NCA’s 747F fleet to be fully operational ahead of peak season

Following a maintenance check in Taiwan, a Nippon Cargo Airlines 747-400F (36135) will be returned to commercial service, to be operated on a CMI basis by Atlas Air . A fifth 747-400F (36133) is not far behind, and NCA tells Cargo Facts that once the two 747-400Fs are back in service, which will occur ahead of this year’s peak season, the entire NCA-owned 747F fleet will be back in service. Prior to June 2018 when NCA was forced to ground its own-operated fleet due to issues with maintenance records, NCA operated eight 747-8Fs and three 747-400Fs on its own AOC, while Atlas Air operated two other 747-400Fs owned by the Tokyo-based carrier on a CMI basis as part of a 2016 agreement [FATs 003591-3592]. Less than a month following the June 2018 grounding, NCA gradually began putting its eight-strong 747-8F fleet back into commercial service on an aircraft-by-aircraft basis. By January 2019, all eight 747-8Fs were once again operational. As for the carrier’s 747-400Fs, it was decided that they would not be returned to service under NCA’s AOC. Instead, in an effort to streamline its operations, NCA decided in August 2018 to consolidate the aircraft operating on its own AOC to a single platform – the 747-8F. The other three 747-400Fs previously operated by NCA, meanwhile, like the carrier’s other two 747-400Fs, would return to service on an Atlas AOC as part of an agreement for expanded CMI flying the two carriers reached in January [FATs 004760-4762]. Following the return to service of 36132 in February, Atlas today operates three 747-400Fs in CMI ops for NCA. The fourth aircraft (36135), meanwhile, departed Victorville Airport (VCV) yesterday, where the aircraft had been stored since fall 2018, and was ferried to Taipei (TPE) where it will undergo maintenance checks ahead of planned reentry into commercial service. NCA’s final inactive 747-400F (36133) remains in storage at VCV, but is on track to return to service later this fall. Regarding schedules for the remainder of the year, NCA says discussions with its customers are ongoing and that decisions will likely be made soon.

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