1st B777-200F air freighter joins Air China Cargo

 

The first B777-200F air freighter ordered by Air China Cargo from Boeing made a smooth landing on the Beijing Capital International Airport.
All-new B777-200F's joining is a major move of Air China Cargo to adjust its strategy and optimize its fleet structure, which has boosted the competitiveness of the company's air freight network and will create conditions for the company to further enhance its competitive role in the Chinese freight market and consolidate its market position.

As a new-generation long-distance air freighter with higher fuel efficiency, B777-200F can effectively enhance route operation performance.

According to its fleet plan, Air China Cargo ordered eight B777-200F air freighters from Boeing. Apart from the delivered one, the other seven units will be delivered in succession from 2014 to 2015.

Air China Cargo is making all-out efforts to step up the construction of its hubs in Beijing and Shanghai. B777-200F which has just arrived will be put into operation on long-distance European and American routes with Shanghai as the key operation base. According to sources, the first B777-200F air freighter will fly Frankfurt and Osaka routes every Wednesday. Air China Cargo now operates 32 European, American and Asian-Pacific freight flights weekly, with waypoints in cities like Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Chicago, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Osaka and Taipei.

B777-200F's joining in Air China Cargo's fleet marks that the company has opened up an era of operating B747, B777 and B757 simultaneously as China's only cargo airline carrying the national flag. The first B757 air freighter went into operation on November 22, 2013. Air China Cargo will own 15 air freighters by 2015, thus bringing into being an integrated airfreight network taking Beijing and Shanghai as hubs and radiating the world. With 284 airfreight routes, 145 waypoints and over 600 truck routes supplementing the air freighter network and the airliner bellyhold network worldwide, Air China Cargo has formed a perfect route network combining air and ground operations thereby delivering cargo to every corner of the world rapidly.