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Aug 28, 2020 (newstodate): Denmark's second-largest airport, Billund Airport is seeing brisk traffic at its cargo center.
   While passenger traffic is still down due to the pandemic, ad-hoc freighter and all-cargo traffic is booming, driven not least by the PPE business.
   This week, one day's cargo traffic comprised the simultaneous handling of four wide-body aircraft including an AN-124, one Boeing 747, one Boeing 777F and one Airbus A330 aircraft, and tomorrow, August 29, will see one more AN-124 operation, part of a series of so far four freighter operations by Blue Water carrying PPE from Shanghai to Billund Airport.
   The Blue Water-operation started on August 21, 2020, and a final flights is scheduled for September 5, 2020, while flights beyond this date may be added if still sustainable and required in the market.  
   The unusual volume of ad-hoc freighter operations comes on top of the airport's weekly 42 scheduled freighter operations by Turkish Cargo and integrator companies.

   In "normal" times, most of Billund Airport's cargo is however generated by trucks feeding air cargo  shipments between Europe's main airports and Billund - a traffic badly hurt by the suspension of most passenger flights, leaving a strong impact on the over-all volumes of cargo at Billund Airport as well.