Originally Posted by
CaptTX
Amazon absolutely despises ABX after what they did with their sickout early on in the Prime Air days. They hardly do any Amazon flying and last time I was in PHX the rumor was ABX was going to lose all of their Amazon flying completely by the summer. ATI would be the most likely carrier to take on the Atlas and ABX flying but with almost a 20% of our pilot population gone just in the first 4 months of this year alone, I have no idea how we could staff 17 more airplanes.
The guy who was running the show at the time did indeed have the attitude that he was going to show 1224 who was boss. The current manager, maybe not so much. 1224 leadership has changed tack since then, and it is having a positive effect.
As for "losing" all Amazon flying, it's not so much that as the deal Amazon made with Hawaiian to replace older, smaller aircraft (read: 767-200s) with A330s. Two of them have already left the certificate. Two more of the six ABX had are expected to go in the third quarter. ATI also flies -200s, so you can expect they will be affected as well.
As for 17 more 767s to ABX, that is your typical game of telephone where one thing becomes another the farther it gets from the source. What we know is that there are 17 767s currently being flown by Atlas that are up for bid. Who gets them remains to be seen.