Cathay around the World Cargo Flights
 

Cathay has annouced around the world cargo service using B744 freighters.

Is there a market for such a service?

Does this entail cabatoge? Ex. can they carry cargo from the USA to Dubai?

I have the impression that Cathay has "operational" excellence.

Cathay around the World Cargo Flights
 

Nothing new under the sun... :hmm:

No.

Quite likely yes.

The only 'cabotage' sector is ANC-ORD, and even that would be allowed to pickup at ANC for CHI if was part of a 'flight interchange' .

As you say, nowt new - run west-to-east give optimal payload/range blah blah blah

effectively it illustrates that lots of frtrs asia-USA full, USA-asia empty, so top up with AMS cargo, hope to pickup some more AMS cgo at CHI, pickup a bit of MEast cgo as well, hope to fill up a bit more at AMS, maybe you can get your lf up

Cabotage is transportation of goods or persons between points in the same country (sort of ....). So USA - DXB is not cabotage.

Country in this context can include overseas territories and dependencies, for example between the UK and some of the Caribbean Islands, Gibraltar, Falklands. Another example woud be between mainland France and its overseas terrories and departments, known as DOM/TOMs, such as Martinique, New Caledonia, etc.

Singapore Cargo has been doing round the world cargo ops for a long time.

Eg: SIN-PVG-ANC-DFW-BRU-BLR-SIN

so has Qatar
So has QF
So has FedEx
So did LH

Asiana also does RTW through the US and BRU.

What routing?
Not aware of this one either. All I knew of was the "Round-The-Pacific" SYD-PVG-ANC-ORD-(TOL-)HNL-SYD route.
I was under the impression's FedEx RTW flights required a change of plane either in DEL or HKG.

CV used to (maybe still do) LUX-SIN-MEL-AKL-LAX-LUX

CV still do the rotation mentioned above and have done so for many years. Additionally in the past few months they have started 4 rotations a week LUX-(Middle East)-HKG-ANC-ORD-JFK-LUX