Cargo airlines will face a shortage of widebody freighter capacity for the next decade and beyond, according to Atlas Air‘s chief executive officer Michael Steen.

As reported by Air Cargo News, Steen believes the growth of widebody freighter capacity will struggle to keep pace with demand growth, as airlines need to retire older aircraft while there is a lack of new freighters entering the market.

“So, the global freighter fleet is now ageing and we are seeing a situation here that we haven’t seen before, where…

Source: ch aviation
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