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Denis Ilin steps down as AirBridgeCargo executive president
Denis Ilin, executive president of AirBridgeCargo Airlines, has resigned after three years in accordance with mutual agreements.Ilin started his management career in AirBridgeCargo Airlines as director of operations. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as general director of the airline and later rejoined AirBridgeCargo team in 2013 to hold the ...
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AirBridgeCargo beats annual tonnage record
Fast growing AirBridgeCargo beat its annual tonnage record last month, its thirteenth consecutive year of growth, as it continues to expand fleet and network.The all-cargo airline recorded a 30% improvement in demand in October to 57,608 tonnes bringing its total for the first ten months of the year to 498,177 ...
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NewsSeattle welcomes new AirBridgeCargo B747 to Sea-Tac Airport
Port of Seattle celebrated a new cargo freighter service - and aircraft - from AirBridgeCargo (ABC) with a dedication event at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-TAC).The ABC service will include two incoming flights per week from Moscow with outbound flights to Amsterdam and Frankfurt.Port of Seattle Commissioner John Creighton led a ...
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AirBridgeCargo continues US expansion
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) has continued the expansion of its US services with the introduction of a new call at fast-growing Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) airport.The flight, which also calls at Moscow, Amsterdam, and Chicago, makes Seattle the airline’s sixth online gateway in North America.ABC said that Seattle is not only one of the ...
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AirBridgeCargo wins rights for new US destinations
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) has won the rights to operate scheduled operations to several new destinations in the US.Documents seen by Air Cargo News show the Russian scheduled freighter airline has won the rights to operate flights from the Russian Federation to Seattle (Washington) Columbus (Ohio), Boston (Massachusetts) Washington DC and San ...
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Chongqing is sixth Chinese city for AirBridgeCargo
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added flights to leading commercial centre Chongqing to its network from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, its sixth Chinese destination.The new twice-weekly service operates on Wednesday and Friday, and will be linked with ABC's Shanghai flights returning to Moscow, complementing its frequencies and accommodating cargo flows from central ...
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AirBridgeCargo adds Phnom Penh to southeast Asian network
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) is expanding its Southeast Asia coverage with the introduction of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to its network, increasing its number of destinations in the region to 11.The new Boeing 747 freighter service to Cambodia’s capital will operate on a weekly basis en route from Moscow (SVO)-Singapore-Phnom Penh and ...
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AirBridgeCargo adds new weekly freighter service from US to Middle East
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) will today introduce a new weekly US-Europe-Middle East-Russia service aimed to cater for the oil and gas industries.The service will set off from Houston on Monday evenings before heading to Chicago, Luxembourg and then onto Abu Dhabi before returning via Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.ABC vice president North and ...
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Record start to the year for AirBridgeCargo
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) had a record breaking start to 2016 but has warned of a challenging year ahead.The Russian airline recorded a 30% year-on-year increase in demand in January to a new high for the month of 43,605 tons after it added new freighters and expanded its network last year.Newly-launched ...
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AirBridgeCargo reports double-digit airfreight growth as it looks ahead to 2016
AirBridgeCargo Airlines’ (ABC) strong growth continued in November with a 27% upswing in cargo carried compared to the same month a year ago.In November, ABC transported more than 50,000 tonnes and for the first 11 months of 2015 volumes jumped by 20% year-on-year to 439,000 tonnes.ABC executive president Denis Ilin ...
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AirBridgeCargo renews safety certificate
Russia’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has renewed its IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) for a further two years following a five-day independent audit.Inspectors reviewed the carrier’s flight performance, operating control, maintenance and ground handling, aviation security and quality management under the standard two-year re-evaluation scheme.IOSA certified airlines have a crash rate ...
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AirBridgeCargo hopes to capitalise on domestic Russian market
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) hopes to capitalise on growth in the domestic Russian market as import demand to the country and the wider CIS region comes under pressure.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit, ABC regional sales director Russia & CIS Oleg Makushkin told delegates that despite the difficult market conditions there ...
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AirBridgeCargo satisfies Russia's demand for flowers
ROMANTIC Russians provided a business boost for AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the country’s largest cargo carrier, with a big rise in floral imports ahead of St Valentine’s Day.ABC transported some 1,400 tonnes of cut-flowers from Amsterdam to Moscow, an 18 per cent increase over the same period in 2013.Denis Ilin, executive ...
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Paperless cockpit for AirBridgeCargo
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) has adopted Lufthansa Systems' Lido/iRouteManual, Lido/Enroute and Lido/DocView IT solutions to move to paperless cockpit systems.The new IT systems are designed to ease the workload of ABC pilots with flight deck crew iPads continually updated with documents and data, and with up to date charts, downloadable directly from ...
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AirBridgeCargo up five per cent
RUSSIAN carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) achieved a five per cent hike in tonnage (340,000 tonnes) in 2013 – the highest ever volume across its network linking Europe, Russia, Asia and North America.Russia’s largest international scheduled cargo airline reports that the uplift improvement on all of its major routes was matched ...
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AirBridgeCargo Airlines adds fifth B747-8F
AIRBRIDGECARGO AIRLINES (ABC), Russia’s largest international scheduled freight airline, has taken delivery of its fifth brand new B747-8F.The new ‘plane, part of the carrier’s fleet modernisation stratagem, will be used on its existing route network linking Europe, Asia and the United States via its hub in Moscow.AirBridgeCargo's fleet consists of ...
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Denis Ilin becomes AirBridgeCargo Airlines' new executive president
DENIS ILIN has been appointed executive president of AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest international scheduled cargo airline.Ilin has worked for several years as head of aviation at Basic Element, a Russian financial and industrial conglomerate, where his main responsibilities included aviation business development.He previously held several leadership roles in ABC ...
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AirBridgeCargo begins US flights
RUSSIA’s largest scheduled cargo airline AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has launched its first North American service with three flights a week to Chicago (US).The new route will operate from ABC’s hub in Moscow to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. The airline will serve Chicago with a 747-400 freighter offering ...
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AirBridgeCargo first Traxon customer in Russia
AIRBridgeCargo Airlines has become Traxon Europe’s first customer in Russia after the two companies signed an agreement for the provision of cargo information services.The agreement was signed by Tatyana Arslanova, executive vice-president of ABC, and Felix Keck, managing director of Traxon Europe.“We are always looking to improve communications with our ...
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AirBridgeCargo to serve Zhengzhou
AIRBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines is extending its all-cargo services from China with a new twice-weekly 747-400 freighter flight from Zhengzhou to Europe.Flights from the capital of Henan province will depart from Zhengzhou International Airport every Wednesday and Saturday to ABC’s hub in Moscow and then continue onto Frankfurt (Germany) connecting central ...