ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the capacity is provided by airlines and the various types of aircraft that they operate. Aircraft age is related to both the cost of used passenger models and fuel and maintenance costs. Freighter aircraft are produced in many different configurations, and payload penalties may be experienced using converted aircraft or those with different engines. Its payload is significantly enhanced by being fitted with Pratt and Whitney engines. Unit Load Devices (ULDs) can be either pallets or containers. The Ilyushin company of Russia has been manufacturing aircraft from the days of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1933 to the present. In the medium sized category it produces the Ilyushin Il-76, which carries a payload of around 50 tonnes over 3,700 km. The major Western-built freights that are no longer offered as new aircraft are from Boeing. The Il-96-400T is the cargo version of the Russian wide-bodied Il-96-300 aircraft first built in 1993.
