MIAMI – American Airlines (AA) will fly the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to Anchorage, Alaska (ANC) this summer, potentially in anticipation of a surge of leisure travel.
American Airlines along with other major US airlines are afflicted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With generally low international demand and a multitude of travel restrictions, these airlines are shuffling their route networks and redeploying widebody aircraft on other routes. Recently, American demonstrated this trend by scheduling widebodies on domestic flights to Alaska.
According to
Ishrion Aviation and AA’s website, the Fort Worth-based carrier will operate a 285-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on its Dallas/Fort Worth to Anchorage, Alaska route from June 3 through August 16, 2021. The daily flight operates with the following schedule:
MIAMI – According to IATA, in January, air cargo levels worldwide presented a slight increase of 1.1%, compared to January 2019. Moreover, the air cargo sector seems to have reached pre-COVID-19 levels, as air cargo volumes in cargo tonne-km terms increased by 6.1% on year to year basis.
At the same time, the air cargo sector presents encouraging results according to the load factors, as on this January the industry reached to a level of 58.9%, which translates to a surge of 14.1 percentage point increase on last year.
At the same time, the shortage of belly capacity remains an issue for the air cargo sector, which is decreased by almost 20%. Belly capacity is an extremely important pillar for the air cargo sector. For example, by 2017, the payload capacity on the bellies of wide-body aircraft was more than five times higher compared to the freighter aircraft.
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