News / Supply chain issues hold back pace of freighter conversions

Boeing wants to turn more used passenger planes into freighters, but supply chain issues could impede those ambitions.

Over the course of the pandemic Boeing has drastically ramped up its freighter conversion programme. Since March 2020 the number of conversion lines it is running globally has jumped from 12 to 22. The majority – 17 of them – are turning out 737 cargo planes, while the other five are working on 767s.

Freighter conversion providers have been running flat out, with bookings ...