AIRBRIDGECARGO EXPANDS NORTH AMERICAN PRESENCE WITH TWICE WEEKLY FLIGHTS TO LOS ANGELES
(L os Angeles, California – April 13, 2015) AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) added twice weekly flights at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) from itsSheremetyevo Moscow (SVO) hub, connecting the U.S. west coast to its global network.
“Launching Los Angeles flights is part of our ongoing commitment to develop our presence in the U.S. market and follows strong consumer interest in both China and the United States,” said Robert van de Weg, ABC’s Senior vice President, Sales and Marketing. “ABC has become one of the world’s fastest growing international cargo airlines with an average growth rate of 11 percent over the last five years.”
About AirBridgeCargo Airlines
AirBridgeCargo Airlines, part of Volga-Dnepr Group, entered the scheduled cargo market in 2004. Today, AirBridgeCargo is one of the fastest-growing international scheduled cargo airlines. It operates Boeing 747 all-cargo flights via its Sheremetyevo hub in Moscow. This hub concept provides its customers with a significant reduction in transit times to key destinations due to a low reliance on trucking on the European continent for export and import flows. ?irBridgeCargo’s current fleet consists of 14 Boeing 747 freighters: five Boeing 747-400ERFs, three B747-400Fs and six Boeing 747-8Fs.
About Los Angeles International Airport
LAX is the fifth busiest airport in the world and second in the United States. LAX served nearly 70.7 million passengers in 2014. LAX offers 692 daily nonstop flights to 85 cities in the U.S. and 928 weekly nonstop flights to 67 cities in 34 countries on 59 commercial air carriers. LAX ranks 14th in the world and fifth in the U.S. in air cargo tonnage processed, with over two million tons of air cargo valued at over $91.6 billion. An economic study in 2011 reported that operations at LAX generated 294,400 jobs in Los Angeles County with labor income of $13.6 billion and economic output of more than $39.7 billion. This activity added $2.5 billion to local and state revenues. LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund.
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