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18th Sep 2000, 16:34
This should make things interesting:
From "Air Transport Intelligence"
Cathay adds capacity with Southern Air 747F lease
Nicholas Ionides, Singapore (18Sep00, 03:53 GMT, 319 words)
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways has added capacity to its dedicated cargo operation through the wet-lease of a Boeing 747-200 freighter from Southern Air for use on US services.
Southern Air, established following the demise of Southern Air Transport, said in a recent US Department of Transport filing that it had been wet-leasing a 747-200F to Cathay since 1 August for scheduled flights between Hong Kong and both Chicago and Los Angeles.
It requested in its filing permission to extend the arrangement with Cathay as flights would continue until 31 July 2002. Eastbound technical stops are made at Seoul in South Korea and westbound stops are made at Anchorage in the USA.
A Cathay spokeswoman confirms from Hong Kong that a contract was signed with Columbus, Ohio-based Southern Air on 1 May but the deal was not announced. She says Southern is operating twice-weekly between Hong Kong and Los Angeles and weekly between Hong Kong and Chicago.
Last week Cathay took delivery of a new 747-400F of its own from Boeing which is the first from a batch of three ordered over the past year.
It has lifted the airline's freighter fleet to ten aircraft, including three 747-200Fs that are on lease to 75%-owned Air Hong Kong. Cathay now operates three 747-400Fs and four 747-200Fs on its own, and its two remaining 747-400Fs on order are to be delivered in April and August next year.
The addition of the latest 747-400F has allowed Cathay to add new dedicated cargo routes to Penang in Malaysia, San Francisco in the USA and New Delhi in India. With the inauguration of the new services this month the airline has expanded its dedicated cargo route network to 19 cities.
Cathay has been working to expand its cargo operation in recent years. In 1999 cargo sales represented 27.3% of total revenue and this percentage increased in the first half of this year to 28.5%.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
From "Air Transport Intelligence"
Cathay adds capacity with Southern Air 747F lease
Nicholas Ionides, Singapore (18Sep00, 03:53 GMT, 319 words)
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways has added capacity to its dedicated cargo operation through the wet-lease of a Boeing 747-200 freighter from Southern Air for use on US services.
Southern Air, established following the demise of Southern Air Transport, said in a recent US Department of Transport filing that it had been wet-leasing a 747-200F to Cathay since 1 August for scheduled flights between Hong Kong and both Chicago and Los Angeles.
It requested in its filing permission to extend the arrangement with Cathay as flights would continue until 31 July 2002. Eastbound technical stops are made at Seoul in South Korea and westbound stops are made at Anchorage in the USA.
A Cathay spokeswoman confirms from Hong Kong that a contract was signed with Columbus, Ohio-based Southern Air on 1 May but the deal was not announced. She says Southern is operating twice-weekly between Hong Kong and Los Angeles and weekly between Hong Kong and Chicago.
Last week Cathay took delivery of a new 747-400F of its own from Boeing which is the first from a batch of three ordered over the past year.
It has lifted the airline's freighter fleet to ten aircraft, including three 747-200Fs that are on lease to 75%-owned Air Hong Kong. Cathay now operates three 747-400Fs and four 747-200Fs on its own, and its two remaining 747-400Fs on order are to be delivered in April and August next year.
The addition of the latest 747-400F has allowed Cathay to add new dedicated cargo routes to Penang in Malaysia, San Francisco in the USA and New Delhi in India. With the inauguration of the new services this month the airline has expanded its dedicated cargo route network to 19 cities.
Cathay has been working to expand its cargo operation in recent years. In 1999 cargo sales represented 27.3% of total revenue and this percentage increased in the first half of this year to 28.5%.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news