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Airbus has been largely absent from the new-build freighter market, leaving Boeing effectively with a monopoly.
 
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With prospects for the launch of an all-new Western-made widebody essentially nonexistent well into the 2020s, the emerging focus for the next big-jet battleground is pivoting toward freighters—the one market sector to see any lasting benefit from the COVID-19 global pandemic..
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