These airlines will remove seats to carry cargo and medical supplies on passenger aircraft turned into freighters:
to remove seats from four widebody aircraft, likely A330s. Unlike its European peers, Lufthansa has a large freight aircraft fleet owing to Germany’s export-strong economy. Lufthansa this month expects to operate 35 weekly cargo-only flights on passenger aircraft, some of which will be its hybrid-freighters.China Eastern removed seats from an A330 to make more room for cargo. China Eastern is believed to be the first airline to remove seats from a widebody, although not all seats were taken out.
Like much of the current environment, when it comes to temporarily turning a passenger aircraft into a freighter, there is little precedent.
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