WILMINGTON — Air Transport Services Group, Inc. reported consolidated financial results for the quarter ended March 31.

Customer revenues were $348.2 million, up $145.1 million, or 71 percent.

Omni Air International, acquired in November 2018, contributed $135.8 million to external ATSG revenues, reflected in revenues of the ACMI Services segment.

Capital expenditures in the first quarter of 2019 included $70.5 million for the purchase of four Boeing 767 aircraft and for freighter modification costs.

Joe Hete, President and Chief Executive Officer of ATSG, said that first quarter revenues and earnings benefited from additional flying for the Department of Defense and other customers, and from the deployment of freighter aircraft to lease customers during 2018.

Those results, he said, provide a solid basis for continued growth in 2019 as additional Boeing 767 aircraft are converted to freighters and deployed to customers in the second half. Accordingly, ATSG is raising its Adjusted EBITDA guidance for 2019 to $450 million.

“Our acquisition of Omni Air, and recent agreements with our largest commercial customers, Amazon and DHL, add years of contracted revenue streams from aircraft leasing and from operations by our airlines and related service businesses,” Hete said. “Our customers are focused on transport options that offer optimal combinations of reliability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, with a particular emphasis on speed.

“In response, we continue to add aircraft options, including the Boeing 777 via Omni, and a converted freighter variant of the Airbus A321-200 aircraft we are developing through our joint venture with Precision.”

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