(Reuters) - Airbus has announced a freighter version of its wide-bodied A350 in a bid to loosen Boeing (NYSE:BA)'s decades-old dominance of the market for dedicated cargo planes.
This is how freighters from the two plane giants compare. It excludes older passenger planes that have been converted to freighters, a separate market also dominated by Boeing.
AIRBUS
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A350F
Entry into service: 2025
Maximum range: Unpublished
Maximum payload: 109 tonnes*
Engines: Rolls-Royce (OTC:RYCEY) Trent XWB
**List price: Unpublished
(A350-900 passenger jet $317.4 million
A350-1000 passenger jet $366.5 million
The aircraft will be between A350-900 and -1000 in length)
A330-200F
Entry into service: 2010
Maximum range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 kilometres)
Maximum payload: 70 tonnes (153,000 pounds)
Maximum take-off weight: 233 tonnes (513,700 pounds)
Cargo capacity: 31 pallets + 2 LD3 containers
Engines: Pratt & Whitney PW4000 or Rolls-Royce Trent 700
**List price: $241.7 million
Total delivered: 38
Unfilled orders: 0
BOEING
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747-8F
Entry into service: 2011
Maximum range: 4,265 nautical miles (7,898 kilometres)
Maximum payload: 137.8 tonnes (303,700 pounds)
Maximum take-off weight: 447.7 tonnes (987,000 pounds)
Cargo capacity: 46 pallets + 2 LD1 containers
Engines: General Electric (NYSE:GE) GEnx
List price: $419.2 million
Total delivered: 97
Unfilled orders: 10
777F
Entry into service: 2009
Maximum range: 4,970 nautical miles (9,204 kilometres)
Maximum payload: 102 tonnes (224,900 pounds)
Maximum take-off weight: 347.8 tonnes (766,800 pounds)
Cargo capacity: 37 pallets
Engines: General Electric GE90
List price: $352.3 million
Total delivered: 209
Unfilled orders: 46
767-300F
Entry into service: 1995
Maximum range: 3,255 nautical miles (6,028 kilometres)
Maximum payload: 52.5 tonnes (115,700 pounds)
Maximum take-off weight: 166.8 tonnes (412,000 pounds)
Cargo capacity: 31 pallets + 2 LD-2 containers
Engines: General Electric CF-6
List price: $220.3 million
Total delivered: 197
Unfilled orders: 53
777FX - possible new Boeing freighter
Entry into service: N/A
Maximum payload: 116 tonnes*
(Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said on Wednesday a 777X freighter, temporarily dubbed 777FX, could be its next programme)
*Unconfirmed estimates from industry sources
**Airbus last updated list prices in 2018