The Mexican airline Viva Aerobús became the first to establish freighter operations between Mexico and Cuba by inaugurating this Monday a weekly route from the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), in Mexico City, and the José Martí International Airport, in Havana.
This type of flights will contribute to increasing the efficiency of trade routes, which between the two countries amounts to 29 weekly frequencies, according to a note published this Tuesday by the official newspaper Granma.
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They will also be able to increase exports with better transportation prices and the delay in airport baggage bands will be reduced, the information specifies.
The company aspires to extend this type of operations during the coming months from other points of the Mexican geography such as Cancun and Monterrey. This is the same airline that maintained the largest connection between Cuba and Mexico during the more than two and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic, point out other sources handled by the outlet.
the mexican newspaper Millennium remember that on February 7th the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that Viva Aerobus would carry out cargo operations from AIFA, with six weekly frequencies.
The cargo terminal of this airport has an area of 345,000 square meters, where there is a control room, 22 authorized control rooms, two domestic cargo warehouses and eight parking spaces for aircraft, adds that publication.
The terminal is optimized to handle cargo aircraft with a nose door (B-747-400) and has the capacity to accommodate containers up to 12 meters long, reported AIFA.
Viva Aerobus reported that this cargo flight is carried out in collaboration with its commercial partner Aerocharter and Merely Tours. In addition, he specified that initially the operation will be once a week and as the demand progresses the frequencies will be increased, highlights the Mexican media.
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“All the space in the aircraft, cabin (seats) and lower compartments (hold) will be used to transport up to 40 tons of cargo per month,” the company said.
In turn, he indicated that the items that will be moved are cargo in general, such as perishables, live animals, medicines, messaging, electronics, and clothing, among others.
