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The UAE’s Etihad Cargo is increasing belly hold cargo capacity across its global network starting this month with the launch of its summer schedule, according to a press release. The airline is set to add 100 new passenger flights, with 23 additional weekly flights to eight new destinations and 77 weekly new passenger flights to existing flight routes, says the statement.
What they said: “The expansion of the airline’s passenger network, in combination with Etihad Cargo’s regular and charter freighter services, will substantially increase cargo capacity across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Introducing new routes and increased frequencies will reinforce the connections between Abu Dhabi and major global markets, effectively meeting the growing demand for cargo capacity,” Etihad Cargo VP Stanislas Brun said in the statement.
Customers will have access to increased hold cargo capacity across the following flight routes:
- GCC: Three weekly flights to Al-Qassim, KSA; Seven weekly flights to Kuwait City; Two weekly flights to Bahrain; Two weekly flights to Muscat; Five weekly flights to Doha.
- MENA: Seven weekly flights to Amman; Two weekly to Beirut; Five weekly flights to Cairo; Three new weekly flights to Antalya and 10 to 14 weekly flights to Istanbul, effective 22 July.
- Europe: Three weekly flights to Malaga; Two weekly flights to Nice, effective 2 June; Fourteen weekly flights to Athens, with two through Santorini and two via Mykonos; Three weekly flights to Dublin, effective 23 July.
- Asia: Four weekly flights to Bali; One weekly flight to Bangkok; 11 weekly flights to Colombo, Sri Lanka; Three weekly flights to Karachi, Pakistan; Four weekly flights to Seoul.
- India: Four weekly flights to Jaipur, two weekly flights to Ahmedabad, three weekly flights to Bengaluru, and one to Kolkata.
