Fast Facts about ABX Air, Inc.

Fast Facts about ABX Air, Inc.

ABX employs over 8,000 people and is the largest employer in a several county area in southwestern Ohio.
The total system capacity for ABX Air's fleet is 4,028,000 pounds, including regional hub connections.
Each night of operation more than 240 aircraft arrive/depart at Wilmington. In 2004, ABX aircraft—not counting charters—flew over 42.9 million miles using 150.7 million gallons of fuel.
Charter services are available for both domestic and international flights using DC-8-63F and B767-SF aircraft. Charter customers include the U.S. Government, U.S. Postal Service, and many Fortune 500 companies. ABX Charters has operated ad-hoc and scheduled flights into Alaska, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, 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.
- The Administration Department includes Executive Offices, Accounting, Airport Planning/Property, Environmental/Safety, Human Resources, Information Systems, Material Sales, Office Services, Purchasing, and System Control. The Department is responsible for scheduling the aircraft, contingency planning, and line haul operations though the System Control department. In March 2005, ABX planned 48,893 truck movements. This is comparable with the 4th quarter 2004 volume and exceeds the December 2003 volume by 10,000 moves. In March 2005, the Operations Analysis department entered nearly 7,000 load plans for trucks and aircraft departing ILH/ILN. The Administration Department maintains over 30 acres of storm water treatment facilities that process an average of 0.5 million gallons of storm water runoff per day and is capable of processing a maximum of 1.25 million gallons per day.
- Air Park Services maintains over 2,200 acres (250 of which are paved), 50 buildings and facilities on and remote to the airport, over 5,800 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; and recycles an average of 500,000 pounds of paper, cardboard, and metal each month.
- The Flight Department schedules, trains, and supervises more than 730 Flight Crew Members with the capability to fly both domestically and internationally. ABX holds a certificate as a Part 142 Flight School, employing a full training staff to accomplish all flight and ground training for ABX crews and those of other certified air carriers. Training facilities include five classrooms and four simulators: a Boeing 767-200, a DC-8, and two DC-9s. The Flight Department staffs and equips a full Dispatch office to help ensure the safe operation of all flights, and it staffs an operational control tower to oversee the safe arrival and departure of approximately 200 aircraft each night of operation.
- Over 5,000 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 2004 was 948,446 pieces, of which 56.72 percent were Express Packs. An average of 2.89 million pounds of shipments were sorted in Wilmington each weeknight in 2004. Eighteen Regional Hubs sort approximately 43,719,539 pounds each week and 186,136,566 each month.
- Logistics Services is a third-party contract logistics operation staffed by approximately 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. The Commerce Park in Wilmington is the only full-service business park in the world at a major cargo hub operated by an air carrier. 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 and 3PL clients. Satellite Commerce Park locations include Grove City (Rickenbacker in Columbus) and Xenia, Ohio. All have space for hub-based distributors and logistics operations and total over 2.6 million square feet of operation space.
- Maintenance & Engineering maintains an operating fleet of 28 Boeing 767s, 15 DC-8s, and 72 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 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.