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Amazon air transport provider, ATSG, names new president

Eric Kulisch
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[Source: ASTG]

Air Transport Services Group, a major provider of midsize leased cargo aircraft and transportation services for customers such as DHL and Amazon, named current Chief Operating Officer Richard F. Corrado president, effective Sept. 16.

Joseph C. Hete will relinquish his role as president but remain as chief executive and a board director, the company said Sept. 9. He will focus on strategic planning and developing the management team, while Corrado will focus on day-to-day oversight of operations and goal setting.

The board also elected Edward J. Koharik III to succeed Corrado as COO. He was most recently vice president of FlightSafety International in New York City. Earlier, he was a director at the U.S. Transportation Command, working with more than 400 commercial providers of transportation services to supplement the federal government’s own transport resources. As COO, Koharik will take over the day-to-day operations management for the majority of the ATSG companies.

ASTG is a carrier for U.S. Transportation Command.


The move is part of ATSG’s succession plan. Hete has led the company since it went public in 2003. 

Corrado is credited with growing the company’s popular business model that allows customers to lease aircraft and contract for transportation services separately and for positioning the company for the growth in e-commerce. Subsidiaries ABX Air and Air Transport, for example, run a time-definite express network for Amazon Prime Air.

Corrado spent seven years as chief commercial officer and president of ATSG’s Cargo Aircraft Management subsidiary before rising to COO in 2017.


Eric Kulisch

Eric is the Supply Chain and Air Cargo Editor at FreightWaves. An award-winning business journalist with extensive experience covering the logistics sector, Eric spent nearly two years as the Washington, D.C., correspondent for Automotive News, where he focused on regulatory and policy issues surrounding autonomous vehicles, mobility, fuel economy and safety. He has won two regional Gold Medals and a Silver Medal from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for government and trade coverage, and news analysis. He was voted best for feature writing and commentary in the Trade/Newsletter category by the D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He won Environmental Journalist of the Year from the Seahorse Freight Association in 2014 and was the group's 2013 Supply Chain Journalist of the Year. In December 2022, Eric was voted runner up for Air Cargo Journalist by the Seahorse Freight Association. As associate editor at American Shipper Magazine for more than a decade, he wrote about trade, freight transportation and supply chains. He has appeared on Marketplace, ABC News and National Public Radio to talk about logistics issues in the news. Eric is based in Vancouver, Washington. He can be reached for comments and tips at [email protected]