[photopress:Baiyun_1.jpg,full,alignright]Northwest Airlines has made the decision to use Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou as its main gateway for cargo from the Pearl River Delta. Northwest is almost doubling its freighter flights out of Baiyun airport. This coincides with the move three months ago when Northwest pulled its freighters out of Hong Kong, which has some interesting long term implications especially if it is the start of a general trend.
Northwest is able to increase its flight frequency under the new Sino-US bilateral and it is moving up from four freighter flights a week to a daily frequecy — all from Baiyun, not Hong Kong.
Until last December, Northwest had operated six all-cargo flights a week to Hong Kong, using B747-200 freighter aircraft flying between Hong Kong and the US by way of Japan.
Jim Friedel, president of Northwest Airlines Cargo said, ‘Hong Kong is a severely imbalanced market. The yields were sinking lower.’
Northwest continues to fly passenger aircraft into Hong Kong, using B747-400 aircraft for daily flights via Japan.
Source: CargoNews