Mail, Freight Up 34.7% at French Airport

Strong growth in express shipments was the major factor in a 34.7 percent increase in flown airfreight and mail handled at Rennes-St Jacques airport in 2001 on the previous year’s levels. Traffic totalled 12,192 tonnes, with TNT French unit, Jet Services, the leading operator accounting for 3,511 tonnes, a rise of 96.1percent followed by UPS, whose volume rose 40.1 percent to 3,195 tonnes, the airport authority said. The other major cargo operator was French post office airline subsidiary, Europe Airpost, which totalled 736 tonnes, a fall of 3.5 percent on 2000 levels. Cargo charter flights rose 48.4 percent to 601 tonnes.