UPS to start daily, non-stop Louisville-to-Dubai flight

· Monday, February 05, 2018

The Atlanta-based parcel giant will start a daily, non-stop flight on Feb. 27 from its Louisville, Ky. hub to Dubai.

UPS on Feb. 27 will start a daily, non-stop flight from its Louisville, Ky. hub to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The Atlanta-based parcel giant said the flight will improve transit times from North and South America to the Mideast by a full business day.
UPS will use its new Boeing 747-8 freighters on the 7,700-mile route, the longest, regularly-scheduled flight the company has ever operated. The flight will operate Tuesday through Saturday. The current flight is operated on a weekly basis, UPS said.
The Louisville-Dubai flight leg is part of a UPS “around-the-world” flight that begins and ends at Louisville. After arriving in Dubai, packages and freight will be loaded on the plane before it departs for Shenzhen, China. U.S.-bound volume is then loaded in Shenzhen and the aircraft returns to Louisville via Anchorage, Alaska.

Chris Gillis

Located in the Washington, D.C. area, Chris Gillis primarily reports on regulatory and legislative topics that impact cross-border trade. He joined American Shipper in 1994, shortly after graduating from Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Md., with a degree in international business and economics.