The “around-the-world” flight through Chengdu will start at UPS’s European hub in Cologne, Germany, and make a stop in Warsaw before transiting Chengdu’s Shuangliu International Airport, China’s sixth-largest cargo and passenger facility. It then will operate to UPS’s Asia hub in Shanghai. The daily MD-11 freighter flight began Monday.
“China’s ‘Go West’ program is making it very attractive for companies to move production facilities to inland cities like Chengdu, and we believe the area is poised for accelerated growth in express shipping,” said UPS International President Dan Brutto, in a statement.
With the Chengdu flight, UPS connects Europe and Asia through 24 flights per week. The company serves 330 Chinese cities and operates 200 weekly flights connecting China to markets around the world.
