That startled me, too. Maybe he is referring to the 4 cargo 757s flying for DHL, but more likely the DOD 757 combi business, which is decent-paying international work, albeit not at an enormous frequency. But if one looks at the financials, the DOD is a higher percentage of topline revenue than one might think for a 4-aircraft combi operation.

(If you want to see what is likely a cash-cow DOD-focused 757 operation, take a look at the utilization of National's two pax 757s. National is flying the crap out of them, especially when you consider that many of these flights don't show on public sources once they leave the CONUS. I was surprised, and I don't understand how they get the reliability they need to keep the DOD happy with that kind of schedule and only two (older) aircraft.)

The point was that the planes aren't sitting around waiting for work making it doubtful ATLAS/ATI would drop current revenue sources for low profit online retail lift.

Amazon is buying Whole Foods for 13.7 billion.

So they don't want to be bigger than FDX? They want to be bigger than Food Lion.

More likely they want into the brick & mortar grocery business and they just bought their whole supply chain to do it.


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I don't know about Food Lion, but Kroger (KR) is getting crushed.

They should have bought Piggly-Wiggly.

I remember shopping there in the 70's when based down south. They would give you stamps and you could use the stamps to pay for things out of a catalog!

S&H Green Stamps? My tongue tingles just at the thought of how many of those suckers I licked and stuck in books for my Mother and Grandmother.

Today is the two year anniversary of OP's post.