Qatar Airways Cargo starts passenger freighter service to Penang

Qatar Airways Cargo will recommence belly capacity services to Penang, Malaysia from February 2023. The Cargo carrier will operate an A330 passenger freighter to Penang via Qatar Airways’ passenger flights to Phuket, four times a week. Guillaume Halleux, chief officer cargo at Qatar Airways Cargo said: “Our network planning team saw a perfect opportunity in the passenger A330 flight’s ground-time in Phuket, and have worked hard to establish a well-scheduled, interim passenger-freighter connection to Penang and back to maximize the cargo capacity into and out of Malaysia’s second-busiest cargo airport. This Next Generation-style multi-modal strategy sees Qatar Airways’ Doha-Phuket passenger