DHL 757s?

[Palmtree Pilot]

Can someone please tell me who operates the 57s in Europe under the DHL banner? Also just need a breif lesson on the whole DHL, ABX and Airborne thing. ASTAR and Polar are one (correct?), and are there any others that are associated with any of these?

Thanks for you time and knowledge in advance.

VR

 

[Mr Zog]

Ummmm. Yeah. That would be DHL.

 

[b747dogg]

They own them and lease to those to the other one.

 

[uba757]

Polar is part of Atlas.

 

[Singlecoil]

757's are run by DHL International, which was a separate company to the old U.S. company, DHL Airways, Inc. DHL Airways, INC was bought by DeutshePost, the German Post office, a couple years ago. They then split the company into several different entities, since a U.S. Airline cannot be foreign owned. The airline portion, and employees who loaded planes, were split into Astar Air Cargo, under the control of one of DHL Airways' largest American shareholders. Van drivers were spun into a different company, and sales and service folks were spun into yet another company.

Then DeutshePost bought Airborne, and alone with it, ABX Air. They then fired all the DHL van drivers because the Airborne ones were teamsters, and the DHL ones were not. The teamsters had some good language in that contract apparently. All the Airborne vans were painted with DHL colors and Airborne basically was folded into DHL. So now, there are two U.S. Airlines hauling DHL material, ABX and Astar. They are being whipsawed against each other, from what I hear, in classic union-busting fashion by the Germans.

 

[Palmtree Pilot]

Singlecoil,

thanks for the lagit answer. Kind of confusing anymore. Don't know if any of these cargo outfits are hiring, but who do you apply for to fly the DHL banner? Do any of these outfits (ABX, DHL, AStar, etc.) hire for any Domiciles in Europe? Again thanks for the info and if anybody else has something to add, please feel free.

VR