The Hindu Business Line : Cathay Pacific freighter service to link Chennai

Cathay Pacific Airways plans to operate a twice-weekly freighter service linking Hong Kong to Mumbai and to Chennai for the first time. It will be the airline's first direct freighter service from India to Hong Kong. According to information available on the airline's Web site, India is the one of the world's fastest growing cargo markets with an increasingly affluent customer base hungry for products made in China. Chennai will open up a new market for the airline. The new service will operate every Tuesday and Friday effective June 2 with a B 747-200F freighter. Currently, the airline's freighter service include a three times weekly flight to Mumbai which continues to Dubai and Paris and then returns to Hong Kong via Dubai. The thrice-weekly Delhi service continues to London and then comes back to Hong Kong via Milan.

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