Grim prospects for widebody freighters?
As we have reported many times, the combination of high fuel costs and low inventory carrying costs for shippers in...
Freighter Aircraft
The bell continues to toll for the 747-400F and MD-11F
Speaking at this week’s IATA World Cargo Symposium in Los Angeles, FedEx founder, Chairman and CEO Fred Smith emphasized the...
Mystery Machines: Whose four 777Fs are these?
Boeing recently announced an order for four 777 Freighters from “Unidentified Customer(s)”. Based on information from sources in North America...
“Super” news for the 747-8F
Does anyone remember 37564? That's the msn of an early-build 747-8 Freighter, originally one of twelve ordered by Atlas Air Worldwide...
What happened to the widebody conversion market?
2013 was a very good year in the narrowbody conversion market, as orders poured in for passenger-to-freighter conversion of 737-300s,...
A slow year for new-build freighter orders
Airbus and Boeing enjoyed another strong year in 2013, booking almost 3,000 commercial jet orders between them. As shown in...
Large-door freighter conversion program for the CRJ200 moves forward.
When it comes to new jet freighter conversion programs, most in the air freight and logistics industry focus on traditional...
ST Aero enters a new conversion and lease joint venture
ST Aerospace and Wings Capital Partners formed a 50/50 joint venture, WingStar Pte. Ltd., to acquire aircraft for lease, conversion,...
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