The new flight CZ465 was operated by B777-200F, with three flights weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. The plane takes off at 11:35 from Vienna and arrives in Frankfurt at 13:00, then departures again from Frankfurt at 15:10 to Guangzhou at 01:55 the next day (all in Vienna and Frankfurt local time).
China Southern Cargo launched Guangzhou-Frankfurt-Guangzhou direct flight (CZ467) in July 2013. With the added stopover at Vienna, China Southern will provide 450 tons freighter capacity weekly among Guangzhou, Vienna and Frankfort.
This new freighter service is also the first one from Southern China to Central and Eastern Europe. Exports to Austria are costumes, household decorations and electronics coming from Pearl River Delta, Xiamen and Southeast Asia.
The route between China and Germany is a golden route for Sino-European air freight market. The majority of import and export cargo between China and Germany is machinery, electrical appliance, and precision instrument, which is high yielded and suitable for air transportation.
In 2009, China Southern’s Shanghai-Frankfurt-Shanghai service made its debut. Since then, China Southern has gained experience of freighter operation and ground handling in Frankfort. Through well-developed trucking network, cargo can be transferred from Frankfurt to 96 cities in 25 European countries such as Belgium, Czech, Denmark, Italy, and UK.
Two weeks ago, China Southern Airlines announced that, from June this summer, it will start 3 times weekly Guangzhou-Changsha-Frankfort passenger flight which operated by A330-200. It will enrich the exporting and importing channel for cargo between southern China and Frankfort.
About China Southern Cargo
China Southern Cargo, as a member of SkyTeam Cargo, posses eight B777-200Fs, and four more will be delivered in 2015. It offers 13 freighter routes to the market. Meanwhile, China Southern Cargo runs the bellyhold cargo business of more than 550 passenger aircrafts, which covers China and Asia, and radiates to the main cities in Europe, America, Australia, and Middle East. In addition, China Southern Cargo has established trucking network in China, Europe, North America, Middle East, Australia, and Japan, which cover major cities in China such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Chongqing, and Zhengzhou. In Europe, through trucking network cargo can be transported to more than 100 cities accross Europe from Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Vienna, and London; In North America, cargo can be carried to more than 90 cities like Boston, New York, Houston, Seattle, and Portland, as well as Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary in Canada via trucking centers in Chicago, Los Angela, and Vancouver; Besides, there are 10 trucking destinations in Middle East, 7 in Oceanica, and 5 in Japan.
