newstodate.aero
Mar 27, 2014 (newstodate): Star Air, owned by the Danish Maersk Group, has taken over one more converted Boeing 767-200 freighter on a lease agreement with GECAS.
In the fleet are already 11 similar aircraft operating on European routes under a 10-year contract with UPS, based at Cologne Airport.
Excess capacity is next sold to other customers, primarily for operations in Europe.
The UPS contract has been in a tender process this year, and Star Air's expansion of its fleet seems to indicate that it has secured the prolongation of its ongoing cooperation.
Sources in the industry indicated that another contender to the contract, West Atlantic had hoped to snatch the business after entering its cooperation with the Ohio-based Air Transport Services Group, ATSG that in 2013 took a 25 percent stake in the Gothenburg-based West Atlantic Group that is to add the Boeing 767 freighter to its fleet from this summer.
In ATSG's fleet are some 50 of these aircraft as well as Boeing 757 and DC-8 freighters.
In the fleet are already 11 similar aircraft operating on European routes under a 10-year contract with UPS, based at Cologne Airport.
Excess capacity is next sold to other customers, primarily for operations in Europe.
The UPS contract has been in a tender process this year, and Star Air's expansion of its fleet seems to indicate that it has secured the prolongation of its ongoing cooperation.
Sources in the industry indicated that another contender to the contract, West Atlantic had hoped to snatch the business after entering its cooperation with the Ohio-based Air Transport Services Group, ATSG that in 2013 took a 25 percent stake in the Gothenburg-based West Atlantic Group that is to add the Boeing 767 freighter to its fleet from this summer.
In ATSG's fleet are some 50 of these aircraft as well as Boeing 757 and DC-8 freighters.