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Liege opens first class lounge for four-legged VIPs
Liege Airport has officially opened a ‘Horse Inn’ for travelling equines, aiming to tap into growing demand for purpose-built resting and loading areas.The €2.6m facility will cater for all horses in transit at the Belgian gateway, whether by air or road.Liege Airport is also sponsoring top Belgian show jumper and ...
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Etihad's Hogan to become aviation group president and chief executive
James Hogan, who has served as Etihad Airways' president and chief executive since September 2006, has been appointed Etihad Aviation Group president and chief executive.The new management structure was announced by the Etihad Aviation Group board of directors, under the chairmanship of Mohamed Mubarak Al Mazrouei.Reporting to Hogan, the new ...
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Parma to be Etihad cargo hub
Etihad Airways has signed an exclusive agreement to develop cargo traffic at Parma airport in central Italy.The deal initially includes setting a transit centre at Parma Giuseppe Verdi to receive cargo for forwarding to Milan Malpensa Airport for onward transport.The new hub will feed traffic to and from flights operated ...
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CSafe appoints new sales director
ULD firm CSafe Global has appointed Sébastien Berrous as director of sales for France and Spain.As part of a vigorous expansion drive, which is seeing CSafe Global open new operational service centres around the world, Sébastien Berrous will be responsible for the company's overall business in France and Spain.Nadine Siqueland, ...
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Air New Zealand agrees to $35m in US air cargo cartel payout
Air New Zealand is the latest airline to reach a settlement with plaintiffs in the ongoing air cargo cartel lawsuit in the US.On Sunday, lawfirm Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer (KFK) announced that the airline had reached a $35m settlement, subject to court approval, pushing the total amount raised through agreements ...
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Saudia Cargo and Virgin Atlantic Cargo to expand partnership in the US
Saudi Airlines Cargo is hoping to expand its presence in the US through a new partnership with Virgin Atlantic Cargo.The deal will see Saudia Cargo offer its customers space on Virgin Atlantic Airlines flights in the US, particularly for cargo that requires special attention, such as flowers, fruit and seafood.Saudia ...
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LCI leases freighters to Turkish operator
LCI, the aviation leasing arm of the Libra Group, has increased its fleet of dedicated maindeck freighter aircraft.Two additional Boeing 747-400F aircraft are now flying for Qatar Airways and Saudia, Saudi Arabian Airlines, and are being operated by ACT Airlines, known as myCARGO Airlines, the Turkish wet-lease operator.The two Pratt ...
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Next Pegasus Cargo conference revealed
Pegasus Cargo, is hosting its sixth International Transport and Logistics Conference for the first time in Izmir on 12-13 October.The conference, in partnership with Dokuz Eylul University’s Maritime Faculty Department of Logistics Management, will take place on the university’s Tinaztepe Campus. The conference will be attended by numerous company spokespeople ...
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UK forwarders latest to urge action on runway decision
UK forwarder association the British International Freight Association (BIFA) has backed a Transport Committee report urging the government to make a decision over airport expansion.BIFA director general Robert Keen said that the 1,500 companies within BIFA share the Transport Committee’s belief that the delay risks damaging UK economic growth by ...
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UPS appoints Ireland chief
UPS has appointed Elisabeth Rodriguez as its country manager for UPS Ireland. A 16-year veteran of the express carrier, she takes over from Andy Smith who becomes transportation operations manager for the UK, Ireland and Nordics District, based out of London.Rodriguez started her career at UPS in 2001 in Dublin ...
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Hartsfield-Jackson honours air cargo heroes
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) and the Metro Atlanta Chamber handed out a string of awards to heroes of its local airfreight industry on May 4 and vowed to push the gateway up the US cargo league table.The annual ATL Cargo Awards celebration at the Airport’s North Cargo facility honoured ...
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China to invest billions in aviation
China is to invest 77 billion yuan ($11.9 billion) in aviation infrastructure this year, according to reports by the official Xinhua news agency.The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said the investment would focus initially at 11 new airport construction projects along with 52 upgrades to existing facilities.Part of the ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Turkish takes 26 Boeings
Record delivery to Turkish AirlinesBoeing is to deliver six 777-300ERs and 20 Next-Generation 737-800s to Turkish Airlines in 2016, a record for the carrier, said the US plane builder on 29 April. The new aircraft will be used on the carrier’s domestic and international long and short-haul services.Turkish Airlines’ chief ...
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DHL pilots balloted on strike action
Nearly 2,000 pilots at four of DHL’s five North American carriers - Atlas Air, Southern Air, Polar Air, ABX - are being balloted on strike action in a dispute over working conditions. Pilots at a fifth DHL carrier – Kalitta Air - have already voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ...
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German rail to sell a minority stake in Schenker
Deutsche Bahn (German railways) has confirmed plans to push ahead with the sale of a stake in its DB Schenker forwarding and logistics arm.It confirmed today (5 May) that the management board is to develop an implementation plan for a third-party minority holding in DB Schenker, as well as its ...
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TNT to sell overnight arm
TNT Express is to sell its TNT Innight overnight distribution subsidiary to private equity firm Special Situations Venture Partners III. TNT, which recently announced the approval of the Chinese competition authorfities of its acquisition by FedEx, said it wanted concentrate resources on strengthening its core express delivery activities. TNT Innight ...
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NewsIATA: 2016 shaping up to be a tough year for air cargo
IATA has warned 2016 is shaping up to be another tough year for air cargo as airfreight volumes fell in March.The latest statistics from the industry organisation show that cargo volumes decline by 2% year on year in March in freight tonne km (FTK) terms.Freight capacity (AFTK) during the month ...
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Time to take stock of e-AWB progress, says Champ’s new sales chief
Rather than wait for the proportion of the world’s airfreight using e-air waybills to tick up slowly towards a so-called ‘critical mass’ it is perhaps time to stop and ask why things are not working, says Nicholas Xenocostas, the new sales chief at Champ Cargosystems.It’s not that there has been ...
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Seko finds UK aerospace home
Seko Logistics has opened its first Centre of Excellence for the UK aerospace and aviation sector at Farnborough Airport near London.Seko already has similar centres in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, while its global aerospace and aviation headquarters is in Dallas, the second largest aerospace market in the world.Farnborough ...
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Terror attacks hit Brussels Airlines cargo Q1 results
Brussels Airlines says its cargo traffic in March was sharply down, due to the terrorist attacks on its home airport on March 22.The Lufthansa Group subsidiary said that cargo traffic was largely interrupted after that date and that the total of 2,609 tonnes reflected a decrease of 21% compared with ...