New agreement with Etihad Crystal Cargo, Nairobi, Kenya-based Astral Aviation has now been signed a deal with Lufthansa Cargo.
Lufthansa currently flies an MD11 four times a week to Nairobi on the way to Johannesburg. Astral will now on-carry to five African countries using a mixed freighter fleet of DC9s, F27s and Antonov 12s.
Astral will be providing direct flights to Bujumbura, Burundi; Zanzibar, Dar Es Salaam and Mwanza in Tanzania; Juba and Khartoum, Sudan; Entebbe, Uganda; and Kigali, Rwanda.
Last month, Lufthansa’s joint venture Jade Cargo began twice-weekly flights from Shanghai with a 747-400 freighter via Chennai in India to Sharjah, UAE and Lagos, Nigeria.
