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Delta operations return to normal after Monday's power outage
Delta Air Lines says its flight operations have now returned to normal after customers faced cancellations and delays this week as a result of a power outage in Atlanta on Monday morning.The power outage caused the airline to call a ground stop on Monday morning and while flights were re-started ...
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Brussels Airlines to launch Mumbai link
Brussels Airlines is to inaugurate services to Mumbai in March next year, forming its first link to an Asian destination.The carrier will fly Airbus A330 equipment to the Indian city’s Chhatrapati Shivaji airport five times a week.With a population of 20 million, Mumbai is amongst the 10 biggest cities in ...
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Emirates points to cargo potential for new Southeast Asian link
On 3 August, Emirates launch a daily, linked service that flies from Dubai to Yangon in Myanmar, before going onwards to Hanoi in Vietnam.Operated with Boeing 777-300ER equipment, the new service expands the airline’s network in Southeast Asia to 12 cities across seven countries.Yangon is the first destination within Myanmar ...
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Yusen boosts airfreight footprint in Mexico
Yusen Logistics, a Japan-headquartered third-party logistics provider, has opened an airfreight forwarding office branch in Guadalajara, Mexico.The Guadalajara Branch, which opened for business on 1 August, had added to what the company said is its “rapidly growing presence in Mexico and enables it to add new capability and flexibility and ...
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Finnair upgrades Helsinki-Heathrow connection
Finnair is to move to an all-A350 XWB operation on its Helsinki-London Heathrow service.The link is currently flown three times a week by A350 and twice a week by A320, but from 5 October Finnair will use the A350 on all five weekly frequencies.According to the airline, switching to the ...
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Broker and cargo carrier team up to support Solar Impulse
Globally active charter broker Chapman Freeborn and Volga-Dnepr, the Russian cargo charter carrier, have collaborated to provide logistics support for the round-the-world trip of Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), said to be the first aircraft able to fly day and night without fuel or polluting emissions.Solar Impulse became the first solar-powered ...
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MAG sees mixed picture for cargo volumes in July
The various airports owned and operated by the UK’s Manchester Airports Group – London Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth in addition to Manchester – enjoyed mixed fortunes in terms of their freight operations last month (July).Cargo volumes fell by 4% year-on-year at East Midlands to 27,153 tonnes, but there was ...
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Dragonair to take on KL route from Cathay Pacific
Dragonair is to operate services to Kuala Lumpur in March next year, taking over responsibility for the route from sister carrier Cathay Pacific.It will fly four times a day from its Hong Kong hub, the new services being phased in between March and May.Kuala Lumpur will become Dragonair’s third destination ...
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Gatwick hits the highs
London Gatwick International Airport achieved what it says was the “busiest-ever month in its 80-year history” in July, with the development of its long-haul network at the heart of that expansion.In particular, new routes to North America, established over the last 12 months by carriers such as WestJet, have represented ...
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Precision reaches the 60th 757 re-delivery landmark
Jacksonville, Florida-based Precision Aircraft Solutions has re-delivered its 60th 757 freighter conversion. And it has another nine more Boeing 757 aircraft currently going through its passenger to freighter conversion process.MSN 29312, Precision’s 60th re-delivery, is also its fifth conversion of the year for European Air Transport Leipzig Airline (EAT), the ...
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NewsWorld's Top 75 Cargo Airports 2015
Air Cargo News has put together a list of the world's top 75 busiest cargo airports in 2015. See below.
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Copenhagen expands network coverage
Looking back over the first half of this year, Copenhagen Airport says it had its busiest ever six months.Moreover, over the last 12 months, the airport authority – Copenhagen Airports (CPH) – says that 40 new routes have been launched out of the gateway.As well as new routes opened up ...
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Avinor looks to Asia potential
Avinor, the organisation responsible for managing 46 Norwegian airports, including the country’s busiest air gateway in Oslo, has prioritised efforts to improve air connections between Norway and Asia, pointing to potential benefits for both passengers and freight.As part of this strategy, Avinor appointed Ulv Elbirk in a consultancy role as ...
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Swiss to suspend Istanbul connection but seeks to continue serving the Turkish cargo market
Swiss International Air Lines has confirmed that it will cut its double daily Zurich-Istanbul Ataturk service from the beginning of this year’s winter schedule.According to a spokesperson for the carrier: “SWISS has decided to remove Istanbul from its programme with effect from winter 2016/17. All our destinations are subject to ...
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LATAM freight traffic on the slide
LATAM Cargo, the freight wing of Latin American carrier LATAM, flew 274m cargo ton miles in July, down by 9.5% on the same month of 2015.With capacity as measured by available ton kilometres down by 6.4% year on year, the cargo load factor also declined – by 1.6 percentage points ...
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San Francisco cargo volumes hold steady over fiscal year
Sa Francisco International Airport handled 39,283 tonnes of cargo (freight and mail) in June, up by 9.6% over the same month of 2015.Approximately two-thirds of the cargo was moving on international routes, one-third of it on domestic lanes.Over the course of the 2015-16 financial year (the airport’s financial year runs ...
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Air France-KLM Cargo struck by difficult July
In July, Air France-KLM Cargo flew 700m revenue cargo tonne kilometres, 6.7% than in the same month of last year.With capacity down by 3.2% year on year to 1.26bn cargo tonne kilometres, the load factor also deteriorated, by 2.1 percentage points to 55.5%.July’s performance is really only more of the ...
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American Airlines enjoys healthy July traffic
American Airlines Cargo flew 190.5m cargo ton miles in July, up by 5.7% on the same month of 2015.Over the first seven months of the year, the carrier flew a total of 1.35bn cargo ton miles, representing a year on year improvement of 1.2%.North America rival United Airlines reported similarly ...
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UPS rolls out Worldwide Express Freight offering to another nine countries
Integrator UPS has extended its Worldwide Express Freight service to a further nine countries across North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Indian sub-continent.New to the network for UPS’s dedicated service for urgent, time-sensitive and high-value international heavy shipments of over 70kg are Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Malta, Morocco, Pakistan, ...
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SEKO Logistics invests in new Hong Kong e-commerce facility
SEKO Logistics has added further warehousing and fulfilment capacity in Hong Kong as part of its effort to develop an ‘e-commerce gateway’ for retail and high-tech customers targeting China’s booming online consumer market.The global logistics services provider’s most recent investment in Hong Kong has seen it open a new 50,000 ...