Boeing 787

Kenya Airways ditches Dreamliner seats to fit cargo

A white jet with red tail on take off with wheels still down. Kenya Airways.

Kenya Airways is preparing to operate the first Boeing 787 passenger plane with seats removed to increase space for cargo. 

Montreal-based Avianor in January delivered the first modified 787 Dreamliner to Kenya Airways and is currently pulling seats from the second aircraft, the companies announced this week. Avianor, an affiliate of DRAKKAR Aerospace & Ground Transportation, is the same aviation maintenance and repair company that repurposed four Boeing 777s and three Airbus A330 aircraft for...

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Will shippers miss British Airways’ 747?

British Airways 747-400 jumbo jets lined up at the airport gate. British Airways is retiring the planes, which were not the most efficient from a fuel or cargo perspective.

British Airways’s decision to immediately chop all 31 Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets from its fleet represents a sizable loss of future cargo capacity until the global economy returns to normal. But their eventual replacement with newer, more fuel efficient, planes better suited for cargo will likely benefit airlines and shippers over time.

Passenger airlines, struggling to make ends meet, are accelerating the retirement of large aircraft already targeted for replacement because of higher operating...

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