SF Airlines Officially Launched the "Xilinhot=Hangzhou" Freight Air Route

With the coming of the Spring Festival logistics peak season, SF Airlines officially launched the "Xilinhot=Hangzhou" freight air route on January 24, 2019 to respond to the high demand on beef and mutton transportation from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the East China during the Spring Festival. The new air route will be flown by B737-300/400 freighter of SF Airlines with the cargo capacity of 14 tons.

Figure 1: The B737 freighter of SF Airlines Arriving at Xilinhot

Figure 2: The Maiden Flight Ceremony of the "Xilinhot=Hangzhou" Air Route of SF Airlines

Xilinhot is located in the center of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with the largest Inner Mongolia beef and mutton output quantity. Its outbound shipment volume of beef and mutton in winter is high, accounting for 31.5% of the whole region. Before the launch of "Xilinhot=Hangzhou" air route, agriculture products such as beef and mutton produced by Xilinhot were transported by single mode of airline bellyhold, transit to Beijing for outbound through main line. The transit time was long, which would easily cause damage to the product quality. The launch of the new air route solves this problem, which not only expands the air freight resources of Xilinhot, greatly cuts transit processes, but also enhances the freshness of agricultural products such as beef and mutton, assists in external market exploration of the beef and mutton in Xinlinhot and helps local farmers in increase of production and income.

Figure 3: Unloading Site of the B737 freighter of SF Airlines

Figure 4: Unloading Site of the B737 freighter of SF Airlines

"Xilinhot=Hangzhou" is the first air route launched by SF Airlines in 2019, and also the first air freight route since the open air traffic of Xilinhot Airport. In the future, SF Airlines will continue to explore its air route coverage, optimize its air route network and continue to improve its air transportation service capacity with customer's demands as the core, and devote itself to becoming customers' most trust-worthy partner with air transportation.