Hong Kong: Cathay Pacific Airways announced here Wednesday that it will further expand its world cargo network with a new twice weekly freighter service linking Hong Kong to the fast-growing Indian cities of Mumbai ( Bombay) and, for the first time, Chennai (Madras).
The new service will operate every Tuesday and Friday from June 2 with a Boeing 747-200F freighter. It will also be the airline's first direct freighter service from India to Hong Kong. Current Cathay Pacific freighter services to India include a three-times weekly flight to Mumbai which continues to Dubai and Paris then returns to Hong Kong via Dubai.
The three-times-weekly Delhi service continues to London, then heads back to Hong Kong via Milan.
30/03/06 Xinhua/People's Daily Online, China
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