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Mon, 03/22/2010 - 22:48
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Novosibirsk airport provides technical service to Air China Cargo.
22/3 Tass 161
TOLMACHYOVO, March 22 (Itar-Tass) - Tolmachyovo international airport
has launched technical services to planes belonging to Air China Cargo
company - one of the biggest cargo air carriers, spokeswoman for
Tolmachyovo airport Svetlana Smirnova told Itar-Tass on Monday.
A first plane belonging to the Chinese company - Boeing -747-400 that
performed a charter flight from Shanghai to Novosibirsk, made a stopover
at Tolmachyovo airport for refueling. After the plane was refueled the
chief pilot of the Chinese plane praised a high level of services provided
at Tolmachyovo airport. The plane took 70 tons of fuel within 25 minutes,
such a prompt service is a rare thing to find even in Europe, the Chinese
pilot said.
The Novosibirsk airport and the Chinese company signed an agreement
on cooperation last week. Tolmachyovo is the first airport in Russia where
Air China Cargo planes, that perform three flights a week on air route
Shanghai- Novosibirsk- Frankfurt, will make technical stopovers for
refueling. The Chinese side highly appreciated the airport's possibilities
and a positive and energetic attitude of the airport personnel.
Tolmachyovo is the biggest transit centre between Europe and Asia.
Its technical possibilities enable to service all kinds of aircraft. The
second runway being built at Tolmachyovo is to be commissioned by the
beginning of 2010 summer air navigation. After the new runway is
commissioned the through capacity of Tolmachyovo airport will double to
make 36 takeoffs and landings per hour.
Air China Cargo performs flights from Beijing to Shanghai, Los
Angeles, New York, Chicago, Portland, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Vienna,
Paris, London.
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