CHINA Postal Airlines has started its second international service that connects Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Osaka.
The new five times weekly service uses a Boeing 737-300 freighter. The service departs every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 0300 hrs from Pudong and arrives in Osaka at 0450 hrs. The flight then heads back for Shanghai, leaving at 0610 hrs and landing at 0810 hrs.
A Xinhua News Agency report said the service is intended to speed up postal package delivery times between the two destinations and moves are afoot to cut transit times further.
China Postal Airlines launched its first international route in August, linking Beijing to Seoul. In January 2007, the carrier plans to begin a daily chartered airfreight service from Tianjin to Seoul to meet demand primarily from South Korean electronic products manufacturer Samsung.
Established in 1997 and reorganised in 2002, China Postal Airlines has since become a joint venture business between China Post and China Southern Airlines. The carrier now operates a fleet of 13 freighters, offering almost 30 flights each week to more than 10 cities on mainland China.
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