News / Royal Mail cut in domestic air freight services a blow to contract freighter operator

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A decision by UK postal service Royal Mail to remove five 737 freighters from service and cut its domestic flights in half will be a blow to their operator, Sweden-based cargo airline West Atlantic.

Royal Mail announced this week that it would discontinue 18 domestic flights in favour of road transport, to “improve customer reliability and minimise carbon emissions”.  

Eleven flights made their final journeys last month, three will cease on 20 July and a further four early next year. 

A spokesperson ...