Kelowna Flightcraft (the company’s full name: Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd.) added recently two units of heavy equipment: DC-10 freighters. Apparently, this addition has boosted up Kelowna’s available capacity, and provided the company with a new ‘tool of trade’ enabling them to expand and grow business to a new level.
Interesting though, how companies, operating in a cargo sector of industry, are making money with equipment which is way older than that employed for passenger transportation.. Oh, a question like that may seem to sound silly, but anyway - it has been uttered 
I guess, there may be two answers for this question: a simple one (‘just because this business may be profitable’), and a detailed explanation of the case. If you try to pursue, and see the whole scope of the business, a starting point for discussion on the subject would have probably to deal with a matter of ‘aircraft life cycle’, - along with the general outlook for the market processes, and logistics.
Yes, it’s true, - aircraft that we would consider soon be appropriate for entering a contest titled ‘FIRST REGISTERED ONE HUNDRED YEAR OLD FLYING PLANE’ are still doing great, being in commercial service, - and earning money for companies flying them.
(to be continued..)
April 11th, 2009 at 2:55 am
They have had the two DC-10’s since Sept 2008
April 11th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Hi, Dave,
do you know where do they fly on DC-10s, by chance?
April 14th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I think they fly into Calgary from Hamilton and then onto Vancouver.