ABX Air, Inc. is a cargo airline headquartered at Airborne Airpark in unincorporated Clinton County, Ohio, United States, near the City of Wilmington.^[1] ABX operates scheduled, ad hoc charter and ACMI freight services, including overnight express small-package services and freight in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. It also provides specialist training, maintenance and engineering services and part sales. Its main base is Airborne Airpark^[2], the former Clinton County Air Force Base, located just southeast of Wilmington, Ohio, and owned by DHL.

ABX Air's main customer is DHL, and the vast majority of the freight it carries is for them. Most of ABX Air's planes are painted with DHL's yellow and red livery. ABX Air participates in shipping, charter services, specialty training, parts sales and aircraft maintenance from a privately owned 2,000 acre (8 kmē) airport that includes 1.24 million square feet (115,000 mē) of space.

History

The airline was established in 1980 when Airborne Freight acquired Midwest Air Charter. It started operations on 17 April 1980. Airborne Express, as the airline was initially named, was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airborne Freight of Seattle^[2]. ABX became a public company on 16 August 2003 as part of the merger of DHL and Airborne, in which DHL kept Airborne's ground operations and spun off its air operations as ABX. It employs 10,000 staff (at September 2005). ABX Air's common shares are traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the ticker symbol ABXA. In early 2007, ABX Air announced that it is in negotiations with All Nippon Airways to establish an ACMI agreement with All Nippon to begin flying freight within Asia. The contract would initially utilize 2 Boeing 767-200SF aircraft, and would be open-ended to grow from there. The airline has 7,600 employees (at March 2007)^[2]. On 2 November, 2007, CEO Joe Hete and the ABX Air board of directors announced that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire Cargo Holdings International, the parent company of ATI (Air Transport International)and Capital Cargo International Airlines for a cost of $350 million.

On November 10, 2008, DHL announced the plan to terminate its business relationship with ABX because it was exiting the United States domestic market. Previous plans had been to keep U.S. operations by contracting them out to UPS.^[3]

Fleet

The ABX Air fleet consists of the following aircraft as of August 2006:

Incidents and Accidents

An ABX jet damaged by fire at SFO in 2008

References

External links

• ABX Air

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