Originally Posted by wjcandee

It's interesting how the major integrators are moving away from the 747, while other shippers seem to want more of them.

Flexport just dumped Western Global as its operator because it wasn't happy with the dispatch reliability of the 747 that WGN was operating for it, and was particularly unhappy with an MD11 frequently being substituted for it. So it went to, of all places, Atlas for a factory 747F with the nose door. Just happened.

I say "of all places" because with the problems Atlas is having, I'm surprised that if Flexport wanted high reliability, they didn't go to Kalitta.

Regardless, I also noticed that National has customers for 3 additional 747s that it is starting to add.