Sale of DHL Would Mean Lost Jobs at Mather Airport
January 27, 2008 – 1:01 amFollowing widely published rumors that DHL may be preparing to sell all or part of it’s US operations to rival FedEx, talk is already getting underway about what a DHL sale would mean in terms of job losses and economic impacts. The Sacramento Bee kicked off the food for thought session when it asked “Is the air cargo business at Mather Airport about to crash?”, prompted by the logical observation that a buyout by FedEx would likely result in FedEx consolidating DHL’s Mather operations into Sacramento International Airport, where it currently operates from.