American Airlines (AA) has increased flights from Dublin to Chicago from four times per week to daily, in its summer schedule.

In addition, from June 10th, all services will be upgraded from B757 to B767-300 aircraft, boosting capacity to 12,000kgs per flight.

Says Ian McCool, MD of IAM, which is American Airlines Cargo's Irish GSSA: 'The American summer schedule is always welcomed here, because it adds frequency as well as capacity. This is just as important with high-value and urgent shipments such as the pharmamaceuticals traffic that now dominates Irish exports.

'An additional bonus is that the AA services to Chicago offer the earliest arrival time from Ireland, opening up the opportunity for same-day transfers to 46 'destinations throughout the AA network.'