China Post on Wednesday opened its first independent intercontinental flight route, linking Nanjing City, east China's Jiangsu Province, and Luxembourg, and covering 36 European countries.
The new route is expected to cut delivery time to major European destinations to at maximum four to seven days.
The flight for the new route is the wide-body all-cargo Boeing 777-F aircraft introduced by China Post for the first time. Its maximum commercial weight can reach 102 tons, and the flight from Nanjing to Luxembourg Airport in Findel can be completed in less than 11 hours.
"We plan to have two flights a week, one on Wednesday and one on Friday. For example, the parcels received in Nanjing on Tuesday will depart at 02:00 on Wednesday, arrive in Luxembourg at 08:20 European time, and be shipped to other countries such as France, Germany and the Netherlands by truck flights on the same day. If everything goes well, the parcels can be delivered to the final destinations on the same day they arrive in Luxembourg," said Wang Tongju, Party secretary of China Postal Airlines.
China Post currently operates a fleet of more than 40 aircraft. Prior to the newly-opened Nanjing-Luxembourg route, the state-owned postal service giant's independent flight network covered Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and other neighboring Asian countries, as well as Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions of China.
Going forward, China Post plans to focus on using the airports in Nanjing and Zhengzhou, a transportation hub in central China, and open intercontinental routes to Australia and North America step by step.
China Post opens first independent intercontinental flight route
