Originally Posted by
jewitts
The company I work for regularly airfreights materials by the palette load from Europe to USA. Our agent told us yesterday to expect up to 4 weeks of delay due to lack of Transatlantic capacity! It coincides with a disruption in sea freight because empty shipping containers are stuck in China.
Lufty have delayed retirement of their MD-11Fs to carry freight to the states, and say they will fly empty pax widebodies to carry freight, presumably A350s seeing as they have the largest freight capacity of any LH pax aircraft.