So they are taking a tanker aircraft out of service just before fire season starts because it doesn’t produce a profit. What about AMTRACK? USPS?
And how is an aircraft going to help with covid?
So they are taking a tanker aircraft out of service just before fire season starts because it doesn’t produce a profit. What about AMTRACK? USPS?
From the article:
After investing tens of millions into upgrading the Global SuperTanker and its technology, the revenue coming mostly from contracts with the U.S. government and California did not produce enough profit for the company to continue the funding the tanker, said Roger Miller, managing director at Alterna Capital Partners LLC, the investment company that owns the plane.
AMTRAK and USPS are not privately owned, like this aircraft is.
from the article, superficial info:
” the Connecticut-based firm has received several offers to buy the SuperTanker and turn it into a freight carrier aircraft, Miller said.
“The COVID crisis has led to a huge boom in the aircraft freighter market flying around PPE, flying around vaccines...”