Atlantic Airlines (United Kingdom) (Coventry) and West Air Sweden (Gothenburg Landvetter) parent, West Atlantic AB, is to add three B767s to its freighter fleet this year as the group prepares to put its new fleet strategy into effect. In an interview with industry standard, Loadstar, West Atlantic director of sales and operations, Russell Ladkin, said his firm saw limited growth potential in small regional markets thus precipitating the move towards larger aircraft. “If you look at this sector in Europe, it’s quite a fragmented market well served by several regional players," he said. "Looking at the two main sectors of mail and express, the only growth we see is in express. The challenge, though, is that none of the integrators is adding new flight points to absorb small regional freighters; they add truck and train routes, but with volumes continuing to grow, they will need to increase the gauge of the aircraft on existing lanes over time. And we think that they will choose to outsource some of that,” he added. The move towards bigger aircraft was also made possible by West Atlantic's new 25% shareholder, Ohio based Air Transport Services Group, Inc., which has a "considerable" fleet of aircraft at its disposal. At present, West Atlantic's pool of aircraft consists of ATR72-200s, BAe ATPs, BAe ATP(F)s, CRJ(F)s, B737-300(F)s, and B737-400(F)s.