Originally Posted by
wjcandee
I think those Amazon 762s will stay leased to Amazon and operated by ABX for the forseeable future, unless/until they hit their LOV. That will arrive over the next several years for a couple of them, but the rest have some time. So the ones that leave will likely go one by one. I also think that ABX has the possibility of picking up more DHL work, like the 763 that just came over from Kalitta.
I apologize that I haven't looked at the cycles on the Amazon frames in a while. At 700-800 cycles per year on average in Amazon service, 5 of the 6 762s have a minimum of 3-4 years of service left, and most much more than that. The EXCEPTION is N795AX, which has about 8 or 9 months of service before it hits its LOV of 50,000 cycles. As you may know, ATSG has run a few of the 767-200 conversions all the way to the LOV (like N798AX). So it will be retired almost-certainly in the next year. But the rest have a while.
The most recent cycle numbers I have, are:
N744AX: 44774 (in June 2022)
N749AX: 39788 (in June 2022)
N750AX: 41412 (in October 2022)
N768AX: 47083 (in July 2022)
N774AX: 45669 (in September 2022)
N795AX: 49448 (in October 2022)
And just for grins, N740AX, an ABX-operated 762 which is not an Amazon lease, but which is Line Number 6, the lowest line number of any 767 still flying, has only about 44500 cycles right now, so she could conceivably fly for many more years.