Flying-Tiger From Germany, joined Aug 1999, 4114 posts, RR: 39 Posted (6 years 6 months 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1467 times:
After checking the latest Air Cargo Online, some interesting news:
- Transmile (Malaysia) wants to add two MD-11F and 2 727-200F to its fleet next year. I´m a bit surprised about the MD-11F as I thought that there is no equipment available.
- MAS Kargo has not been able to source A300Fs due to unavailability of frames.
- Tampa Cargo has unsuccessfully tried to source additional B767Fs, and is not looking to get one B757-200F to replace their DC-8F
- LAN Chile apparently still has to decide if they take their two B767 deliveries this year as freighters or just one freighter and one pax version
Really? Never thought about that one... no, seriously, the second-hand market for MD-11Fs is known to be extremly tight, and ost of the pax MD-11s have been converted by now with only very few left in the market. Thus I´m a bit surprised that they think that they are able to source them.
Quoting Cobra27 (Reply 1): But how the f... is it still economical to fly 727? It burns around 500 than competition
Well, which replacement is available? The B757-200F and the B737-400F, at max. Both a re far younger, and are likely to attract quite a higher leasing rate compared to the 727-200F. And if you need the 722F only a couple of hours (don´t how much they are utilitzed) a day, it should be cheaper to spend money on variable costs (=fuel) then to have higher fixed costs (leasing rate).
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