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| | The Motley Fool: The Boring Portfolio - 03/05/97 - Boring Buys Atlas Air, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATLS) |
 | | Atlas Air is a U.S. certificated air carrier that operates a fleet of 747-200 freighters under long-term contracts with commercial air carriers, including British Airways, China Airlines, Cargolux, Emirates, FastAir, Thai International Airways, KLM, LAS, Lufthansa, SAS and Varig, serving 62 cities in 38 countries. |
 | | Atlas experienced higher than anticipated costs associated with readying for service the planes acquired from FedEx, because the planes use different engines from those on the rest of Atlas Air's fleet and the aircraft had not been maintained up to the company's standards. |
 | | Purchasing Atlas Air stock runs directly counter to both of those trends: the company is still relatively small and unknown, and the stock was weak during the fourth quarter of last year and got clobbered a few weeks ago. |
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