Capital Cargo closing its doors. all Terminated

[polarjet205]

Wow, just read where Cappy merged with ATI and everyone in Orlando and the Pilots are done.. notice given door locked in Feb or Mar..

Just a bad deal for everyone, sorry guys. good luck

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-capital-cargo-layoffs-20121217,0,2502001.story

 

[Airbus300]

Another article:

Capital Cargo International Airlines Inc., a cargo carrier based at Orlando International Airport, is shutting down its operation and laying off its 79 employees, according to a notice filed with the state Department of Economic Opportunity.
Capital Cargo is merging with Little Rock, Ark.-based Air Transport International Inc. and expects to shut down its Orlando operations by Jan. 31.
The layoffs will be permanent for the 40 non-unionized employees and temporary for the 39 employees represented by the Air Line Pilots Association International. The layoff of the flight crew employees is expected to last about six months.
Air Transport international is assisting employees in finding other jobs.

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2012/12/14/capital-cargo-closing-orlando-operations.html

 

[b707guy]

Wow, don't know where to begin with that one. The Orlando Sentinel article is so incomplete and sensationalistic, it looks like it was written by someone who has a close family member working for CCIA, and who sees nothing beyond that. Makes ATI look like the bad guy.

ATI is not a competitor, but a sister company under the same umbrella. As has been the case since 2005 when CHI, then Cappy's parent, bought ATI, and again when ATSG bought CHI a few years later. And for even more muddy waters, at the same time as CCIA receives the bum's rush from MCO, ATI is being similarly dismantled as its operations and management (such as it is...) in LIT is being slowly shuttered and moved/integrated with what is left of ABX Air, all under ATSG, in Wilmington OH.

So even if CCIA's certificate was the survivor in this merger between CCIA and ATI, it would receiving the same treatment. Union and non-union members are losing jobs from both companies. And the merger isn't anywhere near completion.

Not trying to defend ATI so much as to direct the attention to the real string-pullers: ATSG.