Freight grew in importance as passengers grew less important. The demand for PPE from overseas required US carriers to use long-range widebody aircraft to get to source markets like China. The cargo was bulky but relatively light. Several airlines took…
The mid-sized air cargo market has been dominated in recent years by the Boeing 767, whether factory-build freighters (still in production for FedEx) or converted freighters (for which Amazon Prime Air is a key growth customer). The 767-300ER has become…
With the global freighter fleet being the busiest out there, what does the data tell us about what is going on? It turns out the, based on US T-100 data, Boeing dominates this business segment with its dedicated freighters. Looking…
According to numbers crunched by DHL, it will take 8,000 747-sized aircraft to move 1 billion doses of a vaccine. Bear in mind the global population is currently estimated at 7.8 billion. No matter how you look at this challenge,…
DeHavilland Canada announced earlier this week that Transport Canada approved the conversion of Dash 8-100/200 and Dash 8-300 aircraft into simplified package freighters in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This augments the earlier certification of a package freighter conversion…
The air freight market has been through something of a roller coaster ride. The chart is from IATA and must have been a nailbiting ride for the industry. As IATA stated: “Overcapacity is coming mainly from an expansion of the…