{"id":2179,"date":"2018-03-20T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2018-03-20T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T13:41:19","slug":"airbus-weighs-new-a330-cargo-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Weighs New A330 Cargo Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Airbus SE is considering building a freighter version of its slow-selling A330neo widebody, spurred by requests from potential customers amazon.com\u00a0and United Parcel service, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"hardwall\" data-position=\"1\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">The interest from Amazon and UPS could rekindle a competition between Airbus and Boeing\u00a0as the global air-cargo market rebounds from a decade-long slump. Production of the popular Boeing 767 freighter has been restricted as the U.S. manufacturer focuses on a military tanker variant that is more than a year behind schedule, the people said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-position=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-position=\"1\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-position=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-position=\"1\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-19\/airbus-is-said-to-weigh-new-a330-cargo-model-spurred-by-amazon?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bd&amp;utm_campaign=headline&amp;cmpId=yhoo.headline&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Airbus Weighs New A330 Cargo Model<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div data-position=\"1\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2180\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a330F-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a330F-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a330F-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a330F.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div data-position=\"1\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus SE is considering building a freighter version of its slow-selling A330neo widebody, spurred by requests from potential customers amazon.com\u00a0and United Parcel service, according to people familiar with the matter. The interest from Amazon and UPS could rekindle a competition between Airbus and Boeing\u00a0as the global air-cargo market rebounds from a decade-long slump. Production of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,799],"tags":[269,739,47,201,41,203,652,541],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","tag-269","tag-a330","tag-airbus","tag-amazon-com","tag-boeing","tag-freighter","tag-united-parcel-service","tag-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}