FedEx, the world’s largest cargo airline, is among the package delivery services monitoring the ground stop, saying customers can track the status of their shipments through the company’s website.
“We are prepared to activate contingency plans to minimize service interruptions and will resume normal flight operations as soon as the FAA permits,” said Shannon Davis, a FedEx spokesperson.
The FAA ground shutdown applies to all flights departing from U.S. airports and therefore affects cargo and package shipping operations that rely on air transportation.
U.S. airlines move about 61,000 tons of goods — from letters to packages — to and from more than 220 countries daily, according to the trade group Airlines for America.
FedEx has nearly 700 planes operating around the world, shipping an average of 17 million packages and 20 million pounds of freight per day, according to the company’s website. Most of these shipments are made to the United States
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