All Airlines articles – Page 177
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UK Aviation 2050: Airfreight must play a defining role
Alex Veitch, head of multimodal policy at the Freight Transport Association (FTA), explains why the cargo sector should be a central part of the UK's aviation strategy, currently under discussion.Airfreight currently represents around 40% by value of the UK’s imports and exports, and as the UK seeks to supplement European ...
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Save the date: Air Cargo News Awards and Conference
Air Cargo News is delighted to announced that the Cargo Airline of the Year awards and Air Cargo Conference will take place on April 24, 2020.The one-day conference and awards ceremony will once again be held at the Runnymede on Thames Hotel near Heathrow Airport.This year's event saw more than ...
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Air cargo must invest to prepare for personalised medicines
A new report from DHL Global Forwarding and American Airlines Cargo has outlined the investments the logistics industry needs to make to prepare for the growth of personalised medicines in Latin America.The report “Patients, Processes and Partnerships: The Path to Personalized Medicine in Latin America” looks at the future of ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo eyes a digital future
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has just announced that it is the first to adopt the 8.0 version of the cloud-enabled, end-to-end Accenture Freight & Logistics Software (AFLS) platform which Accenture says will “reinvent the way [Virgin] communicate and operate with customers, employees and partner ecosytems.”Reinvent in what way exactly? And who ...
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Garuda Indonesia plans to launch drone network
Airline Garuda Indonesia is hoping to develop a fleet of as many as 100 drones to deliver cargo across the Indonesian archipelago.A Bloomberg report said that the airline would conduct trial flights utilising three Beihang UAS Technology BKZ-005 drones starting in September.Full operations are expected to start next year carrying ...
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NewsAir Europa expands Nordic GSA deal to include Finland and Norway
Air Europa has appointed Nordic GSA as its sales agent covering Finland and Norway.The deal comes shortly after the airline appointed the GSA, which is part of the ECS group, to look after its cargo business in Sweden.“It’s always extremely rewarding when an airline wants to take an existing partnership ...
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Forwarders sign up for IATA's new rate platform
DB Schenker, Agility Logistics and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics have signed up to IATA's new air cargo rates platform, IATA Net Rates.IATA Net Rates aims to digitise the process of airlines and GSAs distributing rate sheets to forwarders using Excel spreadsheets and email, which the airline group said is "labor-intensive and ...
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NewsAir cargo continues to face weak market conditions with 'hefty' declines in Asia
The latest figures from IATA have confirmed air cargo continued to face weak market conditions in May.Data from the airline association show that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), decreased by 3.4% in May compared with the same period in 2018.This was a slight improvement on the 5.6% contraction ...
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Bill Flynn to retire as Atlas Air Worldwide CEO
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has announced that President and Chief Executive Officer William Flynn will retire from the company on January 1, after a 13-year tenure, and become Chairman of the Board on that date.The board has appointed John Dietrich, current Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, as Flynn’s ...
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NewsNo recovery in sight for air cargo
The latest figures from WorldACD do not offer any hopes for a recovery in air cargo growth this year, according to the analyst.Figures show that the total chargeable weight of cargo decreased by 5% year on year in May, whilst yields in US dollar terms were down 5.6% on a ...
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Caribbean Cargo expands network with Alaska interline agreement
Caribbean Airlines Cargo has entered into an interline agreement with Alaska Airlines, which expands its cargo network by a further sixteen destinations.The arrangement enables the movement of cargo to several locations such as Anchorage, Hawaii, Utah, Oregon and Nevada.The move comes as part of moves to expand its network with ...
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NewsJohn Lloyd finds his feet at Air Canada Cargo
John Lloyd - Air Canada CargoJohn Lloyd joined Air Canada Cargo in January but officially took up the role of director of cargo for the Europe, Middle East and India region in April.Lloyd is well known and respected in the air cargo industry having worked at Virgin Atlantic Cargo ...
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Retailers hopeful as US holds back on plan for more tariffs on Chinese goods
US retailers have expressed hope that progress made during talks between President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Japan will lead to the end of the two countries’ trade war.On Saturday, the US President said that he would hold off imposing 25% tariffs on ...
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Air Canada completes Transat acquisition
Air Canada and Transat announced today that they have concluded a definitive Arrangement Agreement that provides for Air Canada's acquisition of all issued and outstanding shares of Transat and its combination with Air Canada.Under the terms of the binding agreement, unanimously approved by the Board of Directors of Transat, Air ...
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Cathay Pacific Cargo says flexibility is key in tough market
Cathay Pacific believes that an agile approach to making network changes will help the carrier combat current weak market conditions.Writing in the airline's Cargo Clan publication, head of cargo markets and products John Cheng said that it is well known that cargo is a cyclical business and that "all signs ...
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IATA responds to Dutch plans for green tax on air cargo and passengers
IATA has published research claiming that people would rather see investment in green aviation technology than "environmental taxes" following the Dutch government announcing plans for a new tax on air cargo and air travel.The Dutch government has submitted proposals to introduce a charge of €3.85 per tonne of cargo for ...
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Trade tariffs hit Asia Pacific airfreight in May
Trade tariffs impacted Asian Pacific air cargo demand, which fell again in May “as export activity continued to slow in the face of challenging business conditions”.Preliminary traffic figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) saw the region's airlines register a 6.5% fall in air cargo demand as ...
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Korean Air signs five-year ULD deal with Unilode
Korean Air has awarded the management of its entire fleet of more than 16,000 containers and pallets to Unilode Aviation Solutions for a five-year term.As part of the deal, Unilode will setup a regional ULD management office at Korean Air's hub in Incheon and takeover Korean Air's existing ULD maintenance ...
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NewsFTA wants air cargo at centre of the UK's aviation strategy
The UK's Freight Transport Association (FTA) has called on the country's government to place air cargo at the centre of its aviation strategy.The UK government recently launched a consultation on its future aviation strategy and the FTA would like a dedicated freight chapter in white paper with a "clear and ...
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Cargo volumes down at Cathay Pacific in May
The Cathay Pacific Group saw its cargo volumes decline again in May, with demand shrinking by 3.9% year on year to 168,270 tonnes.The cargo and mail load factor fell by 4.7 percentage points to 63.9%. Capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometres (AFTKs), was up by 4.6% while cargo and ...