Passenger airlines shift gears to meet critical cargo demand

Medical supplies from China are unloaded from the cabin of a Wizz Air Airbus A321 at Budapest Airport.
Credit: Gergely Botar/AFP via Getty Images
The morale of the dedicated professionals who make up the global airline industry was among the many victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. With passenger demand cratering, the world’s airlines were suddenly flying aircraft with rows and rows of vacant seats—or grounding aircraft altogether. As March...

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