Teleport, the logistics venture of Capital A (formerly known as AirAsia), has signed a GSSA contract with Australia's longest-serving GSSA, ECS Group subsidiary Wexco Group.
The contract covers three airlines in one of Asia's fastest-growing airline groups: AirAsia X (D7), Thai AirAsia X (XJ), and Indonesia AirAsia (QZ), for all belly capacity originating from Australia and New Zealand.
The contract puts Wexco in charge of filling a total of 43 flights per week out of Sydney (SYD), Perth (PER), and Melbourne (MEL), with an average weekly uplift of 120 tons, according to the announcement.
"With this, both Teleport and Wexco Group can capitalize on the strong movements of perishable cargo, health food supplements, electrical goods, general cargo (consolidations), and mail within the region," the statement said.
AirAsia X's 22 weekly flights, operated with widebody A330-300 aircraft, include daily services from Sydney (SYD) to Auckland (AKL) and Kuala Lumpur (KUL).
Kuala Lumpur is also served four times a week out of Melbourne (MEL) and four weekly from Perth (PER).
The airline's main hub offers a multitude of connections across its vast Asian network, covering prime global cargo hubs such as Taipei (TPE) in Taiwan and Incheon (ICN) in South Korea.
"We are excited to collaborate with Wexco as a partner, who brings on onboard their robust experience and quality customer service to help better serve our cargo customers in this region. This is in line with Teleport's growth strategy for Australia and New Zealand, where businesses here can also take advantage of our extensive ASEAN network for further distribution into the region," said Francis Antony, group head of cargo commercial at Teleport.
Meanwhile, the statement noted that Thai AirAsia X runs seven weekly flights, also deploying A330-300 widebodies: three weekly services from Melbourne (MEL) to Bangkok (BKK) and four weekly flights from Sydney (SYD) to Bangkok (BKK).
These flights can be booked to connect to popular cargo destinations within the Asia Pacific region, namely Japan and India, amongst others.
Indonesia AirAsia operates 14 weekly flights operated with narrowbodies A320 aircraft, twice daily between Perth (PER) and Denpasar (DPS).
Cedric Millet, managing director of Wexco, noted that the latest deal with Teleport makes it the GSSA of "three very dynamic airlines" serving all the major Australian gateways and offering a great network to New Zealand, South-East and North-East Asia.
"Wexco is the perfect match for AirAsia airlines in Australia on account of our shared impeccable reputation, our customer-centric approach, and our adoption of the latest technologies to ensure optimum revenues," Millet added.
Wexco said the AirAsia GSSA operations started in September 2022.
"The GSSA's goal for 2023 is to develop the year-round perishable shipment flows, as well as increase its agent and commodity mix throughout the AirAsia network," it added.
