Most commercial freighters feature reinforced flooring, oversized cargo doors, and a flat deck for easy loading and unloading ...

NEW YORK — FedEx Corp.’s FedEx Express unit said Tuesday that it will buy 10 of the A380 aircraft planned by Europe’s Airbus Industrie in a deal valued at $2.3 billion at list prices.

The air cargo industry has been talking about it for the best part of a decade but a new super freighter version of the ultra-large A380 has been launched by Airbus and Boeing is embarked on the ...

The freighter version, the A380-800F will carry a payload of 150 tonnes (330,000lbs) over 10,400km/5,600nm. The A380 can be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines or GP7200 engines from The ...

FedEx ordered Airbus A380-800F aircraft, becoming the launch customer for the freighter version of the European superjumbo airliner. The U.S. package-hauler ordered 10 of the planes for an ...

He says the A380-800F freighter version in particular is attracting "a lot of interest". Only 10 of the orders taken to-date are firm, the rest being commitments. Leahy says these will be ...

The A380-800F, which is scheduled to enter service in the second quarter of 2008, will be, by far, the biggest all-cargo commercial transport. It... This content requires a subscription to one of ...

Airbus received a further major blow on Tuesday when FedEx said it canceled its order for 10 A380-800F freighter aircraft because of delivery delays, opting instead to buy planes from rival U.S ...

On Tuesday, Fedex ditched an order for the plane in favour of rival Boeing. The US logistics firm said it was cancelling its order for 10 Airbus A380-800F superjumbo freighters because of delivery ...

became the first customer to terminate an order for Airbus's flagship plane when it scrapped an agreement to buy 10 A380-800F aircraft. Instead, FedEx ordered 15 Boeing 777 Freighter aircraft and ...

It will take delivery of the A380-800F planes from 2008. It currently uses the MD-11 for intercontinental freight. Frederick Smith, head of FedEx Corp, said: "The A380 will be able to fly directly ...