The perfect storm of scarce airfreight capacity along with an increasingly online retail environment has precipitated demand for freighter conversions...

Pivot to cargo insulates Taiwan’s combination carriers

by Jeff Lee

January 19, 2021

A heavy focus on airfreight for the majority of 2020 protected Taiwan-based China Airlines and EVA Air from suffering to...

Decline in options curbs 2020 freighter orders

by Charles Kauffman and Jeff Lee

January 13, 2021

After a surge in orders for production freighters in 2018, followed by record deliveries in 2019, it was never expected that 2020 would be a runaway...

FedEx acquires 777F from Etihad

by Jeff Lee

January 8, 2021

U.A.E.-based Etihad Airways is further reducing its freighter fleet, as the 777F (39682) it had operated on behalf of FedEx...

Who’s who in freighter conversions: The conversion houses

Amazon expands internal P2F management team

by Charles Kauffman

January 7, 2021

A Delta Air Lines 767-300ER similar to those Amazon has acquired to convert on its own....

Nella Airlines to start flying a 737-400F in 2021

by Jeff Lee

December 22, 2020

Brazil-based Nella Airlines plans to enter the cargo market next year, with an anticipated launch of freighter operations in mid-2021....

Allied Air receives first African-owned 737-800SF

Conversion feedstock and STCs unleash pent-up demand

by Charles Kauffman and Jeff Lee

December 21, 2020

Eight months into the COVID-19...

EFW ends week of widebody deliveries with youngest A330 yet

by Charles Kauffman and Jeff Lee

December 18, 2020

Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) finished touch labor on its sixth A330-300 passenger-to-freighter conversion and redelivered the aircraft (1124, ex-Hong Kong Airlines)...