Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings

Not to be confused with AtlasGlobal, Atlas World Group, or AIR Worldwide.

This article is about the cargo airline. For Massive Attack song, see Heligoland (album). For other air topics, see Atlas (disambiguation).

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. is an airline holding company based in Purchase, New York. The group owns Atlas Air, Polar Air Cargo, and has a freighter aircraft leasing joint venture with Bain Capital: Titan Aircraft Investments. The company was named after Atlas, a figure in Greek mythology, who carries the sky on his shoulders.

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc.

Company type	Private
Traded as	Nasdaq: AAWW
Founded	2001; 24 years ago (2001)[1]
Headquarters	Purchase, New York , United States
Key people	Michael Steen (CEO) Richard Rolland (COO) Artem Gonopolskiy (CFO)
Revenue	US$4.03 billion (2021)
Operating income	US$7.11 billion (2021)
Net income	US$493.3 million (2021)
Total assets	US$6.44 billion (2021)
Total equity	US$2.81 billion (2021)
Owner	Apollo Global Management
Number of employees	4,056 (2021)
Subsidiaries	Atlas Air Polar Air Cargo Titan Aircraft Investments
Website	atlasairworldwide.com

The company was listed on Nasdaq until 2023 when it was taken private by a group of investors led by Apollo Global Management.^[2][3]

Operations

An Atlas Air Boeing 747-8F lines up on Runway 27 at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport as one of the airline's 747-400Fs lands on Runway 18C.

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings owns Atlas Air, Polar Air Cargo, and Titan Aircraft Investments. The company headquarters are in Purchase, New York.

Atlas Air operates flights on an ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance), CMI and air charter basis for airlines, express operators, freight forwarders, charter brokers, global shippers and the U.S. Military, along with dry-leasing freighter aircraft. Atlas Air has global operations established in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America.^[4]

Titan Aircraft Investments is an aircraft dry-leasing company. Titan owns 29 aircraft in its dry-leasing fleet. The dry-leasing fleet consists of seven Boeing 777 freighters, twenty-one Boeing 767 freighters (leased to parent Atlas Air), and one Boeing 737-300 freighter.^[4]

Fleet

As of December 2021^[update], Atlas Air operates the following aircraft:^[4]

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Passengers					Notes
			F	C	Y+	Y	Total
Passenger Fleet
Boeing 747-400	5	—	10	143	—	36	189	Used for VIP Service
			12	52	70	240	374	Used for VIP Service
			—	23	—	505	528
Boeing 767-300ER	5	—	—	30	—	218	248
Cargo Fleet
Boeing 737-300F	1	—	Cargo					Leased out by Titan Aircraft Investments.
Boeing 737-800F	8	—	Cargo					Aircraft provided by Amazon Air, operated by Atlas.
Boeing 747-400F	30	—	Cargo
	5	—						Aircraft owned by Nippon Cargo Airlines, operated by Atlas.[5]
Boeing 747-400LCF	4	—	Cargo					Aircraft owned by Boeing, operated by Atlas.
Boeing 747-8F	9	3	Cargo					Including the last production Boeing 747-8, under registration N863GT, delivered on Feb. 1, 2023 under flight Atlas Air flight Giant 747 (5Y747/GTI747)[6][7]
	2	—						Operating for Qantas Freight.[8]
Boeing 767-300ERF	3	—	Cargo
	21	—						Aircraft owned by Titan Aircraft Investments, operated by Atlas.
	2	—						Aircraft provided by DHL, operated by Atlas.
Boeing 777-200LRF	1	4	Cargo
	7	—						Aircraft owned by Titan Aircraft Investments, operated by Atlas.
	6	—						Aircraft provided by DHL, operated by Atlas.
Total	109	7