MINI FREIGHTERS: A POPULAR DEMAND

Some airlines started off by keeping boxes on the seats of their passenger aircrafts to completely replacing the seats with only cargo - calling it ‘Cabin Cargo’. Although it started with Chinese airlines to transport medical items locally, soon the idea was adopted by many other airlines as the demand for PPE kits increased throughout the world. Call it ‘creativity’ or ‘need of the hour’, removing seats did allow 25% more cargo for transportation. Some of these airlines were China Eastern Airlines with 14 A330s, Lufthansa with 10 A330s (which were restored back to normal post May) and Emirates with 10 B777-300ERs.
Around June 2020, almost 100 aircrafts had this reconfiguration with widebody aircrafts contributing the most.

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