, and sixth-busiest for such in

1184-788: Is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company and one of the world's largest shipping couriers . UPS today is primarily known for its ground shipping services as well as the UPS Store , a retail chain which assists UPS shipments and provides tools for small businesses. UPS offers air shipping on an overnight or two-day basis and delivers to post office boxes through UPS Mail Innovations and UPS SurePost, two services that pass on packages to

1258-523: Is different from the name in English, yet the airport code represents only the English name. Examples include: Due to scarcity of codes, some airports are given codes with letters not found in their names: The use of 'X' as a filler letter is a practice to create three-letter identifiers when more straightforward options were unavailable: Some airports in the United States retained their NWS ( National Weather Service ) codes and simply appended an X at

1332-737: Is expected to be finalized by the end of the year. UPS’ global hub for air shipments Is the Worldport , located at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport . The facility contributes to the airport's status of the second-busiest cargo airport in the United States and the fourth-busiest worldwide. The Worldport consist of: UPS has five large regional air hubs in the United States, located in Ontario, California ; Dallas, Texas ; Rockford, Illinois ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and Atlanta, Georgia . These hubs serve as centers for sorting, transfer and delivery of packages. UPS has established

1406-513: Is in conjunction to rules aimed to avoid confusion that seem to apply in the United States, which state that "the first and second letters or second and third letters of an identifier may not be duplicated with less than 200 nautical miles separation." Thus, Washington, D.C. area's three airports all have radically different codes: IAD for Washington–Dulles , DCA for Washington–Reagan (District of Columbia Airport), and BWI for Baltimore (Baltimore–Washington International, formerly BAL). Since HOU

1480-561: Is located at Singapore Changi Airport . It is the company's largest hub outside of the United States, and handles over 1.1 million packages per day. The hub has been expanded by 25% in 2023 to meet the growing e-commerce demand following the pandemic . After the upgrade, it can process 40% more import packages and 45% more export packages, enabling extended pick-up cut-off times for all export services. The hub also features refrigerators and freezers that can maintain temperatures between −20 and 25 °C (−4 and 77 °F) to facilitate

1554-469: Is no longer available on their consumer facing website. In 1995, UPS acquired SonicAir to offer service parts logistics and compete with Choice Logistics. In the same year, UPS launched UPS Logistics Group to facilitate global supply chain management services and consulting for customer needs. In 1997, a walkout by the 185,000 members of the Teamsters shut down UPS for 16 days. In 1998, UPS Capital

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1628-543: Is not followed outside the United States: In addition, since three letter codes starting with Q are widely used in radio communication, cities whose name begins with "Q" also had to find alternate codes, as in the case of: IATA codes should not be confused with the FAA identifiers of U.S. airports. Most FAA identifiers agree with the corresponding IATA codes, but some do not, such as Saipan , whose FAA identifier

1702-458: Is one of the largest employers in both the city of Louisville and the state of Kentucky as a whole. The facility, which serves all of the company's major international and domestic hubs, mainly handles express and international packages and letters. A 1,000,000-square-foot (93,000 m) expansion was completed in spring 2006 to integrate heavy freight into the UPS system. The expansion was prefaced by

1776-459: Is the longest of the three at 11,887 feet (3,623 m) and was extended in 2007 to accommodate larger aircraft flying nonstop to destinations as far away as the Pacific Rim and Asia. Worldport is the worldwide air hub for UPS ( United Parcel Service ) located at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Because of UPS, Louisville is the fourth-busiest cargo airport in the world, and

1850-570: Is the third-busiest cargo airport in the United States, only falling short of the Ted Stevens Airport in Anchorage, Alaska and FedEx 's SuperHub at Memphis International Airport . !2021 It is also the world's sixth-busiest airport by cargo traffic , behind Hong Kong , Memphis, Shanghai Pudong , Anchorage, and Seoul Incheon Airport . The Kentucky Air National Guard 's 123d Airlift Wing operates C-130 transport aircraft from

1924-416: Is used for William P. Hobby Airport , the new Houston–Intercontinental became IAH. The code BKK was originally assigned to Bangkok–Don Mueang and was later transferred to Suvarnabhumi Airport , while the former adopted DMK. The code ISK was originally assigned to Gandhinagar Airport (Nashik's old airport) and later on transferred to Ozar Airport (Nashik's current airport). Shanghai–Hongqiao retained

1998-571: The Canadian transcontinental railroads were built, each station was assigned its own two-letter Morse code : When the Canadian government established airports, it used the existing railway codes for them as well. If the airport had a weather station, authorities added a "Y" to the front of the code, meaning "Yes" to indicate it had a weather station or some other letter to indicate it did not. When international codes were created in cooperation with

