Transfer flight
As a transfer flight or transfer flight (Austrian term), engl. Ferry flight , also known as empty flight in the commercial sector , is the term used to describe the flight of an aircraft that is used solely to move the aircraft .
Transfer flights are carried out, for example, to transfer an aircraft to its new location or when maintenance or renovation takes place at another airport . In aviation, ferry flights are also used to replace failed aircraft at short notice if there is no reserve aircraft available on site.
For transatlantic overpasses, the seats are usually removed or not installed at all or additional tanks are installed on smaller machines to increase the range. Without a transfer flight, the aircraft would otherwise have to be dismantled for transport in the container and reassembled and certified after arriving at the customer, which would be more expensive. The transport of unpackaged (not dismantled) small aircraft on ships is prohibited because of the aggressive sea water.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Niels Klußmann, Arnim Malik: Lexicon of aviation . 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-49095-1 , pp. 305 ( older edition in excerpts in the Google book search).