Qantas Freight dresses A321 freighter in Christmas livery for the festive season
Qantas Freight has unveiled one of its Airbus 321 freighters in a Christmas-themed livery as the aircraft prepares to deliver 50,000 tons of freight for the holiday season.
The freighter, one of the carrier’s six A321s, has been painted in a new livery that Qantas Freighter calls, “Santa’s Freight”.
The aptly-themed livery represents what the A321F will be busy doing for the rest of 2024: delivering packages, mail, and popular Australian food such as seafood, seasonal produce and even Christmas puddings.
As online shopping continues to boom, Qantas said that freight volumes for the Christmas period are expected to be up five percent compared to 2023.
According to Qantas, its freighter fleet will fly around 550 additional hours across the domestic network in November and December 2024, equivalent to 23 days of 24-hour flying.
Additional days of operation across the fleet will add 3,000 tons of domestic capacity. The carrier said this is the equivalent of flying 12,000 fully-grown reindeer to cities and regional ports around Australia.
“While Santa and his elves have been preparing to fly gifts for kids around the world, Qantas Freight has been busy getting our fleet of freight sleighs ready for the Christmas peak,” Igor Kwiatkowski, Executive Manager of Qantas Freight said in a statement.
“We’ve increased flying hours, and we’ll have more support, extra capacity and our very own ‘Santa’s Freight’ aircraft to deliver more than 50 million kilos of freight this Christmas,” Kwiatkowski added.
Kwiatkowski said Qantas Freight will spend the next few weeks flying gifts, cards and perishables, such as mangoes and prawns, across the country and the world.
“We are delighted to play this important role for what is a really special time for families,” Kwiatkowski added.
On the busiest days leading up to Christmas, Qantas Freight will carry around one million kilograms of cargo per day across its global network, which is around 70% more than its usual daily uplift.
In addition to Australia Post’s parcels, Australian-made gifts and international orders, Qantas Freight will carry some of the most important cargo needed to make holidays merry and bright, including:Fresh produce such as mangoes, cherries, strawberries and stone fruit
A range of seafood including live, fresh and frozen lobsters, coral trout, mussels, abalone and prawns
Beef, pork and lamb
Fresh cut flowers to decorate tables
Milk, yogurt and cheese
Cars and F1 vehicles to fuel racing dreams
Critical supplies to keep Australia moving, from aircraft engines to rescue helicopters and medicines
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