At one point, 25 passenger aircraft had their seats taken out in order to maximize cargo capacity. Ethiopian embraced the preighter early onBefore COVID, Ethiopian Cargo worked with a dedicated fleet of 10 777F and two 737-800s. Necessity pushed us into converting 25 aircraft plus we used our existing cargo aircraft, 12 of them, so altogether we were working with about 37 of them.”Ethiopian’s cargo conversions weren’t just change of use. Now, seats are going back inHaving successfully achieved six months of survival primarily through cargo operations and repatriation flights, Ethiopian is now looking ahead. Esayas told us,“There are a few of them which we are now partly converting back to passenger configuration.

Source: Ethiopian News August 28, 2020 09:11 UTC