More Routes for Atlas

[Mike Bridge]

SYDNEY 22 January 2009: Qantas Freight announced today that it would introduce a direct weekly
Boeing 747-400 freighter service between the United States and New Zealand from February 2009.
Group General Manager Qantas Freight, Mr Stephen Cleary said the new route confirmed Qantas
Freight’s commitment to serving the needs of its customers in the United States and New Zealand.
“Our new freighter service will provide main deck capacity between the US east coast and New
Zealand as well as from New Zealand into Australia, with connections to Asian ports including
Bangkok, Hong Kong and Shanghai,” Mr Cleary said.
“The service will initially operate every Friday from New York (JFK) and Chicago (ORD) through to
Auckland (AKL) and Melbourne (MEL) and then extend direct from Melbourne into Asia.
“The new schedule will allow us to utilise our aircraft for additional charter work and to give us the
option, subject to demand, of adding an additional weekly service on this new route at a later date.”
Mr Cleary said that the introduction of new routes to Qantas Freight’s network diversified the
business’s exposure to the current global economic environment and its impact on air freight
volumes.
“February marks five years since we added the first of three dedicated B747 freighter aircraft to our
fleet,” he said.
“Last year we extended the wet-lease on three freighter aircraft until 2014. Along with our recent
investments in specialist supply chain businesses such as Jets Transport Express and DPEX, this
gives us the flexibility to move resources to where they are needed.”

[yoni63]

Michel, let me know if your posting these, otherwise I'll try to incorporate them if I can.

[Mike Bridge]

Release just came out yesterday
I cant see them on the site, back at work Monday, will get them out of the system for you

[mlegein]

The February 2009 schedule is already in our database. However, if these additional routes were introduced after the date of publication, I would not have gotten them in time and they will become available next month.

[Mike Bridge]

These are new Additions

[mlegein]

These are new Additions

Bryan can offer them as charters until they become part of our regular schedule next month.

[yoni63]

Mike, can you e mail me all the info to my e mail address? Thanks

[Mike Bridge]

Just heard NZ have or are about to Terminate their Lease of Atlas B744F.
This is why QF are going into their markert