UPS and Boeing announced an order yesterday for 14 747-8F's. They stated that they new planes will be utilised for US-Europe and US-Asia cargo, but who knows, maybe they'll pop into YVR from time to time.
Does the end of the Boeing 747 including the 747-8i model ???
I thought it was going to be around a while.
Most definitely not. The 747-8s are brand new and will be around for a long time. Issue is that there are very few operators and due to poor orders production was slated to be halted after all current orders were completed. But with this UPS 787-8F order yesterday, it looks like production may continue! This is great news as Airbus ceased offering an A380 freighter version last year due to poor orders. The 747-8F offers the largest available capacity out of new aircraft being produced and is hopefully going to see more orders to come. Ideally this will spark more interest in the passenger version
Most definitely not. The 747-8s are brand new and will be around for a long time. Issue is that there are very few operators and due to poor orders production was slated to be halted after all current orders were completed. But with this UPS 787-8F order yesterday, it looks like production may continue! This is great news as Airbus ceased offering an A380 freighter version last year due to poor orders. The 747-8F offers the largest available capacity out of new aircraft being produced and is hopefully going to see more orders to come. Ideally this will spark more interest in the passenger version
The theory behind the UPS order is UPS is seeing a shift in demand from high margin overnight to 2 day e-Commerce delivery (all that Amazon Prime stuff). That means it needs to adjust to higher cargo volumes, less frequent trips and at a lower price point. More optimized mix of air/ground. That means bigger aircraft.
The theory behind the UPS order is UPS is seeing a shift in demand from high margin overnight to 2 day e-Commerce delivery (all that Amazon Prime stuff). That means it needs to adjust to higher cargo volumes, less frequent trips and at a lower price point. More optimized mix of air/ground. That means bigger aircraft.
Until Amazon's "Prime Air" takes all that sweet sweet amazon traffic away from them.
Until Amazon's "Prime Air" takes all that sweet sweet amazon traffic away from them.
it is amazing how quickly Amazon has integrated so many aspects of its business. The Prime Air came out of nowhere a few months ago. The plan for 2,000 physical grocery stores in the US is another.
The Prime service is putting pressure on other retailers to offer the same. Most other retailers cant build their own airline from free cash flow. UPS has those, but I agree longer term as Prime Air builds out it is going to be difficult for UPS and FedEx.
I don't have an exact date but the next major announcement should be quite "soon." CZ should also be officially announcing MEX very soon too.
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Still some rouge stuff ..............
Wow, Cathy adding Mexico City, too. Will this mean Air Canada, Aeromexico, and now Cathy doing the YVR-MEX route? I wish we could snag a MTY and / or GDL scheduled route.
Kinda quiet in here, so until the announcement of Johnny's colourful surprise (or any other surprises) I'll put up all the summaries I've completed, in order of size.
YYZ:
SFO:
YVR:
YUL:
DFW:
SEA:
YYC:
Pretty easy to see each airports specialty, (YYZ and SFO are broad based, DFW is Latin American, YUL Europe, YVR is Asia etc...)
For a city of our size (roughly 2.5m metro) that's pretty darn good!! Of course what puts us in there is the preponderance of Asia-Pacific flights. London is good, but Europe a little lacking.
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This is great news as Airbus ceased offering an A380 freighter version last year due to poor orders. The 747-8F offers the largest available capacity out of new aircraft being produced and is hopefully going to see more orders to come. Ideally this will spark more interest in the passenger version 
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