FedEx flies home to Memphis after a week of corporate milestones.

FedEx landed its Bombardier Challenger 300 (N43FE) at Memphis International Airport on 15 June 2026 at 18:34 UTC, returning from New Orleans Lakefront Airport after a 66-minute flight. The trip caps a week in which the logistics giant completed two transformative corporate events.

FedEx returned to its Memphis headquarters the same week it ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with its 5,000 pilots. According to a 9 June Reuters report, 83 percent of FedEx pilots voted in favor of a contract that raises wages roughly 40 percent this year and includes retroactive pay of up to $150,000 for captains. The contract takes effect 29 June, per [commercialappeal.com](https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/industries/logistics/2026/06/09/fedex-pilots-new-contract-raises/90474572007/). The trip also follows the 1 June completion of the FedEx Freight spinoff, a move that created an independent publicly traded company under the ticker FDXF, as noted on [newsroom.fedex.com](https://newsroom.fedex.com/newsroom/global-english/fedex-completes-spin-off-of-fedex-freight).

The flight from New Orleans comes after a busy week for N43FE, which flew Memphis-to-Teterboro on 12 June and Teterboro-to-Memphis on 11 June. CEO Raj Subramaniam maintains the company's Memphis headquarters as the operational heart of a global cargo fleet numbering more than 700 aircraft.