News / Airports need to rethink as belly freight grows and cargo villages go out of style

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Cargo villages on airports are an anachronism, according to one US-based cargo facility developer.

Built away from passenger terminals to serve chiefly all-cargo aircraft, they are in the wrong place to deal with the rising volumes of belly freight, according to the source who preferred to remain anonymous.

Airbus, which has no widebody freighters larger than the A330-200F in its line-up, is bearish on maindeck cargo and predicts, in its recently published 20-year market forecast, that passenger planes will boost their share of the global ...