Air Canada Swaps Seats for Medical Supplies

摘要

Three Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER widebodies are set to have cabins reconfigured in order to provide additional cargo capacity. The conversions will result in the removal of the 422 seats in each airframe and the installation of loading zones for lightweight boxes containing medical equipment. The modification wasdeveloped, tested and implemented in the first aircraft in six days as part of special arrangements relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim Strauss, vice-president of Cargo at Air Canada, said: "The transformation of [the 777-300], our largest international widebody aircraft, doubles the capacity of each flight andwill enable more goods to move more quickly." A number of other carriers are also flying passenger aircraft with freight only, including Lufthansa, United Airlines and American Airlines - the last made its first cargo-only flights on March 21 since it retired 747 freighters in 1984.