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Eight decades on, still the fastest to Singapore

IAG Cargo celebrated 80 years of flying freight to Singapore - the first regular service by its ancestor, Imperial Airways landed there on 9 December, 1933. The arguments for using freight remain just as pertinent as when the brochure was published, even though in those days the journey to Singapore took 10 days – compared to just 12hrs 55mins today – and involved four different aircraft as well as a leg ... [+]

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