News / Atlas Air orders four new 777Fs – and 'we do have enough pilots'

Atlas Air has ordered four 777 freighters, one to join the fleet in November and the other three arriving during through 2023 – and this year, it will receive the last four 747-8Fs to be made.

The carrier has money to spend, after record third-quarter revenues of more than $1bn and net income of $119.5m. In its November earnings call, management said it was considering M&A activity – as now-wealthy shipping lines and forwarders are doing – “both in our immediate ...