Atlas Air had a difficult year in 2019, but has made some tactical decisions to turn around its financial performance.
Looking like a scene from the Fox drama “24” where Kiefer Sutherland deals with biological weapons, technicians in hazmat suits spray down Volga-Dnepr cargo planes with disinfectant and take other precautions against the coronavirus.
Pilots hold many of the cards when it comes to cargo capacity in China. If they decline flight assignments to avoid catching the coronavirus, lots of merchandise and supplies won’t get delivered on time.
Atlas Air and DHL operate at CVG, and it’s the site of Amazon’s Air Hub.
El Al is hiring Atlas Air to provide a large freighter and fly it on a key route between Europe and Tel Aviv.
Sixteen people died in six fatal cargo plane crashes in 2019.
Atlas Air World Wide Holdings has a lot of debt on its books, so its dry leasing arm Titan Aviation got an outside injection of money to help it grow.
Amazon hires passenger carrier to operate freighters.
Government mulling options as rescue bid stalls
More substantive talks could ensue in the four-year-old labor saga between Atlas Air and its pilots’ union after a federal appeals court ruled the union must abide by arbitration procedures.
