Southern Air
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| IATA code : | 9S |
| ICAO code : | SOO |
| Call sign : | SOUTHERN AIR |
| Founding: | 1999 |
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Florence (Kentucky) , United States
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| Home airport : | Cincinnati Airport |
| Company form: | Corporation |
| IATA prefix code : | 099 |
| Management: | Daniel McHugh ( CEO ) |
| Fleet size: | 20th |
| Aims: | international |
| Website: | www.southernair.com |
Southern Air is a US cargo airline headquartered in Florence, Kentucky and operating at Cincinnati Airport . Since the beginning of 2011, the company has been using its aircraft primarily for DHL , which has a logistics center at the airport .
history
Southern Air was on 10 March 1999 by the in Norwalk ( Connecticut resident) investment group Devon Partners formed after this that in February 1999 Air Operator Certificate (AOC) and the trademark of the year gone bankrupt Southern Air Transport had acquired (SAT). Investors included former employees of this company. The plans envisaged a quick resumption of flight operations using the AOC of Southern Air Transport to operate leased machines as part of ACMI rentals for other companies. However, the US Department of Transportation did not renew the old SAT operator's certificate, but only issued a new AOC to the company , which was then based at Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus (Ohio), in November 1999. At the same time, the first Boeing 747-200 cargo aircraft was leased from the leasing company Air Mobility Inc. , which had recently been founded by the same group of investors in Norwalk. This aircraft went into operation in November 1999, initially in a wet lease for Lufthansa Cargo . Depending another leased Boeing 747-200B (SF) took over Southern Air in August and September 2000. As a result of declines in orders due to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 requesting the company in the fall of 2001 is the first bankruptcy protection after the Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code and gave their three aircraft back to the lessor.
Flight operations were resumed in May 2002 with a Boeing 747-200 rented from Air Mobility Inc. As early as November 2002, the company again applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but this time was able to continue its contract flights. By early 2005, Southern Air , which had since moved its headquarters from Columbus back to Norwalk, put four more Boeing 747-200s into service. In the course of 2006, the company also took over four leased aircraft of this type, followed by two further leased Boeing 747-200s and one Boeing 747-300 in November 2007.
The holding company Oak Hill Capital Partners , which among other things was the owner of the cargo airline Cargo 360 , acquired a majority stake in Southern Air in 2007 and merged the two airlines with one another at the beginning of 2008. Here went Cargo 360 , which had only one Boeing 747-200 and a Boeing 747-300, in their new sister company to. After the merger, Southern Air's fleet consisted of eleven Boeing 747-200s and two Boeing 747-300s. The oldest aircraft were then temporarily parked or retired.
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In the spring of 2009, a total of 23 Boeing 747s were registered with Southern Air , but only 14 of them were in service. The company had stored the other nine machines permanently due to excess capacities. In February and March 2010, the company received its first two leased Boeing 777FHT cargo planes , which were operated for Thai Airways International until December 2010 . Both machines were then used in ACMI leasing for DHL on their route from Hong Kong via Cincinnati to Bahrain . After taking over three more Boeing 777Fs, from March 27, 2012 , Southern Air also operated a global connection for DHL from Hong Kong, which went via Los Angeles and Leipzig .
On September 28, 2012, Southern Air , whose debt amounted to US $ 285 million at the time, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection again. After a corporate reorganization, during which the last Boeing 747s were retired, the company was granted this status on Left April 15, 2013. At the same time, it moved its headquarters to Florence (Kentucky) and the operational base to Cincinnati Airport . Since spring 2014, the company has also been using Boeing 737-400s in freight transport for DHL. The Southern Air Holdings bought in the spring of 2015, in Miami -based Florida West International Airways on which remained as a subsidiary. A division of tasks within the group was planned, with Florida West taking over the ACMI leasing division and Southern Air continuing the contract flights for DHL.
In January 2016, Atlas Air Worldwide , owner of the cargo airline Atlas Air , announced the acquisition of Southern Air Holdings and its subsidiaries for USD 110 million. The acquisition was completed on April 7, 2016. The holding company Atlas Air Worldwide announced in June 2016 that Southern Air and Florida West would be merged with the airline Atlas Air . Florida West was the first to merge with this company in March 2017 and its operating certificate was canceled. Southern Air is currently (as of August 2017) still operating with its own AOC and its own branding.
fleet
Current fleet
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As of April 2020, the Southern Air fleet consists of 20 cargo aircraft with an average age of 15.2 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Average age
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| Boeing 737-400F | 6th | 25.2 years | ||
| Boeing 737-800BCF | 5 | for Amazon Prime Air operated | 17.4 years | |
| Boeing 777F | 9 | one inactive | 7.2 years | |
| total | 20th | 15.2 years |
Former aircraft types
Previously, Southern Air also used the following types of aircraft:
In addition, from March 2006 a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 was registered in the passenger configuration on the company, which Southern Air, however, never actively used. The aircraft was permanently stored in Marana immediately after its takeover .
See also
Web links
- Website of the Southern Air (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ southernair.com - Locations , accessed on August 7, 2013
- ↑ John Wensveen: Air Transportation, A Management Perspective: Engineering, Engineering; 6th edition . Cram101 Textbook, 2014, ISBN 1-4672-3058-8 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ a b c d e Airwaysmag.com: Best of Airways - Southern Air Transport: An Uncommon Carrier , accessed August 9, 2017
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2001/2002
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2002/03
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2003/04
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2004/05
- ↑ a b JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2008/09
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2009/2010
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2010/11
- ↑ Airliners.de, DHL starts new freight line to Leipzig, March 26, 2012 , accessed on August 11, 2017
- ^ Air Transport World, Southern Air emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, April 16, 2013 , accessed August 11, 2017
- ↑ Rzjets.com, active fleet and former aircraft of the Southern Air (in English), accessed on August 12, 2017
- ↑ Businesswire.com, Southern Air Holdings, Inc.'s Subsidiary Worldwide Air Logistics Group will acquire second airline to diversify and expand service , accessed August 12, 2017
- ↑ Aircargo News, Atlas Air Worldwide completes Southern Air acquisition, April 7, 2016 (in English), accessed August 12, 2017
- ↑ Atlas Air Worldwide, Atlas Air Worldwide acquires Southern Air, April 7, 2016 (in English), accessed August 12, 2017
- ↑ Ch-Aviation, AAWH to merge into Southern Air Atlas Air, eyes single AOC, June 21, 2016 (in English), accessed on August 12, 2017
- ↑ Ch-Aviation, Florida West Int'l Airways formally shut down, March 29, 2017 (in English), accessed August 12, 2017
- ^ A b c Southern Air Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 22, 2020, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various annual issues
- ↑ Rzjets.net, listing of the Boeing 747s operated by Southern Air , accessed on August 11, 2017
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