Every Saturday, CLA’s new Boeing 747-8 Freighter will offer customers 135 tonnes of cargo capacity per week from Europe to the Middle East and Hong Kong, and a direct Hong Kong-London Stansted service, which arrives back into the UK every Monday.
This latest new route follows the launch of CargoLogicAir’s first scheduled operation in August, twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 flights from Stansted airport to Mexico City International airport via Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta. This service also incorporates stops in Houston, Frankfurt and Abu Dhabi.
Steve Harvey, Chief Commercial Officer of CargoLogicAir, said of the first scheduled route: “Our UK-Mexico service has exceeded our expectations in terms of its operational and commercial performance to the extent that we are now looking to add a third weekly frequency on the route in early 2018 to support the level of business investment and market growth in Mexico.”
CLA’s CEO, Dmitry Grishin, commented on the latest scheduled service. “The launch of our new weekly service from London via Frankfurt, Dubai World Central, Hong Kong and back to the UK is the result of talking to our customers about the routes where they need additional capacity. Our strategy remains on track and we are now actively looking to add a fourth Boeing 747 freighter to our fleet early next year, in line with our business plan to be operating a fleet of five 747Fs by the end of our third year of operations,” he asserted. “We remain extremely confident in the sustainability of the all-cargo market and the very positive commitments and feedback we are receiving from our customers.”
