New offering in response to strong demand for e-commerce shipments and other general cargo such as garments. Cathay Pacific Cargo has announced the launch of a new scheduled freighter service between Hong Kong and Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, starting 5 January 2021.
The airline said the new flights will meet “the strong demand for shipments of e-commerce and other general cargo such as garments, providing our customers with reliable, efficient and direct air cargo services offering the high level of quality for which Cathay Pacific Cargo is known.”
The inaugural flight will be operated by a B747-400 ERF aircraft.
The service will operate once per week, every Tuesday, with a stopover in Dubai (DWC) on the return flight to Hong Kong, with the inaugural flight operated by a B747-400 ERF aircraft.
Last month, Cathay Pacific Cargo launched a seasonal cargo service between Hong Kong and Hobart in Australia, “providing an important airfreight lane for the export of fresh produce from Hobart to various parts of Asia via Hong Kong” while in September last year, it launched a temporary service to Pittsburgh in the US “to serve the seasonal upsurge in demand.”
In addition to operating a full freighter flight schedule, Cathay Pacific added that it has also been operating “thousands of pairs of cargo-only passenger flights, some with cargo loaded in the passenger cabins, and chartered hundreds of pairs of flights from its all-cargo subsidiary Air Hong Kong to provide additional air freight capacity.”
Source: Lloyd’s
