See you in September . . . As Virgin Atlantic welcomes cargo potential for its new start-up daily flights between UK and Tel Aviv September 25, Dominic Kennedy, Managing Director of Virgin Atlantic Cargo declared,
  “This is a really exciting new route for us and plays to our strengths in terms of quick connections to and from US and our proven expertise in carrying the major types of products moving in and out of Israel.
  “We know customers will welcome not only the choice of more capacity but also the opportunity to benefit from our network reach and service levels.
  “We expect cargo to make a significant contribution to the success of the route,” Director Dominic said.
  Virgin Atlantic’s daily Airbus A330-300 flights will offer 20 tons of capacity on each service.
For the record last year (2018) saw particularly strong growth in shipments of pharmaceuticals, perishables and high-tech cargo to Tel Aviv, which rose 35%, 7% and 5% year-on-year respectively, according to market data.