Gemini Air Cargo

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Gemini Air Cargo MD-11

Gemini Air Cargo is a ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, & Insurance) cargo airline headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, USA. It operates worldwide cargo schedules and charters on a wet-lease basis. With a lot of experience in international operations into 3rd world countries, and experience on 6 continents, Gemini is well regarded in the ACMI world for their experience. Its main bases are Miami International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. Flight crew, of which there are approximately 200 are "Home Based" and as such can live anywhere with in 3 hours of an airport. Flight crew will usually go on a 2 week on 2 week off schedule.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: GR
ICAO Code: GCO
Callsign: Gemini ^[1] Gemini also uses the call sign of the particular air carrier it's under contract with, for example "Lufthansa".
Also known as GAC.

[edit] History

The airline was established in December 1995 and started operations on 24 October 1996. It began operations as a freight forwarder, wet-leasing three aircraft from Sun Country Airlines for its first year until it was granted certification for its own aircraft in October 1996. In July 1999 the airline was acquired by William Carlyle. It was owned by the Carlyle Group (56%), Lehmen Brothers (36%), management (5%) and Oak Tree Capital (3%). Today, it is mainly owned by Bayside Capital Investments and has 412 employees (at January 2005). The Airline emerged from bankruptcy reorganization in a debt restructuring involving a DIP (debtor in position) and exchange of debt for equity with Bayside Capital in August 2006. Bayside has pledged to grow Gemini and take advantage of the fast growing cargo market into the next two decades.

[edit] Services

Gemini Air Cargo operates the following freight services (at January 2005):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Anchorage, Cincinnati, Columbus, Los Angeles, Miami and New York.

International scheduled destinations: Brussels, Guayaquil, Hong Kong, Nottingham, Quito, Sapporo, Frankfurt Seoul, Taipei, and Medellín.

[edit] Fleet

The Gemini Air Cargo fleet, which is exclusively a "Heavy" aircraft fleet, includes the following aircraft (at March 2007):

4 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F
6 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30F ^[2]
It is reported that they are actively seeking to add to their fleet of MD-11's.
One DC-10 is now being used as a spare and plans are being laid to retire 3 DC-10's in 2007.