Latinplane From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2629 posts, RR: 15 Reply 1, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 2202 times:
It is not certain whether Mexicana will launch their proposed flights to Beijing and Shanghai. However, LAN Cargo has intention of expanding its service to China via Mexico through its Mexican subsidiary MAS Air. The plan is to fly cargo from South America to Mexico City, where it will connect with a MAS Air 767 that will fly MEX-TIJ-China, on a weekly basis. I think this is the most concrete plan as of yet, unless Air China all of sudden announces that they'll fly to Mexico City, in order to increase ties between the two countries as is the current scenario with Brazil.
PPVRA From Brazil, joined Nov 2004, 8492 posts, RR: 43 Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2037 times:
Quoting Latinplane (Reply 1): LAN Cargo has intention of expanding its service to China via Mexico through its Mexican subsidiary MAS Air. The plan is to fly cargo from South America to Mexico City, where it will connect with a MAS Air 767 that will fly MEX-TIJ-China, on a weekly basis.
That's interesting. They could fly their own planes to Brazil or just get ABSA (partially owned by LAN Cargo) to fly up to MEX or TIJ.
What kind of planes does MAS Air fly, B767Fs too?
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Latinplane From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2629 posts, RR: 15 Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 1792 times:
That is correct. ABSA doesn't fly yet to Mexico, but MAS Air flies to Viracopos and Manaus in Brazil, as well as Bogota and Caracas, while LAN flies to Santiago. The plan is to use MAS Air's cargo hub in MEX and connect their flights to Viracopos, Manaus, and Santiago with the flight to China. LAN being a company that gets a good percentage of its profits from its Cargo divisions, sees that there is growth demand of cargo between Latin American and Asia, especially between China and Brazil. Hence the reason why they want to tap into the market.
Mas Air 767 in Santiago doing the Miami - Merida - Santiago flight.
Juventus From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 2835 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1669 times:
Quoting Latinplane (Reply 1): where it will connect with a MAS Air 767 that will fly MEX-TIJ-China
A 767 does not have the range for Tijuana-China. Sure is not Anchorage, its usually where everyone techs???
Latinplane From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2629 posts, RR: 15 Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1621 times:
Quoting Juventus (Reply 5): A 767 does not have the range for Tijuana-China. Sure is not Anchorage, its usually where everyone techs???
Could very well be Juventus. You as pilot would know better than I about such matters. But it is certain that LAN's intentions are to fly from Mexico to Asia beating Mexicana's proposed service.
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