How Air Canada beat US airlines removing seats for cargo

Boxes of face masks and tied down with nets on the passenger cabin floor of plane after seats were removed. Air Canada was faster than U.S. airlines to modify planes for this type of cargo operation.

It took the Federal Aviation Administration two months to authorize U.S. airlines to remove seats from passenger aircraft for cargo purposes. Air Canada (TSX: AC) received its governmental OK in a week.

Industry urgency to innovate also was greater north of the border. Canada’s flag carrier was already flying cabin-loaded flights by mid-April, one month before U.S. carriers even applied through their trade association to remove seats from their airplanes.

The delay may have cost U.S. carriers...

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