Ethiopian Airlines is accelerating efforts to convert passenger planes into freight aircraft as demand for cargo movement continues to rise. Ethiopian cargo operation is amazingly growing very fast, faster than the global growth rate. So this is one part of the aircraft passenger conversion operation which we have working on. And recently we have been working on converting a passenger aircraft into a dedicated cargo airplane,” Retta Melaku, COO, Ethiopian Airlines Group. Young Ethiopian engineers and technicians are behind all the work on these planes that’s enabling the Ethiopian flag carrier to convert these planes to freighters locally while at the same time-saving millions of dollars for the airline.

Source: Ethiopian News June 02, 2022 18:01 UTC