Sadly, a desperate attempt to re-make itself with a new business model and continue operating even as a good chunk of the fleet is returned by former wet-lease customers in Q1 2002.
Always a visionary, Chowdry moved Atlas towards the purchase of Polar even over the objections of some of his closest friends and senior managers. Could he have sensed in the months before his untimely death that the once-successful wet-lease business model he coined was soon to run out of fuel?
While Atlas could perhaps have pulled off its transformation prior to the events of September 11, how many (even in the soon to be empty halls in Purchase as tenant partner Texaco is leaving) optimists remain?
Is a bankruptcy of MC's once proud vision - the next phase of an Atlas 'Survivor' game?