News / Narrowbodies emerge as the new threat to freighters

31/10/2013

There will be a marked shift towards narrowbody belly capacity in the airfreight market, delegates heard at the packed Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku this week. While some hand-wringing over the future of freighters continued, it was competition and changes in the passenger market ...

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David Ambridge
November 01, 2013 at 2:28 am
Interestingly though there is nothing LOW COST about LCC’s that carry Cargo! They do exactly the same as everyone else does.

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David Harris
November 01, 2013 at 9:07 pm
The real threat is not narrowbodies, but small roundbodies. Specifically the new Precision Conversions PCP program. More information on that is available here: http://cargofacts.net/profiles/blogs/new-conversion-program-will-solve-the-air-freight-industry-s-most

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