First Airbus A380 to be converted as
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First Airbus A380 to be converted as "Preighter" by Lufthansa Technik


Romain Guillot
| 2020/05/07 | 282 words | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | MAINTENANCE / MRO

The need for auxiliary freighters continues to increase. Lufthansa Technik, the MRO subsidiary of Lufthansa Group has announced that it has been awarded a technical support and engineering contract to transform an Airbus A380 into a temporary cargo aircraft. The identity of the customer has not been disclosed but seems to be Portuguese charter airline HiFly.

Contrary to what we can read here and there, it is not a P2F (Passenger-to-Freighter) conversion per se (it would take at least thre...(…)

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