Patriot Express announces schedule for July and August

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Patriot Express announces schedule for July and August
By Vince Little, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Monday, June 9, 2008

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The Patriot Express schedule for planned biweekly missions in July and August has been arranged with Northwest Airlines, U.S. Forces Japan announced.

The flight will pass through Yokota on July 10-11 and July 24-25 on a roundtrip from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, and back. The following month, it’s set to stop here Aug. 7-8 and Aug. 20-21 as part of the same route.

Throughout June, the Patriot Express is transiting Yokota every Wednesday and Thursday but in the opposite direction, originating in Kadena.

U.S. Transportation Command and Northwest have not agreed to anything for September and beyond, but the military expects to reach a deal sometime in July, said Air Force Lt. Col. Mark Harris, USFJ’s acting deputy logistics director.

The carrier also will begin providing a Boeing 747 next month for the U.S. military’s only chartered commercial air service in the Pacific, replacing the Airbus 330 in use now.


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