ABX Air

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ABX Air
IATA GB	ICAO ABX	Callsign Abex
Founded		1980
Fleet size		113
Destinations		183
Parent company		ABX Air, Inc.
Headquarters		Wilmington, Ohio
Key people		Joe Hete (President and CEO), Quint Turner (CFO)
Website: http://www.abxair.com

ABX Air (NASDAQ: ABXA) is a cargo airline based in Wilmington, Ohio, USA. It operates overnight express small package services and freight in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. Its main base is Wilmington Airpark, the former Clinton County Air Force Base, located just southeast of Wilmington, Ohio, and owned by DHL.

ABX Air's main customer is DHL, and the vast majority of the freight it carries is for them. Most of ABX Air's planes are painted with DHL's yellow and red livery.

ABX Air participates in shipping, charter services, specialty training, parts sales and aircraft maintenance from a privately owned 2,000 acre (8 km²) airport that includes 1.24 million square feet (115,000 m²) of space. They employ 10,000 people.

Contents 1 History 2 Fleet 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1980 when Airborne Freight acquired Midwest Air Charter. It started operations on 1980-04-17. Airborne Express, as the airline was initially named, was a wholly owned subsidiary of Airborne Freight of Seattle. ABX became a public company in 2003-08-16 as part of the merger of DHL and Airborne, in which DHL kept Airborne's ground operations and spun off its air operations as ABX. It employs 10,000 staff (at September 2005). ABX Air's common shares are traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the ticker symbol ABXA. In early 2007, ABX Air announced that they are in negotiations with All Nippon Airways to establish an ACMI agreement with them to begin flying freight within Asia. The contract would initially utilize 2 B767-200SF aircraft, and would be open-ended to grow from there.

[edit] Fleet

The ABX Air fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[1] :

• 31 Boeing 767-200
• 1 Boeing 767-200F
• 1 Boeing 767-200SF
• 4 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61
• 5 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63
• 1 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63AF
• 1 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF
• 4 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63F
• 1 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63PF
• 2 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-10
• 30 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30
• 4 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30CF
• 2 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30F
• 4 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30LWF
• 3 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30RC
• 29 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-40

[edit] References

1. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006

[edit] Further reading

• Gene G. Marcial. "Why ABX Air Is Really Delivering", Business Week, 2004-09-27.
• Ruud Leeuw (2006-04-20). Airborne Express. Airlines Remembered.
• "ABX Air sees 2Q earnings drop", Business First of Columbus, 2006-08-10.

[edit] External links

• ABX Air