Flybig (India) took delivery of one ATR72-600, serial 1385, on lease.
Virgin Atlantic (VS, London Heathrow) will wet-lease an A321-200(P2F) from Titan Airways (ZT, London Stansted) for the duration of the summer 2022 season to maintain its cargo-only link from London Heathrow to Brussels National, although the carrier has no long-term plans to remain in the cargo market.
The airline told The Loadstar that the route remained viable due to the ongoing capacity constraints on ferry services between the United Kingdom and the European Union. The demand is driven by pharmaceutical, perishable, and e-commerce freight, mostly transiting the Atlantic via London.
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Saudia signs-up for B777P2Fs
According to CargoFacts, Saudia has signed a partnership agreement with B777 passenger-to-freighter conversion specialist Mammoth Freighters. Part of the deal is that both companies will establish a conversion line for B777s at Jeddah and that the airline is to acquire seven converted B777s. The first of the aircraft will be converted at Mammoth's facility at Fort Worth Alliance (TX), the rest at Jeddah. The deal also includes purchase options on five more converted B777s. No details are known regarding the delivery timeline as well as which version Saudia will be receiving, converted B777-200LRs or -300ERs.
Mammoth is one of the three companies working on the conversion of B777s and will be offering the B777-200LRMF and B777-300ERMF. The company is planning to secure the Supplemental Type Certificates next year and had has secured Canadian-carrier Cargojet as launch customer which has ordered four B777-200LRMFs.
Today, Saudia is operating four B777Fs, as well as wet-leasing three B747-400Fs from Air Atlanta Icelandic.
Ameriflight to add Saab 340Fs
Ameriflight has announced it has signed an agreement with Jetstream Aviation Capital to expand the fleet with fifteen Saab 340Fs. The cargo airline is expecting that the first aircraft will be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year.
The addition of the Saab 340s means that Ameriflight is adding a new type to the fleet. Today, the carrier has a fleet of 52 Beech 99s, 25 Beech 1900s, thirteen EMB120s and 41 SA227s.
Ameriflight has its headquarters at Dallas (TX), with hubs at Borinquen (PR), Burbank (CA), Cincinnati (OH), El Paso (TX), Lansing (MI), Manchester (NH), Omaha (NE), Ontario (CA), Phoenix (AZ), Portland (WA), San Antonio (TX), San Juan (PR) and Spokane (WA).
Illustration by Ameriflight.
Cargojet increases B777P2F-orders
Canadian carrier Cargojet has announced it's increasing its commitments to passenger-to-freighter (P2F) converted B777Fs by securing four B777-300ERSFs with IAI. Two will be delivered in the third quarter of 2024, one in the second quarter of 2025 and the final one in the first quarter of 2026. Last year, Cargojet also announced it had ordered two B777-200LRMFs with Mammoth Aerospace and earlier this year they also added two more. This means that the airline will expand the fleet with a total of eight B777P2Fs in the coming four years.
It has also been confirmed that four of the B777P2Fs will be deployed for DHL, which recently acquired 9,5% of the shares of Cargojet. Next to this, the Canadian carrier will also deploy five additional B767-300Fs for DHL, all to be added this year and next year.
Cargojet, which was founded in 2002, is currently operating ten B757-200PCFs, three B767-200BDSFs and eighteen B767-300ERBCFs/BDSFs. It's also planning to add two more B757- and at least one B767-freighter(s) in the coming months.
Illustration by Cargojet.
Emirates expects B787s to be delayed by a year or more
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int'l) no longer expects to take any B787-9s in 2023 as manufacturing issues continue to plague their production line, Chief Operating Officer Adel Al Redha told reporters during the Arabian Travel Market.
"The 787 was supposed to be delivered in 2023. Now we know for sure that's not going to happen in 2023. It may not happen even in 2024 because Boeing still hasn’t recommenced that production," Al Redha said.
