Gemini Air Cargo

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Gemini Air Cargo
IATA GR	ICAO GCO	Callsign GEMINI
Founded		1995
Hubs		Miami International Airport John F. Kennedy International Airport
Fleet size		49
Destinations		US and Europe
Headquarters		Dulles, Virginia, USA
Key people		Sam Woodward - Chairman, President, & C.E.O. Ahmad R. Zamany - Senior Vice President, C.O.O.
Website: http://www.geminiaircargo.com/

Gemini Air Cargo is an American ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, & Insurance) cargo airline headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, USA. It operates worldwide cargo schedules and charters on a wet-lease basis. Its main bases are Miami International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York.^[1] Flight crew, of which there are approximately 200 are "Home Based" and as such can live anywhere with in 3 hours of an airport. Flight crew will usually go on a 2 week on 2 week off schedule.

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

Gemini Air Cargo MD-11

The airline was established in December 1995 and started operations on 24 October 1996. It began operations as a freight forwarder, wet-leasing three aircraft from Sun Country Airlines for its first year until it was granted certification for its own aircraft in October 1996. In July 1999 the airline was acquired by William Carlyle. It was owned by the Carlyle Group (56%), Lehmen Brothers (36%), management (5%) and Oak Tree Capital (3%).^[1] Today, it is mainly owned by Bayside Capital Investments and has 412 employees (at January 2005). The Airline emerged from bankruptcy reorganization in a debt restructuring involving a DIP (debtor in position) and exchange of debt for equity with Bayside Capital in August 2006. Bayside has pledged to grow Gemini and take advantage of the fast growing cargo market into the next two decades.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Destinations

Gemini Air Cargo operates the following freight services (at December 2007):^{[citation needed]}

Domestic scheduled destinations: Anchorage, Miami and New York.

International scheduled destinations: Amsterdam, Accra, Brussels, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Ostend, Riyadh, Shanghai and Lagos.

[edit] Fleet

The Gemini Air Cargo fleet, which is exclusively a "Heavy" aircraft fleet, includes the following aircraft (at December 2007):

**Gemini Air Cargo Fleet**
Aircraft	Total	Notes
McDonnell Douglas MD-11F	4
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30F	7	^[2]

It is reported that they are actively seeking to add to their fleet of MD-11's.
One DC-10 is now being used as a spare and plans are being laid to retire 3 DC-10's in 2007.