包裹代替乘客：即日起，德国的假日旅游航空公司 Condor 将代表全球快递服务 DHL Express 执飞其四架 767飞机。本周，合作伙伴关系下的首批货运航班起飞。Condor 飞机将以 DHL Express在莱比锡的欧洲枢纽为基地，并沿三条航线运输货物——到爱尔兰的香农、意大利的米兰-马尔彭萨和德国的科隆。这些航班也可用于运输Covid-19 疫苗。合作伙伴关系Zui初将延长至 5 月底。
“我们去年开始运送更多货物，并继续巩固我们的空运知识。我们现在很高兴能与 DHL Express中这样一位经验丰富的合作伙伴合作，”Condor 运营官 Christian Schmitt 说。“合作伙伴关系还展示了 Condor适应异常情况的能力，在这种情况下，与 DHL 合作，为维护国际供应链做出重要贡献。”
DHL Express 欧洲航空副总裁 Markus Otto补充道：“货运和客运承运人之间的这种合作关系是的。“它使我们能够更快、更灵活地应对国际快递服务的持续高需求。Condor的额外运力使我们能够提高服务质量和运输时间，并保持我们的增长轨迹。”
自去年 4 月以来，Condor将越来越多的航班用于货运，主要运输医疗防护设备，包括数百万个口罩、防护服和手套，以及电子商务商品。在此过程中，Condor 的部分767 机队已转换为纯货机。有一段时间，Condor 的 16 架 767 飞机中有 14 架仅用于货运。Condor还培训并部署了一个货运主管团队来监督货运业务并确保质量执行。但德国的假日旅游航空公司仍然忠于旅游业，Condor目前经营飞往加那利群岛、埃及、古巴、马尔代夫和多米尼加共和国的航班。
对于德国邮政敦豪集团的快递部门而言，此次合作是一项行动计划的一部分，旨在在全球快递量不断增长的情况下扩大容量并保持公司的增长轨迹。2021年初，DHL 快递已宣布增购新的宽体 777F 飞机。
Parcels instead of passengers: Effective immediately, Germany’sfavorite holiday travel airline Condor will be flying four of itsBoeing 767s on behalf of DHL Express, the worldwide leader ofExpress service. The first cargo flights under the partnership tookoff this week. The Condor planes will be based at DHL Express’largest European hub in Leipzig and transport shipments along threeroutes – to Shannon, Ireland, Milan-Malpensa in Italy, and Cologne,Germany. These flights would also be available to transportCovid-19 vaccines. The partnership will initially extend until theend of May.
“We began flying more cargo last year and continued to build onour air freight expertise. And we’re very pleased now to be workingtogether with such an experienced partner in DHL Express,” saysCondor COO Christian Schmitt. “The partnership also demonstratesCondor’s ability to adjust to unusual situations and, in this case,to work together with DHL to make an important contribution tomaintaining international supply chains.”
“This partnership between cargo and passenger carriers isunique,” adds Markus Otto, Senior Vice President Aviation Europe atDHL Express. “It allows us to react even faster and more flexiblyto the continued high demand for international express service. Theadditional capacity through Condor allows us to further improveservice quality and transit times, and maintain our growthtrajectory.”
Since April of last year, Condor has devoted an increasing numberof flights to cargo, transporting primarily medical protectiveequipment – including millions of face masks, protective suits andgloves – in addition to e-commerce goods. In the process, a portionof Condor’s Boeing 767 fleet has been converted to pure cargoaircraft. For a period, 14 of Condor’s 16 Boeing 767 aircraft werebeing used solely for cargo. Condor has also trained and deployed ateam of Cargo Supervisors to oversee cargo operations and ensurequality execution. But Germany’s most popular holiday travelairline remains loyal to the travel industry, with Condor currentlyoperating flights to the Canary Islands, Egypt, Cuba, the Maldivesand the Dominican Republic.
For Deutsche Post DHL Group’s Express division, the partnershipis part of a program of action measures to expand capacity in theface of growing express volumes worldwide and maintain thecompany’s growth trajectory. Early in 2021, DHL Express had alreadyannounced additional purchases of new wide-body Boeing 777Faircraft.