The Emirati carrier has thirty B787-9s on order from the manufacturer. It added the type to its backlog in 2019 through the partial conversion of its B777X order. It hoped this would have allowed it to add the aircraft more rapidly, in light of the B777X's slow-moving certification. While it still seems likely - considering that the B777X is now not expected to enter into service before late 2025 - manufacturing issues have continued to complicate the B787s induction, too.
Boeing has not delivered any B787s since May 2021 due to problems with production quality concerns. It is currently trying to recertify the type with the US Federal Aviation Administration, but Reuters reported that recent documentation, submitted in late April, was deemed "incomplete" by the regulator. Neither Boeing nor the FAA ever commented on a resulting timeline for recertification, although sources recently disclosed that it could happen in the second half of 2022. It is unclear if this most recent recertification snag will result in any further delays.
The Air Current reported that Boeing submitted the documents "in the immediate moments" before its April 27 investor earnings call.
Emirates has sixteen B777-8s and ninety-nine B777-9s on firm order from Boeing. President Tim Clark previously cautioned that delays beyond 2024 could force the airline to reconsider its order book.
However, Emirates also faces issues with Airbus where it has fifty A350-900s on order and which were originally scheduled to deliver in 2023 but are now expected in late 2024. The airline is watching the unfolding legal drama between Airbus and Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int'l) over the A350's accelerated fuselage paint degradation and said that it would not accept deliveries until the issue is addressed.
The delays overall have prompted Emirates to increase the number of older aircraft due for cabin refurbishments.
According to CargoFacts, Saudia has signed a partnership agreement with B777 passenger-to-freighter conversion specialist Mammoth Freighters. Part of the deal is that both companies will establish a conversion line for B777s at Jeddah and that the airline is to acquire seven converted B777s. The first of the aircraft will be converted at Mammoth's facility at Fort Worth Alliance (TX), the rest at Jeddah. The deal also includes purchase options on five more converted B777s. No details are known regarding the delivery timeline as well as which version Saudia will be receiving, converted B777-200LRs or -300ERs.
Mammoth is one of the three companies working on the conversion of B777s and will be offering the B777-200LRMF and B777-300ERMF. The company is planning to secure the Supplemental Type Certificates next year and had has secured Canadian-carrier Cargojet as launch customer which has ordered four B777-200LRMFs.
Today, Saudia is operating four B777Fs, as well as wet-leasing three B747-400Fs from Air Atlanta Icelandic.
Ameriflight has announced it has signed an agreement with Jetstream Aviation Capital to expand the fleet with fifteen Saab 340Fs. The cargo airline is expecting that the first aircraft will be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year.
The addition of the Saab 340s means that Ameriflight is adding a new type to the fleet. Today, the carrier has a fleet of 52 Beech 99s, 25 Beech 1900s, thirteen EMB120s and 41 SA227s.
Ameriflight has its headquarters at Dallas (TX), with hubs at Borinquen (PR), Burbank (CA), Cincinnati (OH), El Paso (TX), Lansing (MI), Manchester (NH), Omaha (NE), Ontario (CA), Phoenix (AZ), Portland (WA), San Antonio (TX), San Juan (PR) and Spokane (WA).
Illustration by Ameriflight.
Canadian carrier Cargojet has announced it's increasing its commitments to passenger-to-freighter (P2F) converted B777Fs by securing four B777-300ERSFs with IAI. Two will be delivered in the third quarter of 2024, one in the second quarter of 2025 and the final one in the first quarter of 2026. Last year, Cargojet also announced it had ordered two B777-200LRMFs with Mammoth Aerospace and earlier this year they also added two more. This means that the airline will expand the fleet with a total of eight B777P2Fs in the coming four years.
It has also been confirmed that four of the B777P2Fs will be deployed for DHL, which recently acquired 9,5% of the shares of Cargojet. Next to this, the Canadian carrier will also deploy five additional B767-300Fs for DHL, all to be added this year and next year.
Cargojet, which was founded in 2002, is currently operating ten B757-200PCFs, three B767-200BDSFs and eighteen B767-300ERBCFs/BDSFs. It's also planning to add two more B757- and at least one B767-freighter(s) in the coming months.
Illustration by Cargojet.
Aeroflot buys eight A330s from foreign lessors
Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo) has bought eight A330s from foreign lessors, a move it claimed met “contractual obligations”, and has transferred them to the Russian register, a spokesperson for the airline told the state-owned news agency TASS on May 13.
“Eight A330 aircraft have been purchased. The aircraft were purchased from foreign lessors as part of the fulfilment of contractual obligations, and the aircraft have been transferred to the Russian registry. Certificates of ownership in the Russian Federation have been issued to PJSC Aeroflot,” the spokesperson said.
Aeroflot’s board of directors discussed the early buyout of aircraft at a meeting on April 25, at around the same time the company announced the imminent launch of widebody flights to the Maldives, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. The majority state-owned flag carrier has not said which companies it had been leasing the aircraft from or how much it had paid.
According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, Aeroflot operates twelve A330-300s, six of which are currently active. In a process that started on March 31, all now have Russian registration codes except for Bermuda-registered VQ-BMV (msn 1284). Eight of the twelve are owned and managed by Aeroflot, while two are owned by GECAS and managed by AerCap, one is owned and managed by Goshawk, and one owned and managed solely by AerCap.
On April 8, the European Union tweaked the sanctions that had been triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine, whereby entities in EU member states are allowed to keep receiving payments from Russian carriers until the leases are paid off, after which ownership can be transferred.
Between 400 and 500 aircraft leased from Western firms are stranded in Russia. Aeroflot’s move could be an effort to maintain reasonable relations with lessors given the tense geopolitical circumstances while at the same time ensuring the jets have valid airworthiness certificates.
However, some lessors have resigned themselves to lengthy insurance claims to try to recover some of the lost value of the aircraft, Reuters reported, the biggest of which has been made by AerCap - a USD3.5 billion claim for more than 100 aircraft.
Emirates expects B787s to be delayed by a year or more
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int'l) no longer expects to take any B787-9s in 2023 as manufacturing issues continue to plague their production line, Chief Operating Officer Adel Al Redha told reporters during the Arabian Travel Market.
"The 787 was supposed to be delivered in 2023. Now we know for sure that's not going to happen in 2023. It may not happen even in 2024 because Boeing still hasn’t recommenced that production," Al Redha said.
The Emirati carrier has thirty B787-9s on order from the manufacturer. It added the type to its backlog in 2019 through the partial conversion of its B777X order. It hoped this would have allowed it to add the aircraft more rapidly, in light of the B777X's slow-moving certification. While it still seems likely - considering that the B777X is now not expected to enter into service before late 2025 - manufacturing issues have continued to complicate the B787s induction, too.
Boeing has not delivered any B787s since May 2021 due to problems with production quality concerns. It is currently trying to recertify the type with the US Federal Aviation Administration, but Reuters reported that recent documentation, submitted in late April, was deemed "incomplete" by the regulator. Neither Boeing nor the FAA ever commented on a resulting timeline for recertification, although sources recently disclosed that it could happen in the second half of 2022. It is unclear if this most recent recertification snag will result in any further delays.
The Air Current reported that Boeing submitted the documents "in the immediate moments" before its April 27 investor earnings call.
Emirates has sixteen B777-8s and ninety-nine B777-9s on firm order from Boeing. President Tim Clark previously cautioned that delays beyond 2024 could force the airline to reconsider its order book.
However, Emirates also faces issues with Airbus where it has fifty A350-900s on order and which were originally scheduled to deliver in 2023 but are now expected in late 2024. The airline is watching the unfolding legal drama between Airbus and Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int'l) over the A350's accelerated fuselage paint degradation and said that it would not accept deliveries until the issue is addressed.
The delays overall have prompted Emirates to increase the number of older aircraft due for cabin refurbishments.
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