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Nov 19, 2013 (newstodate): Seldom heard in the aviation business: an airline that does not go for growth!
The rare exception is Denmark's regional and ACMI carrier Danish Air Transport that currently operates a fleet of 19 aircraft with a staff around 300 employees.
-Year after year, our annual revenues before tax have been between 20 and 40 mio Danish Crowns, and this is basically satisfactory for us. We do not want to grow beyond this, and we are currently reducing our fleet by phasing out some of the oldest units and focusing instead on optimizing the utilization of the core fleet of more modern aircraft, says Jesper Rungholm, DAT co-owner and CEO.
-Basing our business on optimizing the utilization of our modern fleet, including the ex-Cimber ATR 42-500 aircraft one of which has been sold, we have decided to pull out from Rygge, in Norway, responding instead to a rather surprising surge in the demand for regional aircraft in the global ACMI market.
-The ATR aircraft are in hefty demand in many markets, and we are actually one of very few operators with the ATR 42-500 available for ACMI contracts. Thus one aircraft will soon leave for Venezuela, and an ACMI contract in Saudi Arabia has again been prolonged for another six months.
-As the ACMI market is growing fast, we respond by placing our ATR aircraft there rather than operating them on more risky and unstable regional routes, says Mr Rungholm.
The rare exception is Denmark's regional and ACMI carrier Danish Air Transport that currently operates a fleet of 19 aircraft with a staff around 300 employees.
-Year after year, our annual revenues before tax have been between 20 and 40 mio Danish Crowns, and this is basically satisfactory for us. We do not want to grow beyond this, and we are currently reducing our fleet by phasing out some of the oldest units and focusing instead on optimizing the utilization of the core fleet of more modern aircraft, says Jesper Rungholm, DAT co-owner and CEO.
-Basing our business on optimizing the utilization of our modern fleet, including the ex-Cimber ATR 42-500 aircraft one of which has been sold, we have decided to pull out from Rygge, in Norway, responding instead to a rather surprising surge in the demand for regional aircraft in the global ACMI market.
-The ATR aircraft are in hefty demand in many markets, and we are actually one of very few operators with the ATR 42-500 available for ACMI contracts. Thus one aircraft will soon leave for Venezuela, and an ACMI contract in Saudi Arabia has again been prolonged for another six months.
-As the ACMI market is growing fast, we respond by placing our ATR aircraft there rather than operating them on more risky and unstable regional routes, says Mr Rungholm.