Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateNovember 14, 2021Airbus tees up early A350 freighter orders with Air LeasePurchase...
The Airbus A330 can be a good freighter, but the aircraft’s peculiarities offer a challenge to owners and operators.
A large turboprop freighter opens a new front in its strategy as Amazon expands its reach to smaller communities.
UPS and FedEx are built around delivering overnight to anywhere. That's not Amazon's game, but the company is building an empire in the sky.
What Amazon needs to do in the air is driven by the ultimate reach and purpose of the courier on the ground. Amazon has two options for the path ahead. Either way, it needs more aircraft. Competing with FedEx and UPS means diversifying into smaller aircraft, while perfecting its own rapid retail delivery means bigger freighters.
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Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateMarch 6, 2023Boeing fuel tank issue keeps 767 freighters and KC-46 tankers...
FARNBOROUGH — In 2028 it will be a violation of international law to sell a new 767 freighter. In March...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateNovember 7, 2022Boeing maneuvers 787 to follow the 767 freighter — with...
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Denial of aviation is a weapon that predates the 21st century battlefield. Yet, with the return of war to Europe, it is also aviation’s Achilles’ heel. With it comes a cascading series of immediate and longer term consequences in the skies as commercial and industrial links are quickly broken after decades of cultivation following the fall of the Soviet Union.
Decisions made by Airbus in the late 1980s are guiding the future second act for the A330 as a converted package-hauler.