All Airlines articles – Page 187
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Emirates SkyCargo reaches Cargo iQ milestone
Emirates SkyCargo has monitored nearly 823,000 shipments using Cargo iQ guidelines in the first six months since it received certification.According to data published by Cargo iQ, Emirates SkyCargo is one of the largest air cargo carriers for the total number of shipments tracked using Cargo iQ metrics and the carrier ...
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Puppy Louie is on Kenya Airways' inaugural flight from JFK to Nairobi
Kenya Airways has launched its first non-stop service between JFK New York and JKIA–Nairobi, making it the first airline to offer a non-stop flight between East Africa and the US.The airline already serves Africa, Europe, Middle-East, Indian sub-continent and Asia. The opening of the US destination completes an "essential piece" ...
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Top dog Air France KLM is the cat's whiskers for pet transport
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP Cargo) emerged as a prize winner at the Annual International Pet and Animal Association (IPATA) conference in Melbourne. AFKLMP Cargo won the most votes in the Best Pet Shipping Airline for Asia & Oceania category.Gerald Bergkamp, director specialties at AFKLMP Cargo, said: “We are ...
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Air cargo supply growth outstrips demand in September
Air cargo capacity additions outstripped traffic growth in September as key demand drivers continued to soften.The latest figures from IATA show that there was a 2% increase in freight tonne kms in September, which is relatively unchanged from the previous month.However, it is less than half the five-year average growth ...
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Virgin Atlantic at the double for South Africa cargo capacity
Virgin Atlantic Cargo can now offer a second daily service connecting London Heathrow and Johannesburg, using bellyhold capacity on a Boeing 787-9 passenger service.The launch also gives "a welcome boost" to Virgin Atlantic customers in the US, who now have access to additional cargo capacity to South Africa over London.A ...
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Singapore Airlines to add fifth US destination in 2019
Singapore Airlines will begin non-stop flights to Seattle in September 2019, bringing the total number of US destinations in its network to five, including the Los Angeles service that will commence this week.The Seattle service will operate three times a week at first, increasing to four times weekly in October ...
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Air Canada Q3 revenue hits record high
Air Canada’s third-quarter results showed growth of 11% in operating revenue, which exceeded C$5bn for the first time in the carrier’s history.Operating expenses of C$4.6bn were up 17% compared to the same quarter of 2017, mainly driven by higher fuel prices and increased capacity.In terms of its cargo activities, the ...
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Chilean court approves LATAM agreements with American Airlines and IAG
A Chilean court has approved LATM Airline Group’s joint business agreements (JBAs) with American Airlines and International Airlines Group (IAG), the holding company of British Airways and Iberia.The agreements, covering both passenger and cargo activities, were first announced in 2016 and have already been approved by the regulatory bodies of ...
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Airfreight volumes in first year-on-year decline since March 2016
Analyst WorldACD Market Data has reported a year-on-year decrease in global airfreight volumes of 0.9% for September – the first negative growth figure for two-and-a-half years.Airline revenues kept growing, however, thanks to a strengthening yield, although fuel costs were around 32% higher than one year ago.Given the marginal growth in ...
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Ethiopian bellyhold to connect West Africa with Los Angeles
Ethiopian Airlines is to offer three-times-a-week direct passenger flights connecting Western Africa with the US West Coast when it alters the routeing on one of its services in December.The Addis Ababa-based carrier’s ultra-long haul Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights from its home base to Los Angeles will make a stop at ...
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Heathrow adds direct link to China’s Silicon Valley
The first direct flight linking London Heathrow with Shenzhen has touched down at the UK gateway.The Shenzhen Airlines Airbus A330-300 passenger service, which operates three times a week and represents the carrier’s first long-haul route, is part of Heathrow’s continuing expansion of its Chinese connections.Starting the year with five links ...
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Lufthansa Cargo performance bolsters Group Q3 results
Strong demand and continuing high yields at Lufthansa Cargo resulted in the Group’s Logistics business segment raising its nine-month adjusted EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) 56.1% to €153 m.However, despite the strong performance in both cargo and the core airlines of the Group (Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines), significant ...
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Capacity outstrips demand for Asia Pacific airlines in September
Asia Pacific airlines saw demand for international air cargo grow in September compared to the same month last year, but the freight load factor declined.Preliminary traffic figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) show that international air cargo demand in freight tonne kilometres (FTK) grew by 4.4% ...
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IATA warns of ‘no deal Brexit’ chaos
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for urgent action by the UK and the European Union to put in place contingency planning for the continuation of air services in the event of a ‘no-deal Brexit’, and to move much faster to bring certainty to three critical air transport ...
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Etihad Airways and Saudia include cargo in new co-operation
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) and Etihad Airways have agreed a new codeshare partnership and announced plans for greater commercial co-operation in other fields, including cargo.The agreement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s national flag carrier and Etihad, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, also includes closer co-operation on ...
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Low cost carrier Jetstar Asia increases cargo volumes
Jetstar Asia is predicting it will carry more than 15,000 tons of cargo this year, a 25% increase on last year’s total.Operating with a fleet of A320s, the low cost carrier serves 30 destinations in southeast and north Asia as well as Darwin in Australia from its hub in Singapore.Jetstar ...
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IBA’s new aviation platform for investors and lessors is on-line
Aviation consultancy IBA Group has launched an online platform, IBA iQ Trends, for investors, lessors, airlines and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).Unlike other static aviation and airline data sets, IBA iQ Trends combines key economic data and world events in real time, with historical, current and future values and lease rates ...
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Air France reaches pay agreement with key unions
Air France and the unions representing its ground staff and cabin crew have signed an agreement that includes a general pay increase of 2%, backdated to January 2018, and a general pay increase of 2% from January 2019.The unions party to the agreement represent 76.4% of the employees who voted ...
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Animals carried as cargo force Lufthansa to ban dry ice
Lufthansa Cargo has “provisionally decided” not to transport dry ice in the bellies of Boeing 747 passenger aircraft, due to potential clashes with live animals being shipped in the same hold.After initial confusion about whether a ban was in place when contacted by Air Cargo News last week, a Lufthansa ...
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AAPA concerned by tensions between major trading nations
With Asian airlines carrying more than one third of global airfreight volumes, concerns over ongoing trade tensions are being closely monitored given the potential negative impact on trade flows and global supply chains, said the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).The association’s Assembly of Presidents is holding its 62nd meeting ...