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Qatar Airways Cargo transported more than 1.5 million tonnes of air freight between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023, helping it maintain its position as the world’s...

Size isn’t everything in the airfreight market – space is. Freighters are the backbone of air cargo, creating networks and routes independent of passenger travel, providing flexibility for specialty and oversized cargo, and establishing key trade lanes. The freighter aircraft market has boomed in the past two years as the aircraft created reliability amid COVID-19

Luxembourg-based Vallair and France-based UUDS will develop a Class E cargo modification for the A330-300, with European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval expected in the next few months. Vallair told Cargo Facts that it has been working on the project since the first quarter of 2021. Vallair's new CHR hangar can house two A330s.

Carriers based in the Asia-Pacific region remain hesitant to turn their backs on cargo-only passenger freighters despite the discontinuation of cabin-loaded cargo flights by carriers in other regions. “Our cargo-only passenger flights are operated based on market conditions and will always be dependent on different market conditions,” George Edmunds, general manager of commercial cargo at

With sanctions placed on Russia-based carriers, lack of capacity will continue to be a key driver for air cargo, especially as every available freighter is already in high demand. At the height of the pandemic, close to 250,000 freighters and passenger aircraft deployed for cargo-only operations were in use. Of those passenger aircraft, around 400

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will be ending cargo-in-cabin passenger flights, with no exemptions past July 31. After reviewing the context for in-cabin cargo beyond designated areas like overhead bins and stowage compartments, EASA determined that capacity challenges spurred by the collapse of passenger travel due to COVID-19 in early 2020 “no longer

A new Malta-registered company, Vision European Airways (VEA), is aiming to operate passenger freighters on behalf of freight forwarders and plans to file for its air operator certificate (AOC) in Malta within the next two to three weeks. More 3PLs are seeking out dedicated cargo capacity through long-term agreements, including Teleport, the logistics venture of

Vietnam-based passenger airline Bamboo Airways has been operating cargo-only passenger freighters since shortly after beginning operations in 2019 and remains open to additional freighter services in 2022, even as passenger travel slowly recovers. Photo courtesy of Meantime Communications Bamboo Airways, which received its first 787-9 in December 2019, has been operating three 787-9 with seats

Brazilian carrier Azul has become the first airline to operate reconfigured Embraer E-Jet passenger freighters with main decks that have been modified into Class F cargo compartments. Azul told Cargo Facts that Brazil-based LHColus Tecnologica, the engineering consultant it has partnered with, has now received a supplemental type certificate (STC) from Brazil’s National Civil Aviation

Iceland-based Bluebird Nordic is expanding into widebodies and has registered the first of three 2009-vintage 777-300ERs that it will eventually operate as full freighters. The latest entry on the Icelandic aircraft registry is unit 37705, with Bluebird Nordic as the operator and owned by STLC Europe Twenty Five Leasing Limited, an affiliate of GTLK Europe. […]