Turkish Cargo Adds Addis Ababa and Jeddah Flights

Posted 26/09/2011

Turkish Cargo, the freight business of Turkish Airlines (THY), will inaugurate cargo links to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa via the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah from tomorrow (September 27).  The network expansion follows the launch last month of cargo flights to Riyadh and capacity to Saudi Arabia was boosted earlier this month through belly-hold space on THY’s new passenger flight to Dammam. 

The new route will be operated on a weekly basis and will be flown using an Airbus A330-200F.  Turkish Cargo already provides dedicated freighter links to four markets in Africa with weekly flights from Istanbul to Algeiers; twice weekly services to Casablanca; a three times weekly link to Cairo and regular flights to Tripoli, although the latter route is currently suspended.

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