News / 747F operator loses business and calls for US to ease restriction on bigger cargo

04/10/2018

A US restriction on carrying tall, rigid cargo on 747 freighters is costing US operators millions of dollars in lost business to foreign competitors.

In a filing on Monday to the US Department of Transportation (DoT), National Air Cargo requested an exemption to allow it to carry “tall ...

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