Qatar Airways Cargo transported more than 1.5 million tonnes of air freight between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023, helping it maintain its position as the world’s.
Size isn’t everything in the airfreight market – space is. Freighters are the backbone of air cargo, creating networks and routes independent of passenger travel, providing flexibility for specialty and oversized cargo, and establishing key trade lanes. The freighter aircraft market has boomed in the past two years as the aircraft created reliability amid COVID-19
Luxembourg-based Vallair and France-based UUDS will develop a Class E cargo modification for the A330-300, with European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval expected in the next few months. Vallair told Cargo Facts that it has been working on the project since the first quarter of 2021. Vallair's new CHR hangar can house two A330s.
Carriers based in the Asia-Pacific region remain hesitant to turn their backs on cargo-only passenger freighters despite the discontinuation of cabin-loaded cargo flights by carriers in other regions. “Our cargo-only passenger flights are operated based on market conditions and will always be dependent on different market conditions,” George Edmunds, general manager of commercial cargo at
With sanctions placed on Russia-based carriers, lack of capacity will continue to be a key driver for air cargo, especially as every available freighter is already in high demand. At the height of the pandemic, close to 250,000 freighters and passenger aircraft deployed for cargo-only operations were in use. Of those passenger aircraft, around 400