US approves ATI to operate cargo flights on APAC path for DHL
Air Transportation International of the US has begun flying a good Boeing 767-300 converted freighter for DHL from Hong Kong to Sydney via Guam to support delivery of general exhibit freight and relief supplies for the COVID-19 response in Australia.
Separately, sister airline ABX Air deployed a 767 cargo plane to aid DHL’s air network somewhere between Chicago O’Hare AIRPORT TERMINAL to Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany via DHL’s UK hub at East Midlands Airport, parent organization Air Transport Services Group announced about July 6.
ATSG’s leasing arm offers the aircraft to DHL, which hired the two aircraft subsidiaries to operate them in its behalf. Total, Wilmington, Ohio-based ATSG provides 16 of the Boeing freighters hauling DHL Exhibit shipments all over the world.
The US Division of Transportation in late June granted Air Transport International a permit to use a scheduled all-cargo route from Hong Kong to Guam for just two years.
The all-cargo carrier is a big provider of devoted contract carriage and cargo charters to airlines, logistics providers and governments. The DOT authority permits Air Transport International to supply freighter provider up to four occasions per week.
Air Transport International sought an exemption from the statutory requirement of a everlasting certificate of operating authority for the Hong Kong-Guam route. Air support to Hong Kong is normally governed by a 1997 bilateral aviation arrangement. ATI currently has permission to serve Australia by virtue of its blanket certificate beneath the US-Australia Start Skies agreement.
The airline won't carry commercial cargo from Sydney to Hong Kong because there are no Fifth Freedom rights involved, which are essential for commercial businesses between two foreign countries on a flight that either originates in, or is destined for, the carrier’s home country.
ATSG’s business has taken off with the demand for freighters during the coronavirus pandemic, and the company has been deploying more converted 767 passenger planes to help customers in the growing e-commerce sector.
The 767 is a medium-size widebody aircraft suited for e-commerce and regional express operations.
Several weeks ago, Amazon stated it would lease twelve 767-300 converted freighters from ATSG and hire the company to fly the planes within its large delivery network.
DHL has been adding more atmosphere potential to its network to meet growth in e-commerce site visitors since the start of COVID-19 pandemic seeing that more persons stay at home in order to avoid spreading the disease.
