LOUISVILLE, Ky. — United Parcel Service Inc. said Tuesday that it has ordered 60 Airbus Industrie A300-600 freighters for $6 billion, taking options for 50 more. The order, UPS’ biggest, will ...

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 ...

The Airbus A300 cargo plane went down before dawn; The pilot and co-pilot were killed; The NTSB is investigating the cause of the crash; A UPS cargo plane slammed into a field and burst into ...

Airbus completed the upgrade and flight testing of the first A300. UPS is looking to choose two companies to do the modifications, which take about three weeks, on the remaining 51 aircraft.

United Parcel Service UPS Airlines is to undertake a major flight deck upgrade of its fleet of 52 Airbus A300-600R freighters. A new instrumentation package—announced May 15 by UPS, Airbus and ...

UPS followed up with an additional firm order for 60 of the Airbus jets earlier this year. It also placed options for 50 more. The firm UPS orders will extend production of the A300-600 until at ...

UPS, the world's largest package-delivery company, has ordered 10 A380 superjumbos from Airbus, ... However, UPS also said it was reducing a previous order of Airbus's smaller A300 aircraft ...

There’s a lot we still don’t know about yesterday morning’s crash of a UPS Airbus A300 in Birmingham, Alabama. But what we do know is both troubling and at the same time eerily reminiscent ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- UPS said Monday that it has ordered 10 A380 super-jumbo jets from Airbus . The company said that it has also amended a previous order with Airbus for A300 aircraft. The ...

The Airbus A300 was manufactured from 1971 to 2007 and remains in service, and 561 were built. It was able to typically seat 247 passengers in a two-class configuration while operating routes of ...

UPS strategy gives old planes new life. Courier retrofitting 52 Airbus A300s. February 7, 2021 at 2:49 a.m. by Bloomberg ...