2072-641: The East Coast and West Coast . Shortly before 3:00 a.m, on the morning of December 5, 1974, a package bomb exploded at UPS's Northside center on Beaver Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing one man and injuring 10 others. The murder case was initially investigated by Robert Coll, Assistant Superintendent of City Detectives, and later the FBI. The package originated in Erie, Pennsylvania and its destination

2146-664: The Jerry E. Abramson Terminal, work on the baggage claim, updates to security and lighting, and changes to the rental car counters, among other improvements. On January 16, 2019, the Louisville Regional Airport Authority voted to rename the airport Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, after boxing legend Muhammad Ali , a Louisville native. The Jerry E. Abramson Terminal is the airport's main commercial terminal. It consists of two floors with ground transportation and baggage claim services on

2220-588: The United States Post Office Department -- the predecessor of today's United States Postal Service . In 1913, the company acquired a Ford Model T as its first delivery vehicle. Casey and Ryan merged with a competitor, Evert McCabe, and formed Merchants Parcel Delivery . Consolidated delivery was also introduced, combining packages addressed to a certain neighborhood onto one delivery vehicle. In 1916, Charlie Soderstrom joined Merchants Parcel Delivery bringing in more vehicles for

2294-501: The United States Postal Service for last-mile delivery . UPS is the largest courier company in the world by revenue, with annual revenues around US$ 85 billion in 2020, ahead of competitors DHL and FedEx . UPS's main international hub, UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky , is the fifth busiest airport in the world by cargo traffic based on preliminary statistics from ACI , and the third busiest in

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2368-481: The list of Amtrak station codes . Airport codes arose out of the convenience that the practice brought pilots for location identification in the 1930s. Initially, pilots in the United States used the two-letter code from the National Weather Service (NWS) for identifying cities. This system became unmanageable for cities and towns without an NWS identifier, and the use of two letters allowed only

2442-660: The California border brought it under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission . The first city for UPS to use common carrier status outside California was Chicago, Illinois , in 1953. Air service through UPS was first used in 1929 through private airlines. However, the Great Depression and a lack of volume ended the service. In 1953, UPS resumed air service called UPS Blue Label Air with two-day service to major cities along

2516-523: The IATA Airline Coding Directory. IATA provides codes for airport handling entities, and for certain railway stations. Alphabetical lists of airports sorted by IATA code are available. A list of railway station codes , shared in agreements between airlines and rail lines such as Amtrak , SNCF , and Deutsche Bahn , is available. However, many railway administrations have their own list of codes for their stations, such as

2590-475: The U.S. For example, several airports in Alaska have scheduled commercial service, such as Stebbins and Nanwalek , which use FAA codes instead of ICAO codes. Thus, neither system completely includes all airports with scheduled service. Some airports are identified in colloquial speech by their IATA code. Examples include LAX and JFK . United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. ( UPS )

2664-697: The U.S. behind FedEx's Memphis Superhub and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport . The company is one of the largest private employers in the United States . On August 28, 1907, James E. Casey founded the American Messenger Company with Claude Ryan in Seattle , Washington, capitalized with $ 100 in debt. Most deliveries at this time were made on foot and bicycles were used for longer trips. The American Messenger Company focused primarily on package delivery to retail stores with special delivery mail delivered for its largest client,

2738-476: The U.S.) and supply chain services. UPS reports its operations in three segments: UPS services for consumers include: UPS also offers UPS SurePost, in which packages are handled by UPS in intermodal transit, and delivered last-mile by USPS. International Package operations include delivery to more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, including shipments wholly outside the United States, as well as shipments with either origin or distribution outside

2812-643: The United States and Canada. In 2003, the company rebranded the Mail Boxes, Etc. network as The UPS Store . In 2004, UPS entered the heavy freight business with the purchase of Menlo Worldwide Forwarding , a former subsidiary of Menlo Worldwide; UPS rebranded it as UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The purchase price was US$ 150 million and the assumption of US$ 110 million in long-term debt. On August 5, 2005, UPS announced that it has completed its acquisition of less-than-truckload (LTL) trucking company Overnite Transportation for US$ 1.25 billion. This

2886-481: The United States, because "Y" was seldom used in the United States, Canada simply used the weather station codes for its airports, changing the "Y" to a "Z" if it conflicted with an airport code already in use. The result is that most major Canadian airport codes start with "Y" followed by two letters in the city's name (for example, YOW for O tta w a , YWG for W innipe g , YYC for C algar y , or YVR for V ancouve r ), whereas other Canadian airports append

