Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) is proud to stutter the birth of contemporary Boeing 747-400ERF or BCF freighter provider, operated by Martinair, from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) to Hong Kong (HKG) by assignment of Dubai (DWC).
After an absence of nearly nine years, KLM/Martinair freighters will return to HKG with a brand new provider, bettering our cargo operations and offering our global customers higher flexibility and ability.
The inaugural flight is scheduled to fade on 19 September 2024. The provider will first and main operate thrice weekly, increasing to four weekly flights from the originate of our winter schedule on 27 October 2024. The flights to Hong Kong will fade Amsterdam on Monday*, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
The return flights fade Hong Kong on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. This new provider will present an spectacular ability of 110 tonnes per flight, facilitating seamless cargo motion across key international hubs and offering a big vary of onward connections to the Americas and Africa by assignment of our Amsterdam Schiphol hub.
This new provider allows us to present unparalleled flexibility across the routes AMS/DWC, AMS/HKG, and DWC/HKG, besides return flights from HKG/DWC, HKG/AMS, and DWC/AMS. They’ll very a lot beef up our freighter footprint in Asia and are a welcome addition to our flights from Paris CDG to Mumbai (BOM) and Beijing (PEK). By bettering connectivity and expanding our reach, we procedure to motivate our customers better and facilitate increase in these extreme markets.
As section of our community technique, some of our contemporary routes in Latin The US will be suspended. We are able to, then over again, proceed to operate our freighter companies and products to Bogotá (BOG) three cases per week by assignment of Miami (MIA).
AFKLMP Cargo also stays steadfast in its commitment to serving the Caribbean and Latin The US by our wide abdominal community. We offer 145 weekly flights to 24 locations, making obvious our customers in these areas proceed to receive genuine and environment pleasant cargo companies and products.
Adriaan den Heijer, EVP Cargo at Air France-KLM and managing director Martinair, commented: “In the East Asian market, the e-commerce section is growing gradually, utilizing elevated quiz for environment pleasant and genuine air freight solutions. The introduction of this new Boeing 747 freighter provider is the biggest step in including main deck ability to our wide abdominal community. This growth no longer very finest strengthens our freighter footprint in Asia nevertheless also affords more alternatives and higher flexibility to our customers. By bettering our connectivity and broadening our reach, we’re better positioned to toughen the growth and evolving desires of our global buyer execrable.”