All Airlines articles – Page 191
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Delta Cargo expands online portal functionality
Delta Cargo has expanded the functionality of its booking portal to cover all the different products it offers.The airline said that the expansion means that the full Delta product portfolio, including pharma, are now available on the platform while users will also now be able to track cargo by location, ...
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Korean Air in Laos relief flight
Korean Air provided emergency relief supplies for victims of the Laos dam collapse by flying in supplies such as mineral water and blankets.The supplies were flown in via flight KE461 from Incheon to Danang, Vietnam, and arrived at 13:55 PM on July 27.Korean Air’s 40-ton relief package also included 36,000 ...
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Air Canada Cargo adds Android app
Air Canada Cargo has expanded its iOS app to work on Android devices.The airline said that it had made the investment following customer feedback. The app will allow users to access flight schedules, track shipments and subscribe to text or email shipment notifications."Air Canada Cargo is committed to investing in ...
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NewsAir France KLM sees cargo revenues rise despite traffic decline
Air France KLM saw cargo revenues increase in the second quarter, despite a fall in traffic, while the overall airline group’s performance was affected by strike action.The latest financial results from the Franco-Dutch airline group show that cargo revenues increased by 7.3% year on year to €543m during the second ...
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NewsLufthansa Cargo sees revenues and profits rise in Q2
Higher pricing in the airfreight market helped propel profits at Lufthansa’s cargo business during the second quarter of the year.The German airline’s logistics division, which includes Lufthansa Cargo as well as Jettainer, time:matters and its equity investment in AeroLogic, saw total second-quarter revenues increase by 12.1% year on year to ...
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Oman Air Cargo's new Muscat facility helps boost freight traffic
Oman Air Cargo's new new freight facility at Muscat Airport has helped boost volumes during the first half of the year.The new cargo facility, which features a 22,780 sq m, air-conditioned warehouse with the capacity to handle 350,000 tons of cargo per annum, opened in March.The airline said that since ...
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IAG Cargo offers direct route to Pittsburgh in 2019
IAG Cargo has announced the launch from April 2019 of a year-round, four times a week passenger service from London Heathrow to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The only direct flight from the UK to Pittsburgh will be operated by the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, with a cargo payload of up to 14 tonnes per ...
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NewsAsia Cargo Monthly: Growth slowdown continues in June
Asian airlines continued to see cargo growth figures slow in June, despite a pick up towards the end of the month.Figures released by Cathay Pacific for June show that the Hong Kong-based airline saw cargo traffic increase by 5.5% year on year to 1bn cargo and mail revenue tonne kms.While ...
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Singapore Airlines sees cargo revenues rise in Q1 despite traffic decline
Singapore Airlines saw its cargo revenues jump during its financial first quarter, despite a drop in demand.Between April and June, the Asian airline saw cargo revenues increase by S$30m, or 6%, on the back of a yield increase of 9%, a reflection of the overall market trend.The improvement in yields ...
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Cathay Pacific homes in on real-time cargo tracking
Cathay Pacific is ramping up the trial of a new track and trace technology for cargo shipments after a successful test at its home hub.The Hong Kong airline, along with ULD firm Unilode and tracking technology provider OnAsset Intelligence, initially tested the practicality of using wireless devices in the multi-storey, ...
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United signs pharma ULD lease agreement
United Cargo has signed a global lease agreement with temperature controlled ULD firm Sonoco ThermoSafe.The agreement enables United Cargo’s TempControl customers to lease PharmaPort 360 temperature-controlled bulk shipping containers directly from the airline.Sonoco ThermoSafe says the PharmaPort 360 is the "industry’s only active temperature-controlled container" with a fully integrated, FAA-approved ...
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Asia airlines see cargo growth slow in June
Airlines in the Asia Pacific region saw cargo demand growth weaken in June in line with a slowdown in the manufacturing sector.According to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), carriers saw cargo traffic increase by 3.4% year on year in June, a slowdown on the 4.9% increase registered over ...
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Leisure Cargo joins cargo.one portal
Virtual airline Leisure Cargo is the latest airfreight provider to begin offering its services through online portal cargo.one.The tie-up means that forwarders will now be able to make digital booking of Leisure Cargo's global freight capacity based on live spot rates and receive immediate confirmation."With the help of cargo.one, Leisure ...
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LOT Cargo logs on for CHAMP's Cargospot Quotes and DataAnalytics
Poland's LOT Cargo has signed for two new CHAMP products, Cargospot Quotes and DataAnalytics.LOT Cargo has purchased eleven Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, and has four more on order, to service its new transatlantic routes. Both products will assist sales and revenue teams in support of this rapid expansion in cargo ...
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Airbus to study use of aircraft or unmanned systems to deliver medical supplies
Airbus and International SOS, the medical and security risk services company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly study the viability of using aircraft or unmanned systems to deliver medical cargo and supplies.Under the agreement, signed at the Farnborough International Airshow, Airbus will help to define and install ...
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Green fingered American Airlines moves record levels of asparagus
American Airlines Cargo has carried nearly 12m lbs (5,500 tonnes) of fresh asparagus around the world in the first six months of 2018"The majority of what we move is green asparagus, but we do move very small amounts of both the albino and purple varieties,” said Joe Goode, American Airlines ...
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Delta and Korean expand partnership to cover cargo
Delta Air Lines Cargo and Korean Air Cargo are launching new transpacific cargo co-operation in connection with the implementation of their joint venture partnership.The partnership means the two carriers will be able to share space on each others aircraft flying between the US and Asia.The combined network formed by the ...
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FIS publishes first airfreight futures forward curve
Freight Investor