Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
IATA reported a 16.0% drop in demand in 2020 compared to 2019 (-16.2% for international operations) and a fall in capacity of 27.1% (-27.1% for international operations). In December airlines posted a decrease in international demand of 5.6% compared to the previous...
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has announced the company has been awarded a contract to provide lessor Aero Capital Solutions (ACS) with ten additional B737-800SF Freighter Conversions. This news follows an AEI announcement in October 2020 providing ACS with four...
ACIA Aero Leasing has delivered a further ATR72-212 LCD Freighter to Solenta Aviation. The aircraft will be based in Gabon and operate routes for the DHL West Africa network. This latest conversion brings ACIA's total regional freighter aircraft portfolio to 8...
China Airlines has unveiled the first of six Boeing 777 Freighters, officially becoming the 20th operator of the world’s largest and longest range twin-aisle freighter. The 777 Freighter joins the airline amid growing demand for dedicated freighters as operators...
CDB Aviation, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing, has announced today a new partnership with Germany-based EFW GmbH (EFW) to conduct the Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) conversion of two Airbus A330-300 aircraft in 2021, which...
Boeing’s biennial World Air Cargo Forecast (WACF) forecasts demand for 2,430 freighters over the next 20 years, including 930 new production freighters and 1,500 freighters converted from passenger airplanes. According to the new forecast, world air cargo traffic will...
AELF FlightService has entered the wide-body wet leasing and ACMI charter market, with its first Airbus A330-200 aircraft, MSN 700, now available for work in passenger and auxiliary cargo configuration. This is the first of four A330-200 aircraft that the company...
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has signed a contract to provide Bulgaria-based CargoAir with two AEI B737-800SF Freighter Conversions. CargoAir originally signed agreements for two B737-800BCF conversions, however, the company recently cancelled those agreements...
Aircraft remarketing specialists Airstream International Group has arranged the sale of a Bombardier DHC-8-311 aircraft on behalf of a US Investor. MSN 527 will be converted to a freighter and is the third aircraft that Airstream has placed with Air Inuit with the...
Air Transport Services Group’s (ATSG) leasing subsidiary Cargo Aircraft Management has delivered a converted Boeing 767-300ER freighter to Cargojet Airways of Mississauga, Canada, under the terms of a seven-year lease agreement. “Our business continues to grow, which...
South Korean flag-carriers Korean Air Lines (KAL) and Asiana Airlines have secured the Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) certification from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to carry COVID-19...
The first A330 that Iberia has converted into freighter has arrived in Los Angeles from Madrid. Until four weekly cargo flights between the two cities have been scheduled for this month. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Iberia’s flight operations were...