UPS receives first cockpit-updated A300, aims for fleet-wide updates by end-2022. 2021-02-08T20:05:00Z By Jon Hemmerdinger. Express air shipment company UPS has received its first Airbus A300 ...

Source: UPS. The cockpit of a UPS Airbus A300 Freighter updated with Honeywell’s Primus Epic avionics suite. The A300F updates overlap with a UPS project to upgrade its Boeing 757 and 767 cockpits.

UPS is in the home stretch of a five-year project designed to add 20 years of useful life to its Airbus A300-600 freighter fleet, finalizing agreements with two maintenance shops that will install ...

UPS is upgrading a total of 52 Airbus A300-600s in its fleet with Honeywell Aerospace Primus Epic avionics over the next few years. ... The cockpit of the first upgraded A300 to be operated by UPS.

Despite the multiple benefits of a cockpit upgrade, it remains uncertain whether the recent contract for Airbus to retrofit UPS’s A300-600 freighters is signaling a trend. The A300-600 is an ...

Over time, structural fatigue increases the required maintenance frequency, downtime, and costs associated with operating an older aircraft fleet, meaning that Airbus A300-600 jets cost UPS more ...

Airbus and UPS completed (03-Apr-2023) a cockpit upgrade project for 52 A300-600F aircraft and two simulators.The final aircraft to be retrofitted with new avionics was delivered to UPS in Mar-2023.

Before boarding the last flight of his life, UPS cargo pilot Capt. Cerea Beal Jr. confided to a colleague: “These schedules over the past several years are killing me.” ...

Two pilots have been killed after a cargo plane crashed on its approach to an airport just before dawn. The UPS A300 aircraft ended up in an open field just outside an airport in Birmingham ...

United Parcel Service Inc. has ordered 10 A380 super-jumbo freighter aircraft made by Airbus. In a related decision, Atlanta-based UPS (NYSE: UPS), which bases its UPS Airlines division in ...