Multiple Choice
FedEx chose Memphis, Tennessee, as its U.S. hub because:
A) the city is in the center of the United States, geographically.
B) the airport has relatively few hours of bad weather closures.
C) it needed a means to reach cities to which it did not have direct flights.
D) the firm believed that a hub system was superior to traditional city-to-city flight scheduling.
E) All of these are true.
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