Also from late March, the airline is increasing its flights to Shanghai to three times weekly, with a new Friday service joining the existing departures on Wednesday and Sunday; all flights will continue to make a tech-stop in Krasnoyarsk in both directions.
Cargoitalia will continue to operate twice-weekly to New York JFK on Wednesday and Sunday (an earlier departure time for the previous Monday service), twice-weekly to Atlanta (via New York) arriving Monday and Thursday, and twice-weekly to Chicago on Thursday and Saturday.
Says Cargoitalia Commercial Director Roberto Gilardoni: 'The markets in both Italy and the Far East have been very supportive of our services since their launch. We are now in a second phase in which we are placing greater emphasis on service quality, with the addition of these extra flights to both Hong Kong and Shanghai. Our improved frequencies will enable us to target traffic which is more time-critical, and that offers higher yields.
'Together with a dramatic increase in charter work, we are now obtaining much higher utilisation for each of our three MD11 freighters. This will further strengthen our commercial position in 2011, and lay the foundations for future expansion.'
