China Airlines launches three new freight route

The new weekly service to Xiamen has started from September 4, Nanjing weekly service will start on 11 September.

Freighter services twice a week between Taoyuan and Fuzhou will be deployed by the end of September, helping China Airlines becomes the first airline to exploit cargo freighters from Fuzhou Changle International Airport to the city this opened in 1997.

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China Airlines has operated cargo flights across the Taiwan Strait to Shanghai-Pudong and Guangzhou.

The airline plans to operate a total of 12 weekly cargo flights across the strait to five different destinations on the mainland.

CAL currently has a fleet of 20 dedicated freighters B747-400F, and according to the International Air Transport Association, the airline is the international freight tenth largest in the world.