American Airlines Cargo moved record shipments on National Mango Day, July 22.
Originating in Pakistan, the mangoes travel on American’s interline partner to Houston George Bush where they are trucked to a treatment plant for washing and then on to New Orleans International. There, American uses its domestic network and narrowbody fleet to move mangoes across the US via Charlotte, Chicago O’Hare and Dallas/Fort Worth. So far, the carrier has moved more than 50,000 lbs. of mangoes but volumes are expected to surpass 125,000lb by the end of August. This is the first project of this scale to come out of American’s cargo operations in New Orleans.