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Article: Air Transport flies over business hurdles.(Transportation & Shipping)
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- Arkansas Business
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- June 12, 2006
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THERE WAS NO APOCAlypse on 6-6-06, as some predicted, though the end of days would probably have been good business for Air Transport International LLC of Little Rock.
"We say if there's famine, wars, earthquakes, we make money," said James Hobson, president and CEO of the charter airline.
The company, which operates 18 airplanes from more than a dozen locations around the world, shipped relief supplies during Hurricane Katrina and during recent earthquakes in Southeast Asia.
Air Transport also has found some extra work because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, though not nearly as much as some contractors.
And in late 2002, when ...