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Old 19th Apr 2006, 14:34
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The -200 has become a burden with oil at $72/barrel and there is no sign of oil getting lower anytime soon. This might put more pressure on Atlas to provide a -400, provided BA is worth it to them as a client.

Atlas themselves are planning to park their 8 classics from their Polar unit in the desert. Not surprising, this announcement just came yesterday -the day oil prices hit a new high- from Jeff Ericcson, CEO of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings. He is also one of the Directors at GSS.

With oil at $72/barrel, possibly heading for $80 every airline will hurt, and if oil goes to $100, there just might be another shakeout among the Airlines.

Freighters might be less affected though, as Freight Companies can generally impose a fuel surcharge on the customer and recover the cost.

Bottom line is that -400 freighters are in huge demand right now and BA/GSS will be lucky if they get an extra one. We all hope for one, but I guess it depends on how important BA as a customer is to Atlas for them to fork out another -400.
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