DUBAI WORLD CENTRAL AIRPORT WILL BE AIR FRANCE- KLM-MARTINAIR CARGO’S NEW MIDDLE EAST FREIGHTER HUB
On request of customers, Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo have started operating 14 weekly freighter flights to and from Dubai World Central Airport (DWC) from August 1st, 2013. Built for the future, the airport once completed, will have the capacity and state-of-the-art facilities to handle 12 million tons of cargo annually.
With this development, Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo will be the first and biggest scheduled cargo carrier in DWC. They are already using DWC as a transfer station for some of the Far East freighter routes and it will now become the main hub in the Middle-East, connecting flights between Europe, Asia, Africa, and India along with their freighter stations Muscat, Doha, Bahrain, Dammam and Kuwait in the Middle East. With this move Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo can offer its worldwide customers more main deck frequencies and a wider coverage.
Next to this, Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo want to position their fleet closer to Abu Dhabi (AUH), the hub of Etihad (EY) so they can further develop their co-operation by offering seamless connections in the EY network.
DWC as the main future cargo airport of the United Arab Emirates will become the base for all important forwarding agents. In order to organize smooth transfers between Sharjah (SHJ), where currently many forwarding agents are based, and DWC, Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo will offer seamless trucking solutions.
Dubai International Airport (DXB) will remain the airport for all of the current passenger flights and the handling agent at both airports is ‘Dnata’, to ensure smooth transfers between DXB and DWC.