News / Will US seize C17 commercial opportunity as Antonov grasps monopoly?

26/05/2023

Heavylift air freight faces a bleak future amid a dramatic war-induced reduction in AN-124 availability, as well as the 747 edging closer to end of life with no alternatives to hand.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may be the source of the present capacity shortfall, but the war has also shone a light on an aircraft with a commercial life that stems from a unique, “and unlikely seen again”, genesis, according to Air Charter Service’s cargo director Dan Morgan-Evans.

“It was the break-up ...