Kenya Airways eyes bigger freighters to cope with demand
A booming African market is sending Kenya Airways to get out its orderbook to acquire ...
Air Canada (AC) was the first airline to remove seats and deploy passenger aircraft as freighters back in April, when Covid-19 lockdowns grounded fleets.
Now the airline is preparing to turn 767s into permanent freighters to establish main deck capacity as a long-term strategic plank in its operation.
AC has been a prolific user of ‘preighters’: since the spring it has been operating three B777-300s and four A330-300s without seats for cargo missions, and clocked up more than 3,000 such flights. During ...
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Comment on this article
Rayhan ahmed
November 13, 2020 at 3:15 pmI have just loaded a air Canada Boeing 777
300 and there was plenty of cargo in
The belly hold . It could be that air Canada
Cargo capacity is high we’re they were the
First airline alongside ElAL to turn 777 s
Into preighters .