I agree. In the long term your certainly better off with new equipment. But I believe the problem with a lot of the scumbag ACMI outfits is they are trying show profit in the short term, instead of investing in the long term. Some of them have been quite successful doing this. My thinking with Atlas buying the new -8's is the cost to purchase them may cripple them in the short term. I hope I'm wrong. I think they would be better off financially buying 400's. Leave the -8's to the company's that have their own countries standing behind them.
As an operator, Please buy -8's cuz I wanna fly one.