US freight forwarder BAX Global has launched twice-weekly all-cargo charter services between its Toledo, Ohio, hub and Sao Paulo, Brazil, using an Atlas Air Boeing 747-200 operated in partnership with Aerofloral, a Florida-based company specialising in transporting flowers between the USA and South America. BAX also offers northbound services from Brazil to Miami and Toledo. Qantas and Air New Zealand have boosted transpacific cargo capacity through new agreements with specialised cargo carriers. Qantas has contracted two more dedicated weekly Boeing 747 freight flights to Evergreen International, bringing its services to nine weekly. The services will originate in New York, operating via Los Angeles (where Qantas has established a major cargo hub), Honolulu and Nadi, Fiji. Air New Zealand has finalised a codesharing deal with Polar Air Cargo, which will lift its transpacific freight services from four to six weekly 747 cargo flights between the USA and the South Pacific. China Airlines has launched all-cargo services between Taipei and Sydney. Air Pacific will introduce three-times-weekly Singapore-Nadi services in December, using Boeing 737-800s. A nonstop service between Adelaide and Nadi will begin in August. From October, Midwest Express will replace its McDonnell Douglas DC-9 services between Milwaukee and Grand Rapids with a 33-seat Fairchild 328JET operated by its subsidiary Skyway (Midwest Express Connection) because of low load factors. Air Plus Comet has introduced services from Argentina to South American destinations, including Aruba and Cartagena in Colombia, San Jose in Costa Rica, Havana and Varadero in Cuba, Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, Cancun in Mexico and Margarita Island in Venezuela. TWA will introduce five weekly nonstop services between New York LaGuardia and Grand Bahama, Freeport, in December.
Source: Flight International
