Delayed arrival of freighters may prevent 'a bloodbath' in air cargo market
Only a trickle of large widebody freighters will join the global fleet this year and, ...
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By Alex Lennane
Qatar Airways, not content with merely hosting IATA’s recent shindig in Doha (a corpulent affair by all accounts) has gone big at Farnborough too. CEO Akbar Al Baker is working the media, expressing his anger with Airbus for the carrier’s delayed A380s and no doubt piling pressure on Boeing too, as he hopes to conclude an $18bn 777X deal this week. Meanwhile, cargo chief Ulrich Ogiermann has set out his grand plan for the airline – which involves serious expansion.
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