Kenya Airways ditches Dreamliner seats to fit cargo
Retrofit is first of its kind for a Boeing 787 Kenya Airways is stripping seats from two Boeing 787s to make them mini-freighters. (Photo: Flickr/Eric Salard)
Kenya Airways is preparing to operate the first Boeing 787 passenger plane with seats removed to increase space for cargo.
Montreal-based Avianor in January delivered the first modified 787 Dreamliner to Kenya Airways and is currently pulling seats from the second aircraft, the companies announced this week. Avianor, an affiliate of DRAKKAR Aerospace & Ground Transportation, is the same aviation maintenance and repair company that repurposed four Boeing 777s and three Airbus A330 aircraft for Air Canada last year.