Originally Posted by
FlyAstarJets
Yes and no. Or more accurately "Yes then no".
In June of '06, Astar Air Cargo (formerly DHL Airways), under the direction of John Dasburg who was hand picked to run the airline by Klaus Zumwinkel Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Deutsche Post, "expressed an interest" to purchase all outstanding shares of ABX Air. Eight months later Zumwinkel, caught up in a European wide tax evasion scheme, resigned from Deutsche Post. After Frank Appel replaced Zumwinkel at DP, all talk of a purchase of ABX air by it's proxy Astar ceased. That's when we (Astar) began seeing the beginning of the end for us.
Four years later in June of 2012, the one airline using the call sign "DHL", as it had since 1969, ceased operations.
And all of this has what to do with the irony of DHL dumping millions (for whatever reason..purchase agreement, complete US blunder..etc we all lived through that nightmare one way or another and know the facts..)
While they were winding Astar down?