The Boeing Company may partner with experts including Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd and Mammoth Freighters to convert its passenger jets for cargo use to meet growing demand for those aircraft.
Ted Colbert, president and chief executive of Boeing Global Services, said on the sidelines of a news conference in Dubai that the planner plans to follow an asset-light model for cargo conversion programs and does not plan to do the program itself. Used to be.
Air freight has been a rare bright spot for global aviation as online shopping grows and shipping rates rise. With airlines retiring older planes and replacing them with newer, more fuel-efficient models, freighter conversion could give older planes a new lease of life.
Boeing forecasts demand for 2,610 wide-body freighters by 2040, of which 1,720 are conversions from older passenger aircraft, and the rest are new production. While the company currently makes a freighter version of the newer than the 777, that model is based on the smaller 777-200 model.
Earlier this year, IAI said it had started work on the conversion of its first 777-300ER.
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