Qantas has announced new freight schedules between Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand to support new and growing customer demand.

Three weekly services are now operating between Australia and Hong Kong using widebody A332 passenger-to-freight (P2F) aircraft. Two of these services fly from Sydney to Hong Kong every Wednesday and Sunday and, for the first time, Qantas Freight is offering a Perth-Hong Kong-Sydney service departing Australia each Friday to cater for shipments from Western Australia.

Customer options also increased with five weekly return services operating from Sydney to Christchurch via Auckland from late August. Four of these services are operated by the fuel-efficient A321P2F, including a new weekend service. This is in addition to the weekly A332P2F widebody that flies every Thursday to support larger cargo shipments.

From 10 September 2024, Melbourne will be added to one of the weekly trans-Tasman freighter services to open up capacity from southern states into New Zealand. Adding the A321P2F to the trans-Tasman route allows Qantas Freight to expand the A330 freighter network north to Asia.

The new schedule complements existing capacity available on passenger services and follows the recent addition of a sixth A321P2F aircraft to the dedicated Qantas Freight fleet.

Igor Kwiatkowski, Executive Manager Qantas Freight says, “Demand for freight services is rising, particularly in Asia, and we’re looking at several options to extend the A330 freighter schedule to more places in Asia as we want to meet that need now and into the future.

“These changes give freight customers in Australia, New Zealand and Asia more opportunity through greater frequency of services and the enhanced capacity of our Airbus fleet.”