Titan Airways to operate Royal Mail's night service

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Royal Mail has selected Stansted-based charter specialist, Titan Airways, to continue its night mail service until 2017, subject to final contracts.

Titan will operate three aircraft on behalf of Royal Mail from January 2014 until January 2017. Supported by Titan’s three Boeing 737-300 aircraft, the new deal will involve nightly operations to Edinburgh and double nightly flights to Belfast.

Titan Airways’ commercial director Alastair Kiernan said, “The Royal Mail operation remains a key part of the Titan business and we are extremely pleased with the news that we shall continue to serve Royal Mail for at least the next four years.”

The Boeing 737-300 offers greater fuel efficiency, a higher payload and volumetric capacity over Titan’s former aircraft, the BAe 146-200 QC, introduced to Titan’s fleet in 1996. For this reason Royal Mail has begun the process of phasing out the BAe 146 aircraft from its operating network.