2960-607: The airport expansion. Most of the improvements were completed in the 1990s and the airport was totally renewed. During the 1990s, Southwest Airlines began service to the airport which helped passenger boardings increase 97.3 percent. In 1995, the airport's name was changed from Standiford Field to Louisville International Airport. Around that time, SDF opened the two new parallel runways: runway 17L/35R, 8,578 feet (2,615 m) long and runway 17R/35L, 11,887 feet (3,623 m); both are 150 feet (46 m) wide. The Kentucky Air National Guard moved its base to SDF with 8 military aircraft;

3034-440: The airport itself instead of the city it serves, while another code is reserved which refers to the city itself which can be used to search for flights to any of its airports. For instance: Or using a code for the city in one of the major airports and then assigning another code to another airport: When different cities with the same name each have an airport, they need to be assigned different codes. Examples include: Sometimes,

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3108-418: The airport's former name, such as Orlando International Airport 's MCO (for Mc C o y Air Force Base), or Chicago's O'Hare International Airport , which is coded ORD for its original name: Or char d Field. In rare cases, the code comes from the airport's unofficial name, such as Kahului Airport 's OGG (for local aviation pioneer Jimmy H ogg ). In large metropolitan areas, airport codes are often named after

3182-499: The co-located Louisville Air National Guard Base. On January 16, 2019, the Regional Airport Authority voted to change the name of the airport to Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in honor of the boxer and Louisville native Muhammad Ali . On June 6, 2019, the airport unveiled its new logo, featuring "Ali's silhouette, arms up and victorious, against the background of a butterfly". Standiford Field

3256-502: The code SHA, while the newer Shanghai–Pudong adopted PVG. The opposite was true for Berlin : the airport Berlin–Tegel used the code TXL, while its smaller counterpart Berlin–Schönefeld used SXF; the Berlin Brandenburg Airport has the airport code BER, which is also part of its branding. The airports of Hamburg (HAM) and Hannover (HAJ) are less than 100 nautical miles (190 km) apart and therefore share

3330-886: The end. Examples include: A lot of minor airfields without scheduled passenger traffic have ICAO codes but not IATA codes, since the four letter codes allow more number of codes, and IATA codes are mainly used for passenger services such as tickets, and ICAO codes by pilots. In the US, such airfields use FAA codes instead of ICAO. There are airports with scheduled service for which there are ICAO codes but not IATA codes, such as Nkhotakota Airport/Tangole Airport in Malawi or Chōfu Airport in Tokyo, Japan. There are also several minor airports in Russia (e.g., Omsukchan Airport ) which lack IATA codes and instead use internal Russian codes for booking. Flights to these airports cannot be booked through

3404-438: The first floor and ticketing, passenger drop off, and concourse access on the second floor. There are 24 gates in the two concourses. These concourses are connected by a rotunda and connector that contains a unified security checkpoint located in the main section of the terminal. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport has three concrete runways, two of which are parallel with one crosswind. The westernmost runway (17R/35L)

3478-557: The first three letters of the city in which it is located, for instance: The code may also be a combination of the letters in its name, such as: Sometimes the airport code reflects pronunciation, rather than spelling, namely: For many reasons, some airport codes do not fit the normal scheme described above. Some airports, for example, cross several municipalities or regions, and therefore, use codes derived from some of their letters, resulting in: Other airports—particularly those serving cities with multiple airports—have codes derived from

3552-488: The fiscal year 2023, UPS reported earnings of US$ 6.71   billion, with an annual revenue of US$ 90.96   billion, a 9   percent decrease over the previous fiscal cycle. UPS ranked No. 34 on the 2022 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. UPS's primary business is the time-definite delivery of packages and documents worldwide. In recent years, UPS extended its service portfolio to include LTL transportation (primarily in

3626-425: The following format: Most large airports in Canada have codes that begin with the letter "Y", although not all "Y" codes are Canadian (for example, YUM for Yuma, Arizona , and YNT for Yantai , China), and not all Canadian airports start with the letter "Y" (for example, ZBF for Bathurst, New Brunswick ). Many Canadian airports have a code that starts with W, X or Z, but none of these are major airports. When

3700-597: The form of " YYZ ", a song by the rock band Rush , which utilizes the Morse code signal as a musical motif. Some airports have started using their IATA codes as brand names , such as Calgary International Airport (YYC) and Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Numerous New Zealand airports use codes that contain the letter Z, to distinguish them from similar airport names in other countries. Examples include HLZ for Hamilton , ZQN for Queenstown , and WSZ for Westport . Predominantly, airport codes are named after

