Worldwide Flight Services has been awarded a cargo-handling contract for Qatar Airways Cargo’s new twice-weekly Boeing 777F flight to Pittsburgh International Airport.

“We are delighted to be continuing to grow our international services for Qatar Airways and to be awarded this contract to support its latest new freighter route to and from the US,” said Barry Nassberg, group chief commercial officer of WFS. “The WFS team in Pittsburgh is committed to ensuring Qatar Airways and its cargo customers receive the highest standards of security, safety and quality of service.”

The carrier launched the flight earlier this month with a Doha-Luxembourg-Atlanta-Pittsburgh-Luxembourg-Doha routing and became the first international scheduled freighter operator at the airport, adding approximately 200 tonnes of cargo capacity a week to support the state of Pennsylvania.

Qatar Airways already offers approximately 100 tonnes of belly capacity every week with its daily Airbus A350-900 passenger flight between Doha and Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania.