Finnair plans cargo freighter service to India

Nordic carrier Finnair plans to launch a full-fledged freighter service between Helsinki and Mumbai next year after seeing its cargo volumes grow quite impressively from India in recent years, despite the global slowdown.
The airline, which operates scheduled passenger services six-days-a-week between New Delhi and Helsinki, sees itself as an ideal cargo carrier out of India to serve both northern Europe and some member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
'Our experience so far with cargo out of New Delhi has been encouraging. We have space for at least 20 tonnes of cargo in each scheduled passenger flight, and that is being utilised quite well,' said Kuldip Singh Kharayat, area director for Finnair Cargo.
'It is for this reason that we managed to carry 5.4 percent higher volumes from New Delhi last year, despite a 16 percent cut in capacity. This year, so far, our volumes have grown 26 percent,' Kharayat, who overseas the Indian subcontinent, told IANS.
25/08/10 IANS/Sify.com

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Categories: Cargo Aug 2010, Foreign Aug 2010