Young charter specialist finds a way
26 Aviation, a British charter specialist founded in 2020, arranged the charter of a B747-400F operating from Zhengzhou, China on its inaugural flight to the UAE, where it received a water-cannon welcome at Dubai Al-Maktoum (DWC) at the end of August.
The aircraft was carrying 90 t of urgent humanitarian cargo that had been stranded in China due to the ongoing air freight crisis that has plagued the region in recent weeks.
Sam Heather, 26 Aviations's founder and managing director, commented on the challenges that were faced securing widebody charter capacity out of China at such short notice: "It was absolutely critical that we used a carrier who had a strong presence in China, as well as an airport that avoided the rapidly escalating disruptions in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Tianjin." (ah)