Gema-Thanks for your note, however agree that Atlas Air has a few ACMI customers, such as BA, AZ, AF et al (we all know that). However must remind you the number of airlines who have dropped them, even post Sept 11th. What I find interesting however is that Stan, in his presentation at a Luxembourg conference Nov 19th said that the new scheme and schedules are customer driven, literally. This means that customers dictate days of ops. Ok, fine however what happens if on the HKG - ANC route, one customer prefers a Monday departure, the other a Wed departure. Atlas seems so sure about themselves, it makes me laugh as they even mentioned that in some cases they can operate less than half the payload on a -400F. We all know what the costs are.
Atlas has too many expensive toys to play with, owe lots of dosh and all the only benefit is to stay afloat with some cash flow, barely enough to pay the bils.
And to you (MOVE-IT) or OSCAR. Atlas does in fact seem like a wobbly fish, or perhaps a chicken with its head cut off. Running in all directions, hitting one wall after another. On top of that, with a 'cocky' attidute!