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May 06, 2014 (newstodate): The Swedish cargo and passenger carrier Amapola Flyg is currently awaiting the conversion of two Fokker 50 aircraft to freighters with large cargo doors.
-We have been operating two such Fokker 50 freighters before, leased in from another operator, but with own aircraft we aim at digging deeper into the expanding market for this capacity as requested by companies in not least the oil and minerals exploration and drilling industry, says Lars Jordahn, Amapola Flyg CEO.
-We expect the first converted large cargo door Fokker F50 aircraft to be delivered by August 2014, with the second aircraft to follow in 2015, in both cases on a contract with the Dutch company Aircraft Conversions while the actual conversion is performed by a US provider.
-Postal flights remain our basic core contract business, but we are also eying the potentials in ad-hoc operations, both within the cargo and the passenger segments. One Fokker 40 is actually now on an ACMI contract with Directflyg in Sweden, but we are open to ACMI contracts on a worldwide scale.
-In Amapola's fleet now are 10 Fokker 50 freighters as well as the single Fokker 50 passenger aircraft, but our owner, the Swedish investment company Salenia AB has taken over the Latvian carrier airBaltic's former fleet of Fokker aircraft that are now stored at our premises at Malmo Sturup Airport.
-We may thus take in more Fokker 50 aircraft for cargo conversion or in passenger versions as warranted by the markets - and this is of course a crucial asset, says Mr Jordahn.
-We have been operating two such Fokker 50 freighters before, leased in from another operator, but with own aircraft we aim at digging deeper into the expanding market for this capacity as requested by companies in not least the oil and minerals exploration and drilling industry, says Lars Jordahn, Amapola Flyg CEO.
-We expect the first converted large cargo door Fokker F50 aircraft to be delivered by August 2014, with the second aircraft to follow in 2015, in both cases on a contract with the Dutch company Aircraft Conversions while the actual conversion is performed by a US provider.
-Postal flights remain our basic core contract business, but we are also eying the potentials in ad-hoc operations, both within the cargo and the passenger segments. One Fokker 40 is actually now on an ACMI contract with Directflyg in Sweden, but we are open to ACMI contracts on a worldwide scale.
-In Amapola's fleet now are 10 Fokker 50 freighters as well as the single Fokker 50 passenger aircraft, but our owner, the Swedish investment company Salenia AB has taken over the Latvian carrier airBaltic's former fleet of Fokker aircraft that are now stored at our premises at Malmo Sturup Airport.
-We may thus take in more Fokker 50 aircraft for cargo conversion or in passenger versions as warranted by the markets - and this is of course a crucial asset, says Mr Jordahn.