FedEx reactivates first parked jet this year

• Jeff Lee
• April 16, 2020
• Aircraft, Capacity & Demand, Carriers, Equipment, Express, News, Production Freighters, Strategy

While hundreds of passenger aircraft have been heading to Victorville (VCV) for short-term storage during the COVID-19 crisis, FedEx Express has brought an A300-600F (789) out of VCV, ferrying it to Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) on April 14. Unit 789, which was sent from Memphis (MEM) to VCV to be parked March 13, is […]

FedEx continues removal of capacity

• Jeff Lee
• February 10, 2020
• Aircraft, Carriers, Equipment, Express, News, Production Freighters, Strategy

FedEx Express in the past week removed two MD-11Fs (48547 and 48458) and a 757-200F (24924, ex-Astraeus) from service and sent them to Victorville (VCV) to be parked. Units 48547 and 48458 were ferried to VCV on Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 respectively, while unit 24924 was flown to the desert on Feb. 8. FedEx […]

FedEx retires last A310-300F

• Charles Kauffman
• January 6, 2020
• Aircraft, Carriers, Conversions, Express, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, Narrowbody Conversions, News, Production Freighters, Strategy

Over the weekend, FedEx completed its final revenue flight utilizing an A310-300F. After completing a routine round-trip flight between Sioux Falls (FSD) and FedEx’s Memphis (MEM) hub on the morning of Jan. 4, the express company bid farewell to the final operating A310-300F (439) in its fleet.  This was the third A310-300F FedEx has retired since Christmas. Until recently, FedEx had operated the trio of A310-300Fs in scheduled service. […]

FedEx accelerates MD-10-10F retirement, receives final production 767F for 2019

• Jeff Lee
• December 24, 2019
• Aircraft, Carriers, Express, News, Production Freighters, Strategy

FedEx will speed up the withdrawal of its MD-10-10F fleet, with nine more aircraft to be retired over the next six months, as the company took delivery of its fifteenth 767-300F (63113) this calendar year [FAT 005268]. Apart from unit 63113, which is the 20th and final production 767-300F delivered by Boeing in 2019, FedEx […]

FedEx continues replacing A300Fs with 767Fs in Europe

• Jeff Lee
• December 6, 2019
• Aircraft, Carriers, Express, News, Production Freighters, Strategy

FedEx Express is expanding its own-operated capacity in its European network. The integrator has begun flying a 767-300F six times a week between its hub at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Milan Malpensa (MXP), replacing an A300-600F. FedEx began the deployment of 767Fs in Europe in July with a five-times-weekly route between CDG and Dublin […]

FedEx to park or retire 35 freighters on express headwinds, severed Amazon ties

• Charles Kauffman
• September 18, 2019
• Aircraft, Carriers, Equipment, Express, News, Production Freighters

Concurrent with the release of its 1QFY20 earnings, FedEx announced plans to park or retire the equivalent of up to thirty-five MD-10-10F, A310-300F and MD11F aircraft by the end of its next fiscal year. The company blamed weaker than expected express demand on trade friction and other macroeconomic influences battering the industrial sector. FedEx also […]

FedEx takes delivery of 767-300F, retires MD-10-10F

• Charles Kauffman
• August 12, 2019
• Carriers, Features, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, Production Freighters

In a one-two punch, FedEx swiftly took delivery of a 767-300F (63109) from Boeing, and subsequently retired an MD-10-10F (48263) [FATs 005089, 5091]. Although FedEx has long labeled 767-300Fs a replacement for its ageing MD-10F fleet, in the six years since FedEx took delivery of its first 767-300F in September 2013 (42706), the carrier has […]

Freighter aircraft transactions through the first half of April

• Caryn Livingston and Charles Kauffman
• April 15, 2019
• Freighter Aircraft Transactions

Every week in Cargo Facts Update, we include a list of recent freighter aircraft transactions, and then a comprehensive summary in the monthly issue of Cargo Facts. Each reference to a freighter aircraft transaction (FAT) in our publications contains a unique FAT code linked to the FAT database on the CargoFacts.com website. This database is […]