Italian all-cargo carrier Cargoitalia is adding extra MD-11 flights to Shanghai and Hong Kong in its summer northern 2011 schedule.From late March, the airline will operate four times weekly to Hong Kong  on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Tuesday and  Friday services will operate via Sharjah, while the Thursday and Saturday flights will continue to route via Dubai.

Also from late March, the airline is increasing its flights to Shanghai to three times weekly, with a new Friday service joining the existing departures on Wednesday and Sunday; all flights will continue to make a technical stop in Krasnoyarsk in both directions.The carrier will continue to operate twice-weekly to New York JFK on Wednesday and Sunday an earlier departure time for the previous Monday service, twice-weekly to Atlanta via New York  arriving Monday and Thursday and twice-weekly to Chicago on Thursday and Saturday.

Cargoitalia commercial director Roberto Gilardoni said : “The markets in both Italy and the Far East have been very supportive of our services since their launch. We are now in a second phase in which we are placing greater emphasis on service quality, with the addition of extra flights to both Hong Kong and Shanghai. Our improved frequencies will enable us to target traffic which is more time-critical and offers higher yields.