{"id":404643,"date":"2021-03-15T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T02:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404643"},"modified":"2021-03-15T08:53:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T03:23:17","slug":"airbus-targets-boeings-freight-fortress-with-a350-cargo-jet-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-targets-boeings-freight-fortress-with-a350-cargo-jet-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus targets Boeing&#8217;s freight fortress with A350 cargo jet: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (Reuters) &#8211; Airbus is canvassing airline support for a potential freighter version of its A350 passenger jet, targeting a key stronghold of U.S. rival Boeing as e-commerce lifts demand for transported goods, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The jet would be the first freighter spin-off of the latest generation of carbon-fibre jets and help stabilise output of wide-body jets that have been badly hit by the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But a launch depends on identifying enough buyers willing to take a punt on fickle cargo demand in the midst of the aviation industry&#8217;s worst downturn, which has trampled airline finances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are always looking at product developments but do not comment on specific programmes,&#8221; an Airbus spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (Reuters) &#8211; Airbus is canvassing airline support for a potential freighter version of its A350 passenger jet, targeting a key stronghold of U.S. rival Boeing as e-commerce lifts demand for transported goods, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The jet would be the first freighter spin-off of the latest generation of carbon-fibre jets and help stabilise output of wide-body jets that have been badly hit by the COVID-19 crisis. But a launch depends on identifying enough buyers willing to take a punt on fickle cargo demand in the midst of the aviation industry&#8217;s worst downturn, which has trampled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}