Air France-KLM chiefs bullish on prospects for sustainable growth in air cargo
The Air France-KLM-Martinair airline group have signalled a long-term commitment to freight. The freighter fleet of Air ...
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 that drove the agenda.
“It is the 737-800 that is dictating how we do the cargo business in Asia now,” said Mohd Yunus Idris, managing director of Malaysia Airlines Cargo (MASKargo). “Narrowbodies will continue to dominate ...
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David Ambridge
November 01, 2013 at 2:28 amInterestingly though there is nothing LOW COST about LCC’s that carry Cargo! They do exactly the same as everyone else does.
David Harris
November 01, 2013 at 9:07 pmThe 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