Originally Posted by
Whale Driver
I have seen ABX flying DHL tails on occasional AMZ flights out of ABE and SKF in the last year.
Correct. At ABX, consistent with what Kougarok notes, there is a group of aircraft that are DHL-owned or DHL-dry-leased. And there is a group of aircraft that, while they are painted in DHL colors and used by ABX primarily on DHL routes, aren't actually owned by DHL. So you can see those tails flying really on any route of ABX's, even though they wear the DHL livery. ABX has the flexibility to use those in a way that Atlas and ATI (and ABX) do not have with the aircraft that are actually dry-leased to Amazon. It's like the two Sonair-owned 747s that Atlas flies for Sonair on the Houston Express. Sonair will occasionally give Atlas permission to use them on certain specific charters (think NFL). But at least when World had the contract (for a dedicated VIP MD11), Sonair was super-extroardinarily-pain-in-the-tuckus persnickety about what groups would be allowed to charter their aircraft, and hyper-alert for any damage to the interior arising from such a group's use. I assume that they're pretty-much the same way with Atlas.