Korean Air utilizza aerei passeggeri e rotte per il trasporto merci

Mar 16🔹The Post virusCorona World ☀️
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Korean Air utilises passenger aircraft and routes for cargo

Korean Air is using passenger aircraft as freighters on suspended routes, as it seeks “new opportunities in the market amid unpredictable changes such as suspensions of flights and the Usa restrictions on European countries.

🔹 On 13 March, the flag carrier transported emergency supplies and agricultural products from South Korea to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, plying a route that has been suspended from 3 March.

🔹 ☀️ This was flown on a passenger Airbus A330-300 capable of carrying 20 tonnes of cargo.

🔹 Korean Air will also deploy more cargo flights to Qingdao, China from 21 March, using passenger aircraft that it says have been idle from 25 February.

🔹 It plans to expand destinations and cargo types


Last week, the carrier confirmed that 🔹 ☀️ 100 of 145 passenger aircraft in its fleet have been grounded, and this includes ☀️ • 10 Airbus A380s • that will remain out of service until 25 April.

It says in the latest statement: - Flight suspensions and reductions due to Covid-19 have led airlines to park passenger aircraft at airports.

The entry restrictions of many countries on passengers departing from [South] Korea has led to the suspension of 89 of Korean Air’s 124 routes as of March 13.

🔹 The number of operating international flights has been reduced to approximately 86% following a decrease in demand.

🔹 Korean states that Hanjin Group chairman - Walter Cho, proposed ///// the idea of using passenger aircraft as freighters to overcome the current crisis, as this would cut down expenses and support import and export Companies ///// .

Cho said: - As the Covid-19 situation becomes increasingly dire, it is important for us to take a new perspective when looking at the market.

🔹 - If we use the cargo compartment of our parked passenger aircraft, not only can we respond to the changing demand of cargo transport by diversifying our cargo routes, but we can also reduce aircraft parking fees.

🔹 He added: The business Strategies of passenger and cargo should be shifted as the trans-Atlantic [air routes are] now blocked. We must flexibly respond to market demand.


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