ATSG sign deal with Qantas and DHL
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) announced the commencement of new wide-body freighter service for Qantas Freight between Australia and New Zealand, and for DHL between Europe and Africa.
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) announced the commencement of new wide-body freighter service for Qantas Freight between Australia and New Zealand, and for DHL between Europe and Africa.
ATSG said its subsidiary Air Transport International (ATI) is scheduled to begin providing wide-body ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance) service for Qantas Freight between Australia and New Zealand under a two-year agreement starting 15 June.
ATI’s Boeing 767-200-SF will allow Qantas Freight to maintain overnight wide-body freight service and capacity between Sydney, Auckland, and Christchurch on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The ATI aircraft also will be available for charter work and weekend rotations as needed.
“ATI is proud to be providing service to Qantas Freight, the air freight division of Qantas Airways Limited, a name that’s long been synonymous with quality,” said ATI President, Jim Hobson.
ATSG’s subsidiary, ABX Air, is providing air charter service six days a week for European Air Transport NV/SA, a DHL affiliate, between Brussels, Belgium, and Lagos, Nigeria. Operations began last month.
The agreement is in addition to ABX Air’s ACMI services for DHL in the United States. Initially, ABX Air will operate the Brussels-Lagos run through September 2009.
“ABX Air is pleased to be providing these expanded services to DHL,” said ABX Air President John Graber. “We will continue to seek new opportunities to support them and other major customers, both in the U.S. and abroad, with our expanding fleet of wide-body Boeing 767-200 freighters.”
Both ABX Air and Airborne Maintenance & Engineering Services (AMES) personnel will maintain the aircraft in Brussels and in Lagos. AMES is a Part 145 FAA-certificated Maintenance Repair and Overhaul business that ATSG formed last month.
