DHL restructures European flight operations

DHL has announced it is going to restructure its European flight operations and plans to establish a new subsidiary.

The new subsidiary will be established in Austria and will serve European destinations using B757Fs that are being transferred over from DHL Air UK. It is planned that all 23 B757Fs are to be moved to the new Austrian AOC. In its turn, DHL Air UK will expand the B767-fleet and also add the B777F. With this expansion, the airline will be transformed to focus solely on serving intercontinental routes. The first B777F is expected to be added to the fleet.

Currently, DHL's European operations are conducted by its two subsidiaries European Air Transport (based at Leipzig) and DHL Air UK (based at East Midlands). EAT has a fleet of 22 A300Fs, four A330Fs and nine B757Fs. DHL Air UK on its turn has 23 B757Fs and three B767-300ERFs.

Next to these in-house subsidiaries, DHL also makes extensive use in Europe from third-party carriers reach maximum flexibility. European airlines also flying for DHL are AeroLogic (six B777Fs), ASL Airlines (four A300Fs, three A330-300P2Fs, one B737-400SF), Cargo Air (three B737-400SFs), SmartLynx Malta (A321P2F, to start later this year), Solinair (one A300F) and Swiftair (four B737-400SFs).

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