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ATR announced today that FedEx Express, the world’s largest express transportation company, and ATR signed a contract for the firm purchase of 30 ATR 72-600s plus 20 options. These aircraft will be the first new ATRs to be directly delivered from the factory in a...

A report in the Seattle Times broke the story yesterday that Amazon is looking at acquiring 20 Boeing 767-300ER freighters to avoid problems with unmet deliveries during peak seasons.  Amazon has been experimenting with its own delivery service, which was described by...

As fuel costs have come down we have seen the US airline industry report record profits.  But how is the impact playing out?  We created the following chart to illustrate this using the Boeing 737-700 and a few airlines as an example. There are numerous inputs...

Largely absent from industry news of late are two major US airlines that transport a lot freight, quietly and efficiently.  Since much of their traffic occurs at night, people tend to overlook these companies.  Yet these two operators, FedEx and UPS, are huge.  In...