Aircraft leasing: ATSGs leasing subsidiary, Cargo Aircraft Management, Inc.
(“CAM”) leases cargo aircraft to ATSGs airlines and to external
customers. CAM services global demand for medium range and medium capacity airlift
by offering Boeing 767 and 757 aircraft leases. CAM is able to provide competitive
lease rates by monitoring the related passenger aircraft sale markets, acquiring
passenger aircraft based on projected into-service costs and rate of return
targets, then managing the modification of passenger aircraft into freighters.
As a result, the converted freighters can be deployed into regional markets
more economically than larger capacity aircraft or competing alternatives. CAMs
aircraft leases are typically under multi-year agreements.
The Company has two reportable segments, “ACMI Services" and "CAM."
Due to the similarities among the Companys airline operations, they are aggregated
into a single reportable segment - ACMI Services. The Company’s other
business operations, including aircraft maintenance and modification services,
aircraft part sales, equipment leasing and maintenance and mail handling for
the USPS do not constitute reportable segments due to their size.
ACMI services: ATSG wholly owns two airlines, ABX Air, Inc. (“ABX”)
and Air Transport International, Inc. (“ATI”), each independently
certificated by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Companys airlines
contract directly with customers to supply a combination of aircraft, crews,
maintenance and insurance services, commonly referred to as ACMI services. ABX
operates Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, while ATI operates Boeing 767 and Boeing
757 freighter and 757 "combi" aircraft. Combi aircraft are capable
of carrying passengers and cargo containers on the main flight deck. The airlines
can conduct cargo operations worldwide.
Support services: Customers who lease our aircraft typically need related services,
such as scheduled aircraft maintenance, aircraft line maintenance, crew training
and other transportation related solutions which our subsidiaries can provide.
The support services we provide to freight forwarders and other airlines provide
us with a competitive advantage for diversification and incremental revenues.
Our businesses and subsidiaries providing support services are summarized below.
ABX provides flight crew training, flight simulator rental and aircraft line
maintenance services;
Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services, Inc. (“AMES”) is
an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul business;
AMES Material Services, Inc. ("AMS") resells and brokers aircraft
parts;
LGSTX Services, Inc. (“LGSTX”) provides material handling and ground
equipment maintenance and ground equipment rentals for aircraft support;
LGSTX Distribution Services, Inc. ("LDS") operates mail sorting centers
for the U.S Postal Service ("USPS");
Global Flight Source, Inc. ("GFS") provides aircraft dispatch and
flight tracking services.
Airborne Global Solutions, Inc. ("AGS") is our subsidiary that assists
our businesses in achieving their sales and marketing plans. AGS leverages the
entire portfolio of the Companys subsidiaries capabilities to develop bundled,
turn-key cargo airline solutions that are flexible, customized and built on
our experience in global cargo airline operations. AGS provides sales leads
to our subsidiaries by identifying customers business and operational requirements.
ATSG is incorporated in Delaware and its headquarters is in Wilmington, Ohio.
ATSGs common shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the
symbol ATSG. ATSG was formed on December 31, 2007, from the reorganization of
ABX for the purpose of creating a holding company structure. ABX was incorporated
in 1980. Between 1980 and August 2003, ABX was an affiliate of Airborne, Inc.
(“Airborne”), a publicly traded, integrated delivery service provider.
On August 15, 2003, ABX was separated from Airborne and became an independent
publicly traded company, in conjunction with the acquisition of Airborne by
an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of DHL Worldwide Express, B.V. In 2004,
we established LDS to provide mail sorting services to the USPS. The Company
acquired CAM, ATI and Capital Cargo International Airlines, Inc. ("CCIA")
on December 31, 2007. ATI began operations in 1979 and was an affiliate of BAX
Global, Inc. (“BAX/Schenker”) prior to 2006. In 2009, the aircraft
maintenance operations of ABX, including a hangar facility in Wilmington, were
spun-out into AMES, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. Similarly, in
2010, the material handling and aviation ground support operations of ABX were
spun-out into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, now known as LGSTX.
During 2013, we merged CCIA into ATI, with ATI as the surviving entity.
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