Weekly Wrap: A look back at the rise of Amazon Air [Video]

• Charles Kauffman and Jeff Lee
• September 4, 2020
• All Posts, Carriers, Conversions, Editorial, News, Podcast, Strategy, Video, Widebody Fleet Analysis

This week, the first 767-300ER registered directly to Amazon surfaced in the FAA registry. From its early days of launching a trial network in the fall of 2015, Amazon Air has quickly built up its network of own-controlled capacity, and is on track to operate a fleet of at least eighty-one aircraft by the end […]

Conversion outlook: How many retired 767s will end up as freighters?

• Charles Kauffman and Jeff Lee
• July 24, 2020
• Aircraft, All Posts, Capacity & Demand, Carriers, Editorial, Equipment, Express, Logistics, News, Strategy, Widebody Conversions

How many of the 280 operable 767-300ERs under age twenty-six are destined to become twenty-four pallet 767-300Fs? The pandemic may be changing the calculus.  Of the younger-vintage 767-300ERs, just 102 aircraft are currently active, according to data from ch-aviation. More than half (146) are currently in storage, twenty-six are in maintenance, and six are in conversion.   […]

Planes on Pause: COVID forces aircraft into storage

• Joshua Aelick
• July 16, 2020
• Aircraft, Carriers, Conversions, Editorial, Equipment, Features, Narrowbody Conversions, News, Widebody Conversions

On July 8, a 767-300ER (25583) previously operated by Air Canada Rouge and parked at Kansas City (MCI) touched down at Pinal Airpark (MZJ), followed by two more Air Canada 767-300s in the next two days. All three planes, considered suitable conversion feedstock, have been inducted into storage programs at Ascent Aviations Services, located at […]

DHL to add three 767Fs with IAI conversion order

• Jeff Lee
• June 23, 2020
• Aircraft, Carriers, Editorial, Equipment, Express, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, Logistics, News, Strategy, Widebody Conversions

DHL Express will grow its owned fleet with three more 767-300Fs, under a new conversion deal with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and also has the option to convert another 767 with IAI [FATs 005471-005473]. IAI told Cargo Facts the aircraft will be converted at the Mexicana MRO Services facility in Mexico City (MEX), and expects the […]

IAI redelivers two 767-300BDSFs to CAM

• Jeff Lee
• June 2, 2020
• Carriers, Editorial, Equipment, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, News, Strategy, Widebody Conversions

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has redelivered two freshly converted 767-300BDSFs to Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM), the leasing arm of ATSG, after another 767-300 (29429, ex-American), arrived May 28 at IAI’s facility in Tel Aviv (TLV) to undergo conversion into freighter configuration [FATs 005443-005446]. The first of the two freighters (29229, ex-LATAM), which arrived at TLV in August […]

Air Astana may add 767Fs with new cargo division

• Jeff Lee
• May 26, 2020
• Aircraft, Capacity & Demand, Carriers, News, Widebody Conversions

Kazakhstan-based Air Astana has set up its own dedicated air cargo division and could become a freighter operator with converted 767-300Fs. According to the carrier, the decision was prompted by the recent boost in regional demand and a review of the strategy for the fleet after the COVID-19 crisis. While Air Astana had already been […]

Pax freighters: There go the seats

• Charles Kauffman and Jeff Lee
• May 14, 2020
• Aircraft, Carriers, Editorial, Equipment, Freighter Fleet Analysis, Logistics, News

Air cargo capacity was first to go, and seats are now following. At least twenty-two carriers have now removed seats on at least sixty-six passenger aircraft in order to create additional space for cargo carriage. As of May 14, Cargo Facts has recorded more than 1,300 passenger aircraft that have been operated in cargo-only service, […]

Cargojet takes second owned 767-200BDSF

• Jeff Lee
• April 6, 2020
• Aircraft, Carriers, Conversions, Equipment, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, News, Strategy, Widebody Conversions

Canada-based Cargojet Airways has taken redelivery of a 767-200BDSF (30430, ex-UTair) that was converted into freighter configuration by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) [FAT 005376]. Unit 30430 is the second 767-200BDSF owned by the carrier. The aircraft was ferried to Hamilton (YHM) on April 5 from the IAI facility in Tel Aviv (TLV), where it had arrived […]