News / Why, amid a shortage of widebody freighters, is the A330 given a wide berth?

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The much-discussed lack of maindeck capacity in air cargo has given a new lease of life to ageing freighters that seemed headed for oblivion.

However, not every viable cargo plane is being rushed back into action.

Amid a growing shortage of widebody freighters, one aircraft type seems to attract little interest: while operators and forwarders alike lament the lack of large freighters – especially B747s, and passenger 747-400s are a target for conversion into all-cargo configuration – nobody seems to be in a hurry to snap up A330-200Fs.

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