Originally Posted by C17B74

Skylease, Western Global, just a guess based on MD11 profile. It’s anybody’s roll of the diceregarding the future of these ACMI outfits, definitely some seem better than others, contracts vary and business “ partners” (Amazon, DHL, Alibaba, etc.) change their MO as the wind changes. Some have been around quite awhile and have quite a portfolio which lends oneself to believe it will remain resilient. Anything and everything can be chopped up and sold if the price is right, timing is right or both. Truth is no one knows as nothing is ever concrete. All seem to be doing very well like any other cargo outfit ACMI or not so it’s hard to really judge as cargo has literally gone viral.

ABX and Kalitta bringing home contract upgrades/finalization is great for the community. We hope to benefit as well, but who knows. It always seems that most of us can cut desired pieces from other contracts and life would be perfect, but that’s not how it works unfortunately. Life is tough enough, it’s a helluva lot tougher when your stupid. Until I look back from retirement that remains to be seen luckily.

ACMI flying has been great if you enjoy non-scripted cookie cutter operations forcing you into some fantastic locations and sketchy ones at best. World is sketchy right now. Plenty of story telling with booming e-commerce, clothes, flowers, fish, lobster, cattle/horses (stank), race cars, bands, computers, killer batteries, mil stuff, troops, medical equip, pharmaceuticals, NFL, FedEx, UPS, you name it we’ve probably seen it or looked the other way.

*Guam was great last week compared to most areas right now. If you have the chance, go for it and take a nice break.

Originally Posted by Swakid8

Guam is awesome, lived there for 5 years. Looking forward to some layovers there.

Originally Posted by Roverruckus

I would take whatever airframe is offered, I made my preference for the 74 known and was offered a 76 class. New contract is supposed to have a 18 month seatlock which is no big deal (but obviously that's subject to change)

Originally Posted by C17B74

Plenty of story telling with ... cattle/horses (stank),.

Originally Posted by Twin Wasp

My record is 1080 pigs. Several orders of magnitude worse than a couple hundred cows or horses.

Originally Posted by WinggedHussars

My friends there say a contract should be signed by the end of the year and it'll likely be at the very least industry standard.

Originally Posted by PolarTiger

Your friends must be optimistic new hires. "Contract is coming" has been a running joke at Atlas since 2016.

Originally Posted by PolarTiger

Your friends must be optimistic new hires. "Contract is coming" has been a running joke at Atlas since 2016. Reality is, a contract will come, it will be garbage, and everyone will accept it because your options are limited. The days when the Union had the upper hand are long gone. And even then, they sat and did nothing but waste union dues on beers. Thank god, this time, they weren't flying...

Originally Posted by yrbroom

Big news this Friday!!