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Originally Posted by wjcandee
Seems like the most significant "refleeting" of ATI has come from the kazillion planes they're flying for Amazon.
Which they're flying not because of price or the cost of their pilots, but rather significantly because they didn't try to embarrass Amazon, hold it hostage, and screw up its ability to serve its customers during Peak...
Amazon awarded the contract to ATSG, not ATI. The former is a holding company derived from siphoning assets and profits from ABX into holding company. Following the humanly unnatural act of a child giving birth to the parent, ATSG utilized the cash not to invest and grow ABX, but instead to acquire other companies (ATI then Cappy back in 2007). Fleet wise, the only thing ATI brought to the table was a fleet of outdated DC8's which became virtually worthless upon the cessation of BAX Global contracts. Absent the ATSG transaction, ATI likely would have gone out of business, I"ll repeat, prior to ATSG acquisition in 2007, ATI had ZERO B767's. It was Joe Hete who made the decision to give planes to ATI. I'll take the later back if you can prove to me that you are actually a fly on the wall that heard Jeff Bezos tell Joe Hete to give planes to ATI..
From ABX pilots viwpoint, ATSG whipsaw situation is akin to you putting your sweat and $$ into a 401K or IRA only to watch your neighbor or cousin get the benefits. (Paraphrasing prior ABX poster.) There, beat you to it, nfd.