IndiGo CarGo has begun operating freighter flights between Kolkata in India and Ezhou in China as it continues to expand its network. The freighter flights between Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU) and Ezhou Huahu Airport (EHU) in central China’s Hubei Province will operate three times a week, said Mark Sutch, chief commercial officer cargo. “A great pleasure to officiate at the opening of IndiGo CarGo’s latest phase of its international freighter strategy,” stated Sutch in a LinkedIn post last week. “This week we opened a new 3 times weekly freighter service between Kolkata in India and Ezhou in China’s Hubei Province.” He added: “For our customers the airport’s central China location offer very extensive reach via road feed service to multiple China metros.” From IndiGo CarGo’s published network on its website that this is the airline’s first freighter route to China, although IndiGo does operates two passenger flights between New Delhi and Guangzhou each day.
