Emirates cargo flights from Sharjah

[newscaster]

Website schedule list DXB-SHJ-LOS-NBO and DXB-SHJ-LOS-NBO-AMS-FRA with 747-400F, but SHJ is not included in revised route map, any idea about these service?

[bigduke6]

ACMI via Atlas Air. Had been doing it intermittently for about a year? But may not ave actually been flown every week, depending on cargo volumes.

[Da Do Ron Ron]

Would not DXB-SHJ be operated by a road feeder service.

Got to be the shortest air route, gear up, gear down .............

[newscaster]

747 flies in addition to truck/road feeder service. Why are Atlas flights listed on EK schedules with EK flight numbers if teh servcie is not being operated for Emirates?

[anothercargopilot]

Newscaster,

EK holds long term ACMI contracts for multiple Atlas 747-400F (also TNT too). Emirates schedules the plane 100% of the time unless there is a soft spot in flying which Atlas marketing can then make an agreement to use the aircraft temporarily to fly an Atlas flight. Essentially these planes are fully scheduled by Emirates and Atlas/TNT flies wherever and whenever they are told to by Emirates. And with a long term ACMI agreement, the customer has the option to paint the aircraft in their livery or leave it in Atlas/TNT colors. Hence EK painted 747-400F's (on both Atlas and TNT planes).

Back to DXB-NBO. Been scheduled in one form or another for a LONG time now. Whether DXB-JNB-NBO......or......DXB-EDL-NBO......or....DXB-LLW-EBB-NBO. Don't know why, but sometimes the cargo is out of SHJ. So periodically interchange SHJ for DXB as the originator. Therefore DXB-SHJ or vice versa is just positioning, generally NO cargo.

Flights from NBO are always to AMS. Emirates Cargo has a long term contract to deliver roses from the Kenyan flower growers NBO to AMS.

Hope that answers your questions.