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• ABX employs over 7,500 people and is the largest employer in a
several county area in southwestern Ohio.
• The total system capacity for ABX Air's fleet is 3,964,500 pounds,
including regional hub connections.
• Each night of operation more than 240 aircraft arrive/depart at
Wilmington. In 2003, ABX aircraft—not counting charters—flew
over 41 million miles using 150.7 million gallons of fuel.
• Charter services are available for both domestic and international
flights using DC-8s. Charter customers include U.S. Postal Service and
many Fortune 500 companies. ABX has operated charters into Alaska, Barbados,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Hawaii, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands
Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Peru, Surinam, Toronto, Trinidad,
Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands. Visit the ABX Air Charter Service web
site or call 1-800-FR8-FLYT for a quote.
• The headquarters of ABX Air are located at 145 Hunter Drive, Wilmington,
Ohio, at the site of the former Clinton County Air Force Base. The Air
Park includes a 10,700-foot runway with a 1,000-foot overrun at one end
and a 200-foot overrun at the other end. A second parallel runway is 9,000
feet long with a 200-foot overrun at each end. Parking gates for about
120 aircraft are available.
• The company has six major departments, which oversee the airline’s
operations: Administration, Logistics Services, Air Park Services, Flight,
Ground, and Maintenance & Engineering.
º The Administration
Department includes Executive Offices, Accounting, Airport Planning/Properties
and Environmental Compliance, Human Resources, Information Systems,
Material Sales, Office Services, and Purchasing. The Department is responsible
for scheduling the aircraft, contingency planning, and line haul operations
though the System Control Department. It completes nearly 3,000 aircraft
load plans and over 5,600 truck load plans monthly for loads departing
ILN, and it manages over 30,000 truck movements system-wide on a monthly
basis.
º Air Park Services maintains over 2,200 acres (250 of which are paved),
50 buildings and facilities on and remote to the airport, over 5,470
pieces of Ground Support Equipment, navigational aids and lighting for
the runways and non-aircraft radio equipment. The Department pumps approximately
6 million gallons of aircraft fuel each month; provides security and
fire protection; maintains clean environment of buildings, offices and
grounds, including over 1.75 million square feet of building and office
space; maintains material handling equipment inside sort buildings;
performs repairs on 19,000 C-Containers, 11,300 Boeing 767 containers,
88 A-containers, and 9,100 truck containers; maintains over 30 acres
of storm water treatment facilities capable of processing 1.25 million
gallons of storm water runoff per day; and recycles an average of 500,000
pounds of paper, cardboard, and metal each month.
º The Flight Department schedules, trains, and supervises more than
730 Flight Crew Members. Training facilities include four simulators:
a Boeing 767 simulator, a DC-8 simulator, and two DC-9 simulators. Seventeen
of the 41 Flight Control Dispatchers are also certified by the FAA to
amend National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts for airports where ABX
Air operates. Ten Dispatchers are qualified storm spotters for the NWS.
They provide real-time weather observations to help the NWS during times
of severe weather. Eight Flight Control Dispatchers are certified as
Control Tower Operators.
º Over 3,800 employees work in the Ground Department, most working between
midnight and 5 a.m. ABX’s package-sorting facility, which includes
all sort buildings in Wilmington, has approximately 625,000 square feet
under roof, with about 1.24 million square feet of usable sorting floor
space, and contains over 15.5 miles of conveyors. The total Sort Center
capacity is nearly 1.2 million packages per night. The average nightly
package count in 2003 was 928,829 pieces, of which 57.9 percent were
Express Packs. An average of 2.98 million pounds of shipments were sorted
in Wilmington each weeknight in 2003. Eleven Regional Hubs sort approximately
25.3 million pounds each week.
º Logistics Services is a third-party contract logistics operation staffed
by over 350 personnel. Rapid-response and full service warehousing,
fulfillment, and distribution services are provided 24 hours a day,
365 days a year. The main building of 300,000 square feet is an activated
Foreign Trade Zone. Total warehouse/office space in the Commerce Park
is 1.6 million square feet. Logistics Services provides pickup, delivery,
customer service and other functions for Hub-based distributors. Four
satellite Commerce Parks are located in other Ohio locations: Grove
City, Groveport, Lockbourne, Xenia. All have space for Hub-based distributors
and Logistics operations and total over 2.6 million square feet of operation
space.
º Maintenance & Engineering maintains an operating fleet of twenty-four
Boeing 767s, eighteen DC-8s, and seventy-four DC-9s. Approximately 1,600
of ABX Air’s employees work in the Maintenance & Engineering
department on a combination of shifts to provide nearly 24-hour coverage.
ABX Air is an FAA-certified repair station, enabling it to provide contract
maintenance for other airlines. Within the three-hangar, 210,000-square-foot
complex, technicians overhaul and modify newly-acquired aircraft, perform
routine inspections and repairs, and schedule base and line maintenance.
The hangars also house several shop areas and offices for support of
the aircraft. An additional 100,000-square-foot Base Shops facility
provides extensive component repair capabilities. All ABX Aircraft meet
or exceed Stage III noise level requirements.
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