Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. is an airline holding company based in Purchase, New York. The group owns Atlas Air, Polar Air Cargo, and has a freighter aircraft leasing joint venture with Bain Capital: Titan Aircraft Investments. The company was named after Atlas, a figure in Greek mythology, who carries the sky on his shoulders.
The company was listed on Nasdaq until 2023 when it was taken private by a group of investors led by Apollo Global Management.[2][3]
Operations
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings owns Atlas Air, Polar Air Cargo, and Titan Aircraft Investments. It is headquartered in Purchase, New York.
Atlas Air operates flights on an ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance), CMI and air charter basis for airlines, express operators, freight forwarders, charter brokers, global shippers and the U.S. Military, along with dry-leasing freighter aircraft. Atlas Air has global operations established in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America.[4]
Titan Aircraft Investments is an aircraft dry-leasing company. Titan owns 29 aircraft in its dry-leasing fleet. The dry-leasing fleet consists of seven Boeing 777 freighters, twenty-one Boeing 767 freighters (leased to parent Atlas Air), and one Boeing 737-300 freighter.[4]
Fleet
As of December 2021, Atlas Air operates the following aircraft:[4]
External links
References
- Rochelle Kass. Bumpy Ride for Atlas Air The Journal News, 18 March 2002, retrieved 29 October 2023^
- Apollo-led group to take Atlas Air private in a deal worth more than $3 billion CNBC, August 4, 2022^
- Atlas Air Worldwide acquisition completed Aviation Business News, March 20, 2022^
- Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Annual Report 2021 Form 10-k^
- Atlas Air Worldwide Announces Expanded 747-400F Service For Nippon Cargo Airlines Atlas Air, January 8, 2019^
- Flightradar24. Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map Flightradar24, retrieved 2023-02-03^
- Boeing, Atlas Air Celebrate Delivery of Final 747, an Airplane that Transformed Aviation and Global Air Travel MediaRoom, retrieved 2023-02-03^
- Atlas Air Worldwide Announces 747-8F ACMI Service For Qantas Freight Atlas Air, April 4, 2019^