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Jul 26, 2021 (newstodate): Qatar Cargo is now back at Harstad-Narvik Evenes Airport after the full reopening of the airport's runway on July 15, 2021.
For a start at least, the carrier is now operating a weekly Boeing 777 all-cargo passenger aircraft flying in from Luxembourg to Harstad-Narvik Evenes Airport on Tuesdays, picking up seafood shipments before continuing to Doha with the first operation on July 20.
The Evenes-operation was moved to Bodo Airport from April 22, 2021, as the runway works started at Evenes, and in July 2021 has been routing Boeing 777 all-cargo flights from Liege to Bodo on Wednesdays, while another flight by Qatar Cargo on Tuesdays also from Liege was stopped after July 13 as the Evenes operation is resumed.
During the runway construction period at Evenes Airport, the sole operator of cargo flights has been Virgin Atlantic Airways.
In cooperation with Kuehne & Nagel Norway, Virgin Atlantic on February 3, 2021, launched two weekly flights from Evenes to London Heathrow using Boeing 787-9 aircraft to lift seafood belly cargo into Virgin's route network in London, with onward transfer to the US market.