• 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.