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Feb 8, 2006 (newstodate): The size of the Finnish air cargo market is too small to warrant pure freighter operations.
-Price is always the crucial issue, and as there is too little volume to operate directly with a freighter between Finland and the Far East, a continental airport would need to be added, and eventually profitability would be lost, says Anders von Bell, Waco Finland managing director.
-Besides integrator services, the only freighter currently operating at Helsinki is the Aeroflot service to Moscow. But this service is driven by Chinese exports to Russia and has little direct bearing on the Finnish airfreight market.
-What does provide prospects for uplift capacity growth in Finland is rather the plans by Finnair to introduce the Airbus A340 from 2007 and the A350 from 2011. Adding new destinations from this year including Nagoya and Delhi to further compelement its existing and comprehensive Far Eastern network, Finnair will compensate for the absence of pure freighter services in the market, says Mr von Bell.
-Price is always the crucial issue, and as there is too little volume to operate directly with a freighter between Finland and the Far East, a continental airport would need to be added, and eventually profitability would be lost, says Anders von Bell, Waco Finland managing director.
-Besides integrator services, the only freighter currently operating at Helsinki is the Aeroflot service to Moscow. But this service is driven by Chinese exports to Russia and has little direct bearing on the Finnish airfreight market.
-What does provide prospects for uplift capacity growth in Finland is rather the plans by Finnair to introduce the Airbus A340 from 2007 and the A350 from 2011. Adding new destinations from this year including Nagoya and Delhi to further compelement its existing and comprehensive Far Eastern network, Finnair will compensate for the absence of pure freighter services in the market, says Mr von Bell.