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Boeing Expands Capacity for 737-800BCF to Meet Strong Customer Demand
As express and e-commerce markets continue to drive strong demand for production and converted freighters, Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced a new partnership with a Costa Rica-based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider to create additional conversion capacity for the 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter.
Boeing will open two 737-800BCF conversion lines with Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Aeroindustriales (COOPESA) in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The first of the new conversion lines is expected to open in early 2022, with the second anticipated later that year. Boeing forecasts 1,500 freighter conversions will be needed over the next 20 years to meet growing demand. Of those, 1,080 will be standard-body conversions, with nearly 30% of that demand coming from North America and Latin America.
An ASL Boeing 737-4Y0(SF). The new he 737-800BCF is up to 15% more fuel efficient
ASL Aviation Holdings DAC (ASL) has confirmed today that it is taking up 10 options for the 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter.
This follows the original agreement with Boeing (NYSE: BA) for 10 firm orders and 10 options, announced at the Paris Air Show in June 2019.
The first 737-800BCF aircraft for ASL was delivered and entered service last month with ASL Airlines France. The second aircraft will be accepted by ASL’s joint-venture airline, K-Mile Asia this month and is expected to enter service in early April from its Bangkok Suvarnabhumi base. This will be the first 737-800BCF registered in Thailand. Four aircraft are currently under conversion, and another two aircraft are due for induction in the coming weeks.
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By Murdo Morrison2021-02-01T11:28:00+00:00
It is not the kind of good-news story we saw much of in 2020 – an aviation company expanding to tap an area of the market where demand for services is outstripping supply. However, that is exactly what Welsh maintenance, repair and overhaul firm Caerdav – founded by Iron Maiden front-man Bruce Dickinson – announced in October it was doing by establishing a cargo conversion facility for Boeing 737s at its site near Cardiff, which it hopes to have up and running this quarter.
Source: Caerdav
left) and Joachim Jones took the decision to move into cargo conversions last year