Global Supply Systems (GSS) was a British

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based at

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. It provided dedicated freighters to airlines on a

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basis. The company held a

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Type A Operating Licence, it was permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.

History

British Airways World Cargo 747-8 G-GSSE

The company changed its name to Global Supply Systems Limited on 31 January 2001, and started operations on 29 June 2002. It began flying operations for

British Airways World Cargo British Airways World Cargo, formerly British Airways Cargo, was a division of IAG Cargo, operating air cargo services under the British Airways brand. It was the twelfth-largest cargo airline in the world by total freight tonne-kilometres flow ...

between London Stansted,

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and

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using a Boeing 747-400 freighter on

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from partner

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. The company was founded by Atlas Air and John Robert Porter and was majority British-owned (51%), with Atlas Air as minority shareholder (49%). In January 2014, British Airways World Cargo as the airline's main customer terminated its contract with Global Supply Systems, effective from 30 April. GSS was unable to find a new customer and ceased operations later that year. The company continued to dry-lease two Boeing 777F aircraft to an international cargo airline.

Fleet

Global Supply Systems had operated three

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which were later replaced by three

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.All three GSS 748F in BA livery
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