Dallas/Fort Worth Airport announced that Cathay Pacific Cargo recently added another flight, this one running exclusively between North Texas and Hong Kong.
Cathay Pacific Cargo, which started its newest flight on Monday, now has eight flights a week out of North Texas, making it the largest cargo carrier at D/FW Airport, Joe Lopano told board members this morning at their monthly meeting.
The other seven flights run from Hong Kong to D/FW to Atlanta, and back to Hong Kong.
-David
Last week we told you about the new Lufthansa Cargo flights starting up in January between Mexico City and Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. We now have a little more information on what will be on those flights.
Thomas Rohrmeier, cargo sales manager in Texas for Lufthansa gave us a sampling.
Mexico City to D/FW to Frankfurt:
Frankfurt to D/FW to Mexico City:
In case you were wondering, there will be no horses flown down to the slaughter houses in Mexico. That's because of a new law passed within the past year in Texas preventing the transportation of horses for human consumption.
"Before that, there was actually a lot of horse meat going in and out of Texas and through Texas," Rohrmeier said. "Ever since (the court ruling), no more of that."
-David
Starting in January, Lufthansa Cargo will add two weekly cargo flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Mexico City.
The German carrier currently flies three weekly cargo flights between D/FW and its hub in Frankfurt, Germany. But starting next year, the company will drop down to two flights a week for its D/FW-Frankfurt service.
The other two cargo flights will go Mexico City to D/FW to Frankfurt. The MD-11F cargo plane will then turn around go just the opposite way: Frankfurt to D/FW to Mexico City.
The planes have a capacity for 85 tons.
Lufthansa also flies a separate passenger plane once a day between D/FW Airport and Frankfurt.
The only other way you could send cargo shipments between Mexico City and D/FW Airport is on an Air France cargo jet, but that only offers direct flights in one direction: from Mexico City to D/FW.
Lufthansa Cargo has boosted its cargo tonnage more than 22 percent in the first eight months of the 2007, compared to the year earlier, according to a statement from D/FW Airport.
-David
Cathay Pacific Cargo is adding another flight later this month, making its Asian service a daily operation.
Joe Lopano, the executive vice president of marketing for D/FW Airport, told the airport's board of directors this morning about the addition.
Cathay Pacific has more than doubled its service in less than two years it's been flying from D/FW. In November 2005, it started up with three cargo flights a week out of D/FW.
Tuesday through Sunday, the daily flights run from Hong Kong to D/FW Airport to Atlanta and back to Hong Kong. The Monday flight will run just the opposite route.
-David
Kitty Hawk, an air cargo carrier headquartered at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, is exploring “strategic alternatives” for its future that could include a sale of the company.
The firm, which emerged from bankruptcy five years ago, said in a statement this morning that it has hired Raymond James & Associates to help it evaluate its prospects.
“The board of directors will work with the management team and its advisors to explore and evaluate the company’s strategic alternatives and determine the course of action it believes is in the best interest of its stockholders,” the statement read.
Readers may recall that we reported last April on a management shakeup at the airline that saw CEO Robert Zoller, Chairman Gerald Gitner and three board members resign.
Zoller was instrumental in resurrecting ValuJet, and transforming it into AirTran, after that airline's crash in the Florida Everglades.
In addition to a possible sale, the company is also considering raising capital, altering its operations, selling some assets or divisions, or making no changes.
The carrier provides overnight air and ground shipping that’s considered “mission critical,” and often includes items that need special handling that can’t be shipped on the major cargo companies like UPS. It has a fleet of Boeing 737 and 727 cargo planes, and has a warehouse and Customs clearance facility in Fort Wayne, Ind., where it operates a hub.
It lost $14 million last year, and reported a loss of $11 million for the first quarter of 2007.
Shares of Kitty Hawk (ticker: KHK) were trading at 37 cents Thursday morning, up 1 cent.
- Trebor
