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Since the $8.8 million payment was withheld on November 5, 2007, ABX Air said that DHL has continued to reimburse it in full for budgeted expenses. Joe Hete, president and CEO of ABX Air, said, “We welcome this action by DHL, along with their recent acknowledgement of the high-quality ACMI and sorting services we continue to provide to them as their principal U.S. service provider. It is a positive step, one that demonstrates that our mutual interest in DHL’s success can be achieved only by working more closely together. We also appreciate that DHL has affirmed it will continue our relationship through the current terms of our commercial agreements, and its willingness to discuss a broad range of topics that could further benefit that relationship.” As further described in ABX Air’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 9, 2007, DHL is in default under terms of the ACMI and Hub Services agreements. The default resulted from an $8.8 million reduction in DHL’s weekly pre-funding payment to ABX Air on November 5, 2007, for ABX Air’s expenses related to the ACMI and Hub Services agreements. DHL cited as the reason for the reduction its contention that it was no longer responsible to reimburse ABX Air for certain overhead expenses. ABX Air notified DHL that it was in default under the commercial agreements because the agreements do not permit the withholding of amounts in dispute. ABX Air said that DHL remains in default under the ACMI and Hub Services agreements. DHL maintains that it has not defaulted and that its actions were proper. Conference Call ABX Air will host a conference call to review its financial results for the third quarter of 2007 today at 10:30 A.M. Eastern time. Participants should dial (866) 831-6224 and international participants should dial (617) 213-8853 ten minutes before the scheduled start of the call and ask for conference ID #47035810. The call will also be webcast live (listen-only mode) via www.abxair.com/ir and www.earnings.com for individual investors and via www.streetevents.com for institutional investors. A replay of the conference call will be available an hour after the conclusion of the call. It will be available by phone for five days after the call at (888) 286-8010 (international callers (617) 801-6888); use pass code ID #77444120. The webcast replay will remain available via www.abxair.com/ir and www.earnings.com for 30 days. |
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Except for historical information
contained herein, the matters discussed in this release contain
forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. ABX
Air, Inc.'s actual results may differ materially from the results
discussed in the forward-looking statements. There are a number of
important factors that could cause the Company's actual results to
differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking
statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, ABX Air’s
ability to maintain cost and service level performance under the
commercial agreements with DHL, reductions in the scope of services
under those agreements, uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome of
ABX Air’s disputes with DHL under the commercial agreements,
uncertainty of the effects the disputes with DHL may have on ABX
Air’s financial liquidity and other factors that are contained from
time to time in ABX Air's filings with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, including ABX's Annual Report on Form 10-K and
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers should carefully review this
release and should not place undue reliance on the Company's
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements were
based on information, plans and estimates as of the date of this
release. ABX undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statements to reflect changes in underlying assumptions or factors,
new information, future events or other changes. ###
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AIR ISSUES DEFAULT NOTICE TO DHL (11/9/07) ABX Air today said it considers its principal customer, DHL, tto be in default under terms of two agreements, and that ABX Air is reviewing its options while continuing to maintain full service to DHL and its customers. [more] |
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