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US's Eastern Airlines to debut B777 ops in 2H22

US's Eastern Airlines secures first cargo deal, misses ETOPS

Eastern Airlines (2D, Miami Int'l) has announced the signing of an agreement with Flexport to operate its future B777 Express Freighter aircraft out of Chicago O'Hare to Hong Kong Int'l and Ho Chi Minh City.

The transpacific flights are due to be run 2x weekly. Eastern Airlines did not disclose whether it would use a B777-200 or a B777-300 in its in-house conversion variant. It also did not disclose a specific timeline, saying only that operations would become once the conversion is approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

"There is an urgent demand to develop new solutions that alleviate the constricted global cargo market. Our partnership with Flexport, combining the large volume of our B777 Express Freighter with Flexport's leading-edge eCommerce technology and logistics platform, will fill that unmet need and add new capacity to the global cargo market," President and Chief Executive Steve Harfst said.

However, the plans have hit an unrelated snag after the airline was denied its ETOPS certificate, necessary to operate transpacific...

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