EXPRESS TO GET FREIGHTER UPGRADE
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- Thursday, 27 July 2006
The chief executive officer of Qantas, Geoff Dixon, said this was the first jet freighter conversion work ever to be undertaken in Australia.
“We will establish a new operation to undertake the work at our facility in Avalon, Victoria, creating 60 jobs.
“This new operation will convert four B737-300 aircraft into freighters and then wet lease this capacity to AaE,” Dixon said.
The B737-300 aircraft are currently being utilised by the airline’s New Zealand operation. They will be replaced in New Zealand by four B737-400s.
The conversion work will commence in April 2006 and be completed by January 2007, with the aircraft entering AaE service as they are completed from August this year. The four B737-300 freighters will replace three of AaE’s fleet of B727 freighters.
Australian air Express is owned jointly by Qantas and Australia Post.
