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Austrian Airlines to terminate 'preighter' operation
来源：Shipping News Headlines 编辑：编辑部 发布：2021/06/29 14:01:16
AUSTRIAN Airlines says it's ending its preighter operation after 15 months, reports London's Air Cargo News.
The Lufthansa Group-owned airline's long-haul passenger aircraft have regularly operated as freighter-only aircraft between Asia and Europe since March last year.
Two B777s (OE-LPA and OE-LPC) even had their seats removed to boost cargo capacity and acted as the "backbone" of the operation.
OE-LPA will be the last of the two aircraft to have its seats replaced and from July the aircraft will resume passenger flights to North America, among other destinations.
"On 159 flights, we transported 4,500 tonnes of relief supplies to Europe in the fight against the pandemic," the carrier said. "The cargo included 200 million protective masks, 30 million test kits and more than 15 million medical gloves. We flew the goods to Austria, but also to Germany and Italy."
The Lufthansa Group-owned airline's long-haul passenger aircraft have regularly operated as freighter-only aircraft between Asia and Europe since March last year.
Two B777s (OE-LPA and OE-LPC) even had their seats removed to boost cargo capacity and acted as the "backbone" of the operation.
OE-LPA will be the last of the two aircraft to have its seats replaced and from July the aircraft will resume passenger flights to North America, among other destinations.
"On 159 flights, we transported 4,500 tonnes of relief supplies to Europe in the fight against the pandemic," the carrier said. "The cargo included 200 million protective masks, 30 million test kits and more than 15 million medical gloves. We flew the goods to Austria, but also to Germany and Italy."