This thread and its predecessors have always baffled me. I joined Atlas not so long ago, working in Purchase (one of the reasons why I stopped moderating, became a conflict of interest). Wouldn't it be better if the hatchet could finally be buried? Just get on with making loadsamoney and burying the opposition? And getting more in our pockets in the process?
I remember the fighting about using an Atlas a/c for a Polar flight and vice-versa.... it still happens. And why not. Does PO simply not operate a flight because there is no a/c available that has PO painted on the side? Does Atlas not accept a lucrative charter because no suitably painted aircraft is free?
Do we ferry a GT -200 from the US to Europe when we could put a PO load on it and release the PO aircraft to do something else?
Am I making sense here? I know I make sense to myself