is a
Cargo Airline based in
Wilmington ,
Ohio ,
USA . It operates overnight express small package services and freight in the USA,
Canada and
Puerto Rico . Its main base is Wilmington Airpark, the former Clinton County Air Force Base, located just southeast of Wilmington, Ohio, and owned by
DHL .
ABX Air's main customer is
DHL , and the vast majority of the freight it carries is for them. Most of ABX Air's planes are painted with DHL's yellow and red livery.
ABX Air offers shipping solutions, charter services, specialty training, parts sales, and aircraft maintenance services from a privately owned 2,000 acre (8 km²) airport that includes over 120 acres (0.5 km²) of paved ramp area, three aircraft maintenance hangars, two runways, and 1.24 million square feet (115,000 m²) of usable space in the sorting facility. More than 7,000 employees sort and move over 6 million pounds (3,000 t) of freight to over 130 destinations throughout the United States.
The airline was established in 1980 when Airborne Freight acquired Midwest Air Charter. It started operations on
17 April 1980 . Airborne Express, as the airline was initially named, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airborne Freight of
Seattle . ABX became a public company in
August 16 2003 as part of the merger of
DHL and Airborne, in which DHL kept Airborne's ground operations and spun off its air operations as ABX. It employs 10,000 staff (at September 2005). ABX Air's common shares are traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the ticker symbol ABXA.
ABX Air operates the following services (at January 2005):
- Domestic freight destinations: Abilene , Albany , Albany , Albuquerque , Allentown / Bethlehem / Easton , Alpena , Anchorage , Appleton , Arcata / Eureka , Atlanta , Austin , Bakersfield , Baltimore , Bangor , Billings , Birmingham , Bismarck , Bloomington , Boise , Boston , Bozeman , Brainerd , Buffalo , Burlington , Carlsbad , Casper , Cedar Rapids , Charlotte , Charlottesville , Chattanooga , Chicago , Chico , Cleveland , Colorado Springs , Columbia , Dallas / Fort Worth , Del Rio , Denver , Des Moines , Detroit , Dodge City , Duluth / Superior , El Paso , Eugene , Fargo , Flint , Fort Lauderdale , Fort Myers , Fresno , Grand Canyon , Grand Island , Grand Junction , Grand Rapids , Great Falls , Greensboro , Greenville , Harlingen , Harrisburg , Hartford , Helena , Houston , Huntsville , Idaho Falls , Iron Mountain , Jackson , Jacksonville , Kalispell , Kansas City , Key West , Knoxville , Lake Charles , Lake Havasu City , Las Vegas , Lewiston / Auburn , Little Rock , Long Beach , Los Angeles , Lubbock , Lynchburg , Madison , Manchester , Marion , Medford , Memphis , Miami , Midland / Odessa , Milwaukee , Minneapolis / St. Paul , Minot , Missoula , Moline , Moses Lake , Myrtle Beach , Nashville , New Bern , New Orleans , New York , Newburgh , Norfolk , North Platte , Oakland , Oklahoma City , Omaha , Ontario , Orlando , Panama City , Pensacola , Philadelphia , Phoenix , Pierre , Pittsburgh , Pocatello , Portland , Presque Isle , Providence , Raleigh / Durham , Rapid City , Redding , Redmond , Reno , Richfield , Richmond , Rifle , Roanoke , Rochester , Rock Springs , Rockford , Roswell , Sacramento , Saginaw , Salt Lake City , San Angelo , San Antonio , San Diego , San Francisco , San José , Santa Barbara , Santa Maria , Sault Ste. Marie , Savannah, Scottsbluff , Seattle , Shreveport , Sioux Falls , South Bend , Spokane , Springfield , St George , St Louis , St Petersburg , Steamboat Springs , Syracuse , Tallahassee , Traverse City , Tucson , Tulsa , Twin Falls , Ukiah , Visalia , Waco , Washington , Wausau , Wenatchee , Wichita , Wilmington and Yuma .
Charter services are available for both domestic and international flights using
Douglas DC-8-63F and
Boeing 767-SF aircraft. Charter customers include the
United States Government,
United States 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 .
The ABX Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2005):
