Air Canada was the first airline to start cargo-in-cabin flights in 2020. And two days ago, it announced that it has flown the last of them.
Photo: Air Canada
At the time, most of us assumed that it would be a very short-term fix, solving a very unique problem. The urgent need for protective equipment coincided with an idle fleet of passenger jets. Using the space in these jets to transport bulky but not very heavy (per volume) equipment, made sense. But it wasn’t quite as easy as that.
Some questioned the practical utility of cargo-in-cabin flights when Air Canada and other airlines started them. Purpose-built freighters can make much better use of their volume and can carry more cargo in weight. And yet, these flights lasted over two years. Air Canada claims to have made the first one, AC2284, on the 18th of April 2020. The last one was AC7272, on the 14th of May this year.
An Air Canada 767 undergoing freighter conversion. Image: Air Canada
But a lot has changed since they…
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