News / Atlas looks to new game station launches to jump start air freight's peak season

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Atlas Air is betting on a real peak season for the second half, it told analysts in its second-quarter earnings call. Not only does it believe that the number of shipments will be considerably higher than last year, but that the goods themselves will be larger.

Bill Flynn, CEO and president of Atlas, told analysts yesterday: “Several major products, particularly the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, in our view, should drive fairly significant demand for schedule capacity, as well as into ...