- Boeing (BA -0.1%) is studying further expansion into the cargo market by offering conversions of its popular 737-800 passenger jet into freight haulers in a move aimed at express parcel firms, Randy Tinseth, VP of marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, tells Reuters.
- So far, only outside companies have carried out freighter conversions on earlier models of 737s, as well as some 757s.
- The proposal emerges after Airbus (OTCPK:EADSF, OTCPK:EADSY) relaunched plans to offer conversions of its competing A320 jet, forging a partnership with Singapore's ST Aerospace.