For Israel Aerospace Industries, Abu Dhabi hub offers route to soaring global demand for freighter conversions | Aviation – Gulf News
The UAE market will assume a central role in Israel Aerospace Industries’ push for a bigger share of the surging global demand for cargo freighters. The Israeli company already has signed freight conversion agreements with Emirates airline and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways.
“The issue of conversion of passenger aircraft to cargo is very ‘in’ right now because the pandemic has changed the ratio between passenger jets and cargo,” said Shmuel Kuzi, Executive Vice-President and General Manager of IAI’s Aviation Group.
IAI’s conversion hub in Abu Dhabi will serve the global demand and comes at a ripe time too. The company will begin converting two highly popular aircraft models – the Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 – over the next few years.
At the Dubai Air Show in November, IAI signed a deal with Emirates Skycargo to convert four Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft into full freighters. The agreement also included an option for further Boeing 777-300ER conversions at a later stage.
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