by Spyros Georgilidakis | Oct 1, 2021 | News
Lufthansa will soon retire the last MD-11F operating anywhere in Europe, as they add two 777F freighters to service – including a cheeky one. We have seen cargo operations booming in the last 18 months. Obviously, the pandemic had an enormous impact, given the loss of...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Sep 3, 2021 | News
Aviation faces electrification and/or alternative propulsion challenges, but its first disruption involves the supply chain of electric cars! There are many initiatives involving alternative propulsion in aviation, at different scales. The technological challenges are...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Aug 21, 2021 | News
Air Canada believes that the location of its cargo hubs is giving it a competitive advantage over US cargo haulers. There’s just one problem… they don’t have any dedicated freighters! Not yet, anyway. But is that even a problem? Aviation numbers in the US are...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Aug 4, 2021 | News
DHL and Eviation announced an agreement for an ‘eCargo’ version of the Alice, an all-electric aircraft. The first Alice should fly this year. We have seen other airlines take an interest in all-electric aircraft already. Some of these involve eVTOL designs. But DHL...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | May 5, 2021 | News
Airbus and Lufthansa Technik are working on an STC, for temporary modifications, allowing airlines to carry ‘cargo in cabin’. A lot of it! It is one of the products of these troubling times. It seemed to make sense in the airline days, when countries were scrambling...
