UK Royal Mail's GLS to create own express air delivery service

The Royal Mail’s General Logistics Systems is creating its own air express delivery service, Rico Back, the head of GLS, told Handelsblatt.

Back said the company will invest 10 mln eur in GLS Air this year and that its two aircraft will fly between the company’s delivery centres in Germany and the UK from October.

Ultimately, GLS Air wants to have a fleet of 25 aircraft that will fly to 17 European nations, he added.

GLS is the continental European counterpart to Royal Mail’s UK-based Parcelforce Worldwide. It is based in the Netherlands and has 14,500 staff.