" An AOC is tied to an operating business. So what's really being bought / sold is the business itself."
pk4,
Ah so. Assuming Florida West is somehow involved (just an assumption so far), they have a complicated family tree. I've pestered, uh, I mean contacted my usual suspects to see what they know but none has made any definitive statement about what's up, if anything. I did see a couple of DXers on another forum say they'd been approached in connection to this. Taking the flying in-house would be a rather large undertaking, I'd assume. One of my sources speculated about the idea of Amazon doing ONLY its own flying and making the operation Part 91...just a thought...he didn't claim it'd work legally. IIRC, Eli Lily had a B707 years ago in KIND that they used to fly their product overseas under Part 91.
https://worldairlinenews.com/2015/02...-southern-air/
http://www.southernair.com/Documents...al-1-19-16.pdf