Air Transport International
A Boeing 757 of Air Transport International | |||||||
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| Founded | 1981 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 1988 (under former Interstate ownership) | ||||||
| AOC # | IXXA394N | ||||||
| Hubs | Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 49 | ||||||
| Parent company | Air Transport Services Group | ||||||
| Headquarters | Wilmington, Ohio, United States | ||||||
| Key people | Mike Betson (President) | ||||||
| Website | www | ||||||
Air Transport International, Inc. (ATI) is an airline based in Wilmington, Ohio, United States. It operates worldwide cargo and passenger charter service for the express package industry (notably, Amazon) and freight forwarders, as well as for the United States Department of Defense. It also wet-leases aircraft. Its main base is Wilmington. It is part of the Air Transport Services Group (ATSG).
ATI's origins are complex. It is often (including on its own website) identified with Interstate Airlines, a 1980s cargo airline, but while there was a connection there was no corporate continuity. Interstate liquidated in the late 1980s after a severe business reverse and its owner bought ATI, a separate carrier, and operated it from former Interstate facilities with former Interstate aircraft. In 1994, ATI merged with another cargo airline, International Cargo Xpress dba International Charter Xpress (ICX). ATI then went through 1998 Chapter 11 bankruptcy and changed owners at least thrice, including once-prominent air freight company BAX Global and since 2007, ATSG. In 2013, ATSG merged a sister airline, Capital Cargo International Airlines, into ATI.