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central point for its first-ever round-the-world cargo flight, launched in mid-July. The twice-weekly service sees Cathay deploy a B747-400F from Hong Kong to Anchorage, Chicago, Amsterdam and Dubai, before returning to Hong Kong. “Chicago is a great gateway for this service and we
expect the flights to do quite well,” said Stephen Wong, Cathay Pacific’s vice president for cargo, Americas. “We’ll be helping businesses from throughout the Midwest get their products to markets in Europe and the Middle East.” Cathay Pacific is increasing its Hong Kong-based
cargo operations team by 33 percent to handle the new flights. “Now, whether your cargo needs are westbound or eastbound, Cathay Pacific Cargo merits serious consideration given our expanded services,” said Douglas Wahl, Cathay Pacific’s locally-based cargo manager. “We can also arrange charters for customers who need service beyond our regularly scheduled flights.” Earlier this year, in response to the faster than expected
return of global cargo demand, Cathay Pacific increased its weekly freighter service to Miami and Houston to four and five flights a week, respectively. In addition to the major US gateways of Chicago,
Houston and Miami, Cathay Pacific Cargo also provides freighter services to Hong Kong from Anchorage, Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York JFK, San
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Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. The carrier also offers bellyhold capacity on its widebody passenger aircraft that provide daily operations to Hong Kong from Los Angeles, New York JFK, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. Also operating a round-the-world freighter link is
Luxembourg-based all-cargo carrier Cargolux. The airline has been running a twice-weekly B747-400 freighter service since April this year that departs from its home hub in Luxembourg via Baku to Hong Kong before flying transpacific to Chicago and New York and then returning transatlantic to Luxembourg. Global air freight and logistics services provider UPS has added six weekly flights to Hong Kong and
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