GERMANY's 65-year-old low-cost passenger carrier condor Airlines is converting its entire long-haul fleet to the Airbus 330 neo aircraft and aggressively courting US air freight shippers to Europe, reports the American Journal of Transportation.
The airline is pitching forwarders with per flight maximum belly payloads of 15.8 tons, as it upgrades its long-haul fleet of 310-seat wide-bodied airplanes to accommodate a new 30-seat lie-down business class and a 64-seat premium economy class.
The transformation to the A-330 neo, replacing its smaller, older 767s, will give Condor 50 per cent more lift per flight, said cargo chief Bernd Bechtel. The carrier has phased out its fleet of Boeing 747s on its long-haul routes.
Condor, which focuses largely on leisure markets, also entered the San Francisco market on a seasonal basis in May with six weekly flights from SFO to Frankfurt through October.
This is the second year in a row the airline has added the Bay Area to its routes giving forwarders and 3PLs a non-stop option into Europe and beyond, noted Robert van de Weg, chief commercial officer for ECS Group, the Paris-based general sales and service that represents Condor in 52 countries.
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The airline is pitching forwarders with per flight maximum belly payloads of 15.8 tons, as it upgrades its long-haul fleet of 310-seat wide-bodied airplanes to accommodate a new 30-seat lie-down business class and a 64-seat premium economy class.
The transformation to the A-330 neo, replacing its smaller, older 767s, will give Condor 50 per cent more lift per flight, said cargo chief Bernd Bechtel. The carrier has phased out its fleet of Boeing 747s on its long-haul routes.
Condor, which focuses largely on leisure markets, also entered the San Francisco market on a seasonal basis in May with six weekly flights from SFO to Frankfurt through October.
This is the second year in a row the airline has added the Bay Area to its routes giving forwarders and 3PLs a non-stop option into Europe and beyond, noted Robert van de Weg, chief commercial officer for ECS Group, the Paris-based general sales and service that represents Condor in 52 countries.
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