British Airways Air Freight Surges at PIT

British Airways’ nonstop service to London isn’t solely about connecting Pittsburghers to Europe and beyond. It also transports valuable products between the region and the rest of the world.

While the carrier is seeing surging passenger numbers on its Pittsburgh-London route, a similar trend is occurring in its cargo holds below the passenger cabin.

Year-to-date, British Airways has carried more than 1.3 million pounds of cargo and is on pace to carry 5.2 million pounds, easily surpassing last year’s total of 4.8 million pounds.

Those increases have propelled the carrier to become the fourth-largest airline by freight volume at PIT, only behind dedicated cargo airlines FedEx, UPS Airlines and Amazon Air.