Kalitta Air
The following press release dated February 27 should answer your question:
Kalitta Air Announces Transatlantic Scheduled All-Cargo Service
Thursday February 27, 11:46 am ET
DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2003--Kalitta Air, LLC announced that it will begin regularly scheduled Boeing 747-200 freighter service between the United States and Europe on April 3. The flights will operate from New York's JFK International Airport (JFK) and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (ORD) in the U.S. The European points served will be the East Midlands Airport (EMA) in the United Kingdom and Amsterdam (AMS) in the Netherlands. Initial service will be five weekly frequencies, three of which will depart from JFK and two from ORD.
This is the second step in the carrier's development of an international all-cargo network to service the growing needs of airfreight forwarders for safe, reliable and cost effective airport-to-airport scheduled freighter operations. Kalitta Air began scheduled 747-200 freighter operations between the U.S. and Hong Kong last summer and has quickly become a major carrier in that market.
Over the Atlantic, Kalitta Air has aligned itself with well established sales and marketing experts. "The problem facing a low-cost carrier in international air freight services is how to market and sell its capacity. The costs of developing an in-house cargo sales and marketing force are high and the pool of available talent is shallow," said Conrad Kalitta, the airline's CEO. "That is why small and start-up cargo carriers often must opt for offering most or all of their capacity to established airlines on an ACMI or wet lease basis. We have taken a different approach that we believe will allow our cost efficiencies to be passed through to airfreight forwarders and their customers."
The Wallace Air Cargo Group, Inc. in the U.S. and Inter Aviation Services b.v. in Europe will serve as Kalitta Air's sales, marketing and customer service arm. "The Wallace Air Cargo Group and Inter Aviation Services have proven airfreight credentials. These are experts in their field and give Kalitta Air sales capabilities in scheduled airport-to-airport freight services that few can match. What's more, The Wallace Group and IAS understand the importance of cost efficient operations." said Kalitta. "We have chosen to concentrate on the low-margin, high volume air freight traffic and our entire cost structure is keyed to that business, much as Southwest's is in the passenger arena. It is critical to us and to our customers that our unit costs remain low. With these two companies managing our sales and customer services, I feel confident that we will be able to control our overall expenses and exceed our customers' expectations."
Kalitta Air, LLC is an U.S. air carrier holding authority from both the FAA and the DOT to engage in domestic and international all-cargo transportation. The Company is based at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, MI. It operates a fleet of eight Boeing 747 freighter aircraft in scheduled and charter commercial services and in support of the requirements of Department of Defense's Air Mobility Command.