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People update 17 June
Aer Lingus Cargo has announced Peter O’Neill (pictured) as its director cargo, replacing Remo Hanselmann, who will return to Zurich (Switzerland) to join the Hans Mars communications agency. Peter joined Aer Lingus in 1989 and has held senior management positions on both the commercial and operational side of the business.RICHARD ...
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Chilean ash cloud hits Western Australia
CHILE’S volcanic ash cloud continues to spread, causing increasing disruption to aviation in the southern Asia Pacific region.The eruption in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano range of the Andes began on 4 June. The cloud has spread over 9,000 km (5,600 miles) and now reached Western Australia. Jetstar, Qantas, South African ...
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NZ courts fine three freight forwarders
ALL eyes have been on the Department of Justice proceedings against price-fixing airlines in the US, but meanwhile in New Zealand freight forwarders are under fire for similar charges.The High Court (pictured right) in Auckland has ordered BAX Global, which is being integrated with DB Schenker, to pay NZ$1.4 million ...
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Clock is ticking for Vietnamese carriers
VIETNAM’S Indochina Airways and Trai Thien Air Cargo now have less than two weeks to clear their debts or the two carriers will lose their licences.Indochina Airways stopped flying in 2009 while Trai Thien Air Cargo, which launched last year, has yet to start flying. Both have large debts – ...
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Dubai traffic boom calls for cooperation
A FIVE-FOLD increase in aircraft movements in Dubai over the last 25 years is putting pressure on already constrained airspace and infrastructure.Aircraft movements grew from 63,000 in 1985 to over 307,000 in 2010. By 2020 aircraft movements will surpass 560,000 and cargo volumes will top 4.1 million metric tonnes at ...
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Deccan 360 grounded
INDIA’S Deccan 360 cargo airline has been grounded for defaulting on its loans.Aviation entrepreneur, Gorur Gopinath (right), started the cargo airline last year in an attempt to modernise the growing domestic cargo market. The carrier leased three A310Fs, one ATR 42-300F and three ATR 72-200Fs. Now Mauritius-based lessor Veling has ...
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Strict CASS rules overturned
FORWARDERS and airlines have reached a landmark agreement on changes to the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Cargo Accounts Settlement System (CASS) in Europe.Until the recent global financial crisis, the requirement for forwarders to undergo a financial assessment by IATA had largely been dormant. However, the crisis sparked an about-turn ...
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A Middle Eastern monopoly
THE latest IATA report estimates that global air cargo will increase to 400 million tonnes a year by 2050 and international air cargo revenues are expected to rise above US$70 billion for the first time.An increasing amount of this will originate from Middle Eastern carriers, which are ramping up fleet ...
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Top cargo hub considers expansion
HONG Kong International Airport (HKIA), the world’s biggest hub for cargo, is evaluating the need for a third runway to accommodate the rise in freight traffic.During the first quarter of 2011 cargo volume rose to 944,000 tonnes.National airline Cathay Pacific also became the world’s largest international air cargo carrier. Cathay ...
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Airport Update 1 June
IN Europe, during the autumn, work will begin at Billund Airport (Denmark) to expand the existing cargo facilities by 2,215m², to a total of 13,000m². The extra floor space will accommodate a new, state-of-the-art facility for loading of cargo pallets, and five new loading ramps to secure fast handling of ...
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Mumbai Customs agents protest theft
CUSTOMS agents at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai (India) went on strike yesterday (26 May) bringing cargo processing to a standstill. The agents claimed to be protesting against poor facilities at the airport. This is the second time there has been a strike at the airport over the same ...
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Volcanic ash cloud update
ICELAND’S Grimsvötn volcano has stopped erupting and the ash cloud slowly dispersing as it moves across northern Europe. Disrupted flights in the UK are returning to normal. While there is still some concern that weather conditions could blow the remains of the cloud back into regular flight paths later in ...
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Volcanic ash cloud update
AIRLINES have cancelled and delayed flights across Scotland and Northern England (UK) as a result of the spreading ash cloud from the Icelandic Grímsvötn volcano. Services have been affected by nervous airlines at the following airports: Barra, Carlisle, Cumbernauld, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Prestwick and Tiree.However, some deny ...
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More delays plague 747-8 deliveries
BOEING looks like it will suffer another delay to its first 747-8 delivery. Already 18 months late, the aircraft’s first delivery – to Cargolux – is likely to be knocked back six to eight weeks from its latest, mid-year, estimate.Two analysts – Cai Von Rumohr of Cowen & Co and ...
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Icelandic volcano casts pall over Europe
ANOTHER Icelandic volcano has erupted, sending a growing cloud of ash into the atmosphere. The eruption of Grímsvötn volcano, 400km from the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, has sparked fears that Europe will see a repeat of last year’s disastrous airspace closures, when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted, that crippled European aviation ...
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Airbus aid acceptable, WTO rules
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) appeal panel said launch aid worth billions of euros for Airbus’ A380 was legal under global trade rules.In a bitter decade-long battle Boeing’s latest claim was that Airbus received prohibited export subsidies.“The central US claim has been dismissed in its entirety,” Karel De Gucht, the ...
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Lufthansa bags 777F quintet
LUFTHANSA Cargo has confirmed its US$1.35 billion order for five 777Fs.Lufthansa Cargo first announced its intention to order the freighters in March 2011.AeroLogic, a joint venture between Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Express, became the fourth carrier to operate the 777 Freighter in May 2009.The 777 freighter is the world’s longest ...
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Air France-KLM cargo profits climb 30 per cent
A STRONG fourth quarter has helped Air France-KLM back to profit for the 2010/2011 financial year.During the last quarter cargo traffic was stable for capacity up by 2.6 per cent, leading to a 1.8 per cent drop in load factor to 67.7 per cent. Unit revenue per available tonne kilometre ...
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WFS expands European footprint
HEATHROW Airport’s (UK) largest cargo handler, Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), has just gotten bigger thanks to a new Continental Airlines contract, and contracts in Spain and the Netherlands.At Heathrow (pictured), Continental has transferred its business to WFS to join forces with merger partner, United Airlines. WFS has also acquired the ...
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Qantas penalty kick-starts cartel case
FIRST in the firing line at the New Zealand Commerce Commission’s case against the price-fixing cartel today was Qantas, which has been ordered to pay a record NZ$6.5 million (US$5.1 million) fine.The pre-trial settlement could have been as much as NZ$13 million ($10.2 million) but the judge gave a 50 ...