Air France Cargo Inaugurates Service to Atlanta.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1998--Air France Cargo has announced the start-up of a new service linking Atlanta with the carrier's hub at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. The Boeing 747 freighter service, which started on May 27, operates twice weekly. AF6423 departs from Atlanta on Sundays at 9:20 p.m., and arrives in Paris at 11:20 a.m. the following day. On Wednesday, AF6417 departs from Atlanta at 10:15 p.m., and arrives in Paris at 8:00 p.m. the next day. The airline also offers westbound services on the same days. Beginning today, 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 will add daily B767-300 service, which will offer a cargo payload of seven metric tons on four LD7 pallets. AF043 will depart from Atlanta at 9:20 p.m. and arrive in Paris at 11:35 a.m. the next day. Westbound, AF042 will depart from Paris at 4:05 p.m. and arrive in Atlanta at 7:30 p.m. "As a leader in the air freight air freight n → flete m por avión air freight n → fret aérien air freight air n → Luftfracht f industry, Air France Cargo should be present in this important market," says Wayne Forward, Air France Cargo's regional managerfor the Southeast. "The burgeoning economy of the Southeast calls for the type of lift which Air France Cargo is able to provide. Twice weekly freighter service complemented by daily B767-300 flights is exactly the type of product that our clients seek. We intend to play an active role in supporting the growing trade between this area and the rest of the world." Air France Cargo ranks number two worldwide. Its global network spans almost 200 destinations on two 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 Charles de Gaulle hub, a comprehensive trucking network links 55 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 Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Miami, Montreal, 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 (JFK), Newark, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Toronto and Washington, D.C.
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