Extra lift

The brainchild of Michael Chowdry, a former aircraft lessor, three-year-old Atlas operates under a unique and, so far, highly successful scheme. The company buys older Boeing 747-200s; converts them into freighters, if necessary, and then leases them out to mostly non-US airlines that find their low operating costs highly desirable. ...

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