Atlas Air selects GeoLogistics’ Flynn as chief

Atlas Air selects GeoLogistics’ Flynn as chief    Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc., parent company of Atlas Air Cargo and Polar Air Cargo, has appointed William J. Flynn as its president and chief executive officer to succeed Jeffrey H. Erickson, effective June 22.
   Industry veteran Flynn was president and CEO at Santa Ana, Calif.-based global freight forwarder GeoLogistics Corp., overseeing the company’s $454 million sale last year to Kuwaiti logistics firm PWC Logistics.
   Flynn has also held senior roles at freight railroad CSX Transportation, and during a prior 23-year career with U.S. shipping line Sea-Land Service, which was sold to Denmark’s Maersk Line in 1999.