Cargo airline

Air freight rates rose as a consequence, from $0.80 per kg for transatlantic cargoes to $2.50-4 per kg, enticing passenger airlines to operate cargo-only flights through the use of preighters, while cargo airlines bring back into service fuel-guzzling stored aircraft, helped by falling oil prices.

Compared to the passenger variant, the freighter has a supernumerary area, which includes four business-class seats forward of the rigid cargo barrier, full main deck access, bunks, and a galley.

This normally involves the replacement of glazed windows with opaque panels, the strengthening of the cabin floor and insertion of a broad top-hinged door in one side of the fuselage.

[5][6] Usage of large military airplanes for commercial purposes, pioneered by Ukraine's Antonov Airlines in the 1990s, has allowed new types of cargo in aerial transportation.

Some have shut down or merged with others:[11] The following are freight divisions without freighter fleets, using passenger aircraft holds or having other cargo airlines fly on their behalf.

A Boeing 777F of FedEx Express , which is the largest cargo airline in the world.
Unit load device LD3 containers being loaded into the belly cargo hold of a Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft
A Boeing 747-400F of Cargolux
UPS hub at Louisville International Airport
The Antonov An-225 , formerly the world's largest aircraft, used by Antonov Airlines before its destruction in the Russo-Ukrainian War
FedEx Express , the largest airline by freight tonne-kilometres flown
Boeing 777 of the FedEx Express
A300 of European Air Transport , a subsidiary of DHL Aviation
747-8 of Qatar Airways Cargo , the largest all-cargo subsidiary