Aircraft
Airbus Signals Intention To Build a Widebody Freighter Aircraft
The European airframer expresses the need to change the “unhealthy” market balance between itself and Boeing in the all-cargo aircraft market.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury visits his company's static display at the 2019 Paris Air Show. (Photo: Airbus)
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury visits his company's static display at the 2019 Paris Air Show. (Photo: Airbus)

Airbus CEO Gauillaume Faury remains tight-lipped about whether the company has started work on the development of a freighter version of the A350, though he did confirm Thursday that the European airframer wants to end Boeing’s dominance of the all-cargo aircraft market, a segment in which he admitted Airbus “traditionally has been weak”—particularly with its widebodies.


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