Great, great info wjcandee, as always.
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wjcandee
Amazon reserves one ATI and one Atlas 767-300 as a hot spare, one in CVG and one at ONT, but each carrier group also has maintenance spares that are used sometimes for Amazon and sometimes for other business: 255CM (767-200) at ATI, 1709A at Atlas, and 395CM at ATI. ABX has a little more slack in its fleet to cover unexpected needs than do the other two.
Just one note: Atlas has had two Amazon hot spares for the past three months; or at least planned to have them as spares. One at CVG, and one at BWI (in October it was in CLT). Both CVG and BWI R3 reserve were in the bid packets for Jan and Feb.
I do have a question that I would appreciate your insight on: About a week ago, an afternoon Atlas Amazon flight CVG-IAH went mechanical. They swapped from the Amazon tail into a DHL tail (N65_GT) to cover the flight. How the heck did they do that?! Do DHL and AMZN have an agreement to cover each other's flying? I mean, the N65_GT aircraft are all owned by DHL, right?