As commentators ask whether the aviation industry will continue with its long-established flawed practice of buying too many of the wrong types of aircraft based on current passenger and freighter demand (because market demand fluctuates between the time of order and aircraft delivery), shippers are being told to factor in the lack of large (oversize) aircraft during their manufacturing processes.

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Lawyers have announced court approval of a protocol for the second distribution of settlement funds in the Canadian Air Cargo price-fixing class action relating to an alleged global conspiracy to fix prices of airfreight shipping services.  

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Canada's WestJet is launching a freighter fleet, with the first used Boeing 737-800 jet to be converted for cabin cargo within days and a second flying by July 1.

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Alaska Air Cargo is to add two Boeing 737-800 P2F aircraft to its dedicated freighter fleet, taking the total to five.

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