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Uni-Top takes first A300-600F… now what?

David Harris by David Harris
August 25, 2015
in Carriers, Freighter Aircraft, Freighter Conversions, Strategy
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Uni-Top's first A300-600 was inducted for conversion at EFW in September 2014, and redelivered in June 2015. When will it enter service, and when will the remaining six A300-600s in conversion be redelivered?
Uni-Top’s first A300-600 was inducted for conversion at EFW in September 2014, and redelivered in June 2015. When will it enter service, and when will the remaining six A300-600s in conversion be redelivered?

China-based Uni-Top Airlines took redelivery of an A300-600F (763, ex-China Eastern), following conversion to freighter configuration by EFW.

This is the first of seven A300-600s Uni-Top is having converted by EFW, and marks a significant change in the carrier’s strategy. Uni-Top currently operates three 747-200Fs in international service to India from its base in Wuhan, but, as we reported last year, the carrier says it will set up a domestic China feeder operation to support the international flying.

But details are scarce. Uni-Top has not indicated when the newly acquired A300 freighter will enter revenue service, nor what its domestic/regional route structure will be. And another unanswered question is whether the domestic network is planned only as a feeder service for Uni-Top’s China-India business, or whether the company is eyeing the domestic China express market.

Also unknown is the carrier’s plan for its 747-400 freighter. In 2013, Uni-top acquired Tianjin-based GrandStar Cargo International, the former joint venture of Sinotrans Air Transportation Development Co. and Korean Air. The acquisition gave Uni-Top Grandstar’s traffic rights, and also the carrier’s single 747-400F (26401). Two years after the acquisition, that freighter remains parked at Beijing, where it has sat since GrandStar ended operations in 2011.

Uni-Top currently serves the Indian cities of Delhi and Chennai from its base in Wuhan.

Tags: A300-600FAir Cargo StrategyAircraft FleetAsia-Pacific CargoEFWFreighter conversionIndiauni-top airlines
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