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Apr 01, 2014 (newstodate): Star Air, owned by the Danish A.P. Moller Maersk Group, has now taken delivery of its first Boeing 767-300 freighter on a lease agreement with GECAS.
The new aircraft joins the fleet of 11 Boeing 767-200SF freighters that have been the exclusive aircraft type used by the airline since March 2005 when it took in the first unit to gradually replace the fleet of Boeing 757-200 freighters then used.
The Boeing 767-300F is capable of carrying 24 pallet on the main deck as well as up to 30 LD2 containers on the lower deck, thus offering more capacity than the Boeing 767-200SF and operating more cost-efficiently than its predecessor also thanks to the winglets.
As always, the carrier maintains a tight news curfew, but the addition of the new aircraft - the first with winglets - indicates that Star Air has secured a new 10-year period with UPS that first contracted the carrier to operate on European routes, based at Cologne Airport, in 1993.
The new aircraft joins the fleet of 11 Boeing 767-200SF freighters that have been the exclusive aircraft type used by the airline since March 2005 when it took in the first unit to gradually replace the fleet of Boeing 757-200 freighters then used.
The Boeing 767-300F is capable of carrying 24 pallet on the main deck as well as up to 30 LD2 containers on the lower deck, thus offering more capacity than the Boeing 767-200SF and operating more cost-efficiently than its predecessor also thanks to the winglets.
As always, the carrier maintains a tight news curfew, but the addition of the new aircraft - the first with winglets - indicates that Star Air has secured a new 10-year period with UPS that first contracted the carrier to operate on European routes, based at Cologne Airport, in 1993.