São Paulo – Emirates Sky Cargo announced on Friday (28) that next Tuesday (2) it should start operating another flight to Viracopos airport, in Campinas, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. The company already flies cargo aircraft to the city three times a week, and also flies cargo in the holds of the passenger aircraft flying from the Guarulhos and Rio de Janeiro airports, all in southeastern Brazil.
According to a press statement disclosed by Emirates, the aircraft operated will be the Boeing 777F, with a 3.7 metre wide deck. This new flight will expand the Emirates SkyCargo capacity by 412 tonnes a month.
Emirates SkyCargo started flying to Brazil in October 2010. The flights leave Viracopos on Mondays and Wednesdays, at 8:35 pm and on Saturdays, at 10:05 pm. The new flight will be operated on Tuesdays, leaving at 10:15 pm. The flights should have stops in Dakar, Senegal, and in Frankfurt, Germany, before arriving in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
Apart from these four weekly cargo flights, the company uses the holds of the passenger aircraft that fly daily between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Together, the Boeing 777-300ER and 777-200LR can hold up to 160 tonnes of cargo a week.
The company has ten cargo aircraft. Early this year, three units of the 777F were added to the company’s fleet, which expanded the offer to Taipei, in Taiwan; Chittagong, in Bangladesh; Eldoret, in Kenya; Lilongwe, in Malawi; Kabul, in Afghanistan; Almaty, in Kazakhstan; Gothenburg, in Sweden; Zaragoza, in Spain; Tripoli, in Libya; Djibouti; Hanoi, in Vietnam; Liège, in Belgium; and Viracopos.
*Translated by Mark Ament
