Air France Cargo Adds New Daily Service From Boston to Paris Today.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1998--Air France Cargo has announced the addition of daily, non-stop Airbus 310-300 service from Boston's Logan International Airport For the Logan airport in Billings, Montana, see . Logan International Airport (IATA: BOS, ICAO: KBOS, FAA LID: BOS) in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and partly in the Town of Winthrop, Massachusetts), is one to the carrier's hub at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. The new service, which today, offers a cargo payload of six metric tons on three LD7 pallets. AF321 will depart from Boston at 10:20 p.m., and arrive in Paris at 11:05 a.m. the following day. Westbound, AF322 will depart from Paris at 4:05 p.m., and arrive in Boston at 5:50 p.m. Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde Cargo has been serving the Northeastern shipping community for more than 30 years. Larry O'Brien
Lawrence "Larry" Francis O'Brien, Jr. (July 7 1917 – September 28, 1990) was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists when, for more than two , Air France Cargo's regional manager for the area, says the additional cargo capability is good news. "Daily direct service is exactly what we need to perfect our product and expand the scope of our service," says O'Brien. "Now, we can offer our clients a choice: either the direct flight from Boston, or service via our regularly scheduled trucks to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , connecting with one of six weekly freighter departures. I know our clients will appreciate this service enhancement and the improved options now available from Boston." Air France Cargo ranks number two worldwide. Its global network spans almost 200 destinations on five continents, of which 56 are served by all cargo aircraft A cargo aircraft is an airplane designed and used for the carriage of goods, rather than passengers. This role demands a number of features that makes a cargo aircraft instantly identifiable; a "fat" looking fuselage, a high-wing to allow the cargo area to sit near the ground, a . From its hub at Charles de Gaulle, a comprehensive trucking network links 55 key European business centers. In North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Air France Cargo serves 13 gateways: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Fairbanks, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New York (JFK), Newark, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington, D.C.
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