3774-464: The growing delivery business. In 1919, the company expanded for the first time outside of Seattle to Oakland, California , and changed its name to United Parcel Service. The common carrier service was acquired in 1922 from a company in Los Angeles , California. UPS became one of the only companies in the United States to offer common carrier service. At first, common carrier was only limited to

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3848-487: The international air booking systems or have international luggage transferred there, and thus, they are booked instead through the airline or a domestic booking system. Several heliports in Greenland have 3-letter codes used internally which might be IATA codes for airports in faraway countries. There are several airports with scheduled service that have not been assigned ICAO codes that do have IATA codes, especially in

3922-612: The name of the airport itself, for instance: This is also true with some cities with a single airport (even if there is more than one airport in the metropolitan area of said city), such as BDL for Hartford, Connecticut 's B ra dl ey International Airport or Baltimore's BWI, for B altimore/ W ashington I nternational Airport ; however, the latter also serves Washington, D.C. , alongside Dulles International Airport (IAD, for I nternational A irport D ulles) and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA, for D istrict of C olumbia A irport). The code also sometimes comes from

3996-416: The one they are located in: Other airport codes are of obscure origin, and each has its own peculiarities: In Asia, codes that do not correspond with their city's names include Niigata 's KIJ , Nanchang 's KHN and Pyongyang 's FNJ . EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg , which serves three countries, has three airport codes: BSL, MLH, EAP. Some cities have a name in their respective language which

4070-798: The public in 1947 and all commercial service from Bowman Field moved to Standiford Field. American , Eastern , and TWA were the first airlines and had 1,300 passengers a week. The airlines used World War II barracks on the east side of the field until May 25, 1950, when a proper terminal opened. Lee Terminal could handle 150,000 passengers annually and included 6 new gates, which increased terminal space to 114,420 square feet (10,630 m). The three runways (1, 6 and 11) were all 5000 ft. The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 45 weekday departures on Eastern Airlines, 19 American, 9 TWA, 4 Piedmont and 2 Ozark. Scheduled jet flights (Eastern 720s to Idlewild) began in January–February 1962. In 1970,

4144-609: The purchase of Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, formerly Emery Worldwide . The new facility, designated Worldport Freight Facility (HWP), went online in April 2006 and was the first of the company's regional hubs to begin integrating the Menlo volume into the system. Menlo's facility in Dayton, Ohio , was taken offline in June 2006. In May 2006, UPS announced that for the third time in seven years it would significantly expand its Worldport hub, with

4218-506: The same first and middle letters, indicating that this rule might be followed only in Germany. Many cities retain historical names in their airport codes, even after having undergone an official name/spelling/transliteration change: Some airport codes are based on previous names associated with a present airport, often with a military heritage. These include: Some airports are named for an administrative division or nearby city, rather than

4292-455: The second busiest in the United States. Although UPS has had a hub at Louisville since 1980, the term was not used officially by the company until 2002, after a $ 1   billion, five-year expansion. Previously, the project was named Hub 2000. The facility is currently the size of 5.2   million square feet (48 ha ; 80 football fields ) and capable of handling 115 packages per second, or 416,000 per hour. With more than 20,000 employees, UPS

4366-500: The station code of Malton, Mississauga , where it is located). YUL is used for Montréal–Trudeau (UL was the ID code for the beacon in the city of Kirkland , now the location of Montréal–Trudeau). While these codes make it difficult for the public to associate them with a particular Canadian city, some codes have become popular in usage despite their cryptic nature, particularly at the largest airports. Toronto's code has entered pop culture in

4440-595: The temporary storage of shipments, especially for critical healthcare deliveries such as COVID-19 vaccines . It is part of Changi's cold chain infrastructure, which ensures an unbroken cold chain for pharmaceutical manufacturers . UPS has five regional hubs in the Asia-Pacific region , located in Hong Kong , Japan , Korea , Malaysia , and Thailand . These hubs serve as major sorting and distribution centers for packages moving within and between regions. For

4514-558: The terminal again expanded; the main lobby was extended and the 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m) Delta Air Lines concourse was built. The 1980s brought plans for a new terminal, the Louisville Airport Improvement plan (LAIP). Construction of a new landside terminal designed by Bickel-Gibson Associated Architects Inc. began, costing $ 35 million with capacity for nearly 2 million passengers in 1985. Parallel runways, needed for expanded UPS operations, were part of

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4588-481: The transaction expected to be closed in the fourth quarter. In November 2022, it was announced UPS had acquired the healthcare focused, Europe -based warehousing and temperature-controlled transport company, Bomi Group. In September 2023, it was announced UPS had acquired the Long Beach, California -headquartered time-critical, health care logistics company, MNX for an undisclosed amount. In October 2023, it

4662-602: The transaction from the European Commission . The first joint package car center operation in Dartford , Kent, was opened in 2006. On August 28, 2007, United Parcel Service celebrated its 100th anniversary. All Nippon Airways , a Star Alliance member, and UPS formed a cargo alliance and code-share to transport member cargo in 2008, similarly to an airline alliance . On March 19, 2012, UPS announced that it intended to acquire TNT Express for $ 6.8 billion, in

4736-515: The two-letter code of the radio beacons that were the closest to the actual airport, such as YQX in Gander or YXS in Prince George . Four of the ten provincial capital airports in Canada have ended up with codes beginning with YY, including: Canada's largest airport is YYZ for Toronto Pearson (as YTZ was already allocated to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport , the airport was given

4810-424: The world. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a "primary commercial service" airport since it has over 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) per year. Federal Aviation Administration records show the airport had 1,877,861 revenue enplanements in 2018, an increase of 11.46% from 1,684,738 in 2017. Because of UPS Airlines' operations, Louisville International Airport

4884-496: Was Louisville's main airport, which was too close to downtown to expand. For many years, passenger traffic went through the small brick Lee Terminal at Standiford Field. Today's more modern and much larger facilities were built in the 1980s. Most of the Lee Terminal was later torn down. When Standiford Field was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941, it had one 4,000-foot (1,200 m) runway. The airfield opened to

4958-500: Was announced UPS had acquired the Los Angeles -headquartered reverse logistics company, Happy Returns from PayPal for an undisclosed amount. In January 2024, UPS announced that it planned to cut 12,000 jobs and mandate that staff return to the office five days a week. Chief Executive Carol Tomé blamed the move on a "difficult and disappointing year" in 2023. In July 2024, UPS announced that it had entered in to an agreement to acquire Mexican logistics company Estafeta Mexicana. It

5032-550: Was approved by the FTC and Overnite shareholders on August 4, 2005. On April 28, 2006, Overnite officially became UPS Freight . In 2005, UPS offered non-stop delivery service between Guangzhou and the United States. On October 3, 2005, UPS completed the purchase of Lynx Express , one of the largest independent parcel carriers in the United Kingdom, for £ 55.5 million (US$ 97.1 million) after receiving approval for

5106-668: Was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1941 on a parcel of land south of Louisville that was found not to have flooded during the Ohio River flood of 1937 . It was named for Dr. Elisha David Standiford , a local businessman and politician, who was active in transportation issues and owned part of the land. The field remained under Army control until 1947, when it was turned over to the Louisville Air Board for commercial operations. Until around 1947, Bowman Field

5180-546: Was completed in April and UPS Freight was renamed TForce Freight . In 2021, following the company's shift to target smaller customers to boost profits during the COVID-19 pandemic , UPS reported a 21% jump in their fourth quarter sales to $ 24.9 billion. CEO Carol Tomé reported that Amazon paid UPS $ 11.3 billion in shipping in 2020, accounting for 13.3% of the company's revenue. In September 2021, UPS entered into an agreement to acquire Roadie for an undisclosed amount with

5254-448: Was created to record and upload delivery information to the UPS network immediately upon pickup by every UPS driver. In 1992, UPS began tracking all ground shipments electronically. In 1994, UPS.com debuted, and provided an interface to make what was primarily internal operational information available for customer access. After 27 years of providing this information, UPS chose to hide it again for most packages in 2021 and this information

5328-511: Was established to enable companies to grow their business through a comprehensive menu of integrated financial services through UPS. UPS acquired Challenge Air in 1999 to expand its operations in Latin America . On November 10, 1999, UPS became a public company in the largest initial public offering of the 20th century. In 2001, UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. , a franchised network of packing and shipping retail centers across

5402-583: Was the Spectrum Cycle Shop, Forks Church, Armstrong Co. UPS claimed no liability in the incident, and the case has yet to be solved. In 1975, UPS moved its headquarters to Greenwich, Connecticut , and began serving all of the 48 contiguous states of the United States. This expansion of operations made UPS the first package delivery company to serve every address in the contiguous United States. Additionally in 1975, UPS went international by establishing operations in Canada. In 1976, UPS established

5476-684: Was to expand from 300,000 packages per hour to 416,000 packages per hour. Additionally, several ramps at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport were to be built or altered bringing a total increase of just over 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m). IATA airport code The assignment of these codes is governed by IATA Resolution 763, and it is administered by the IATA's headquarters in Montreal , Canada. The codes are published semi-annually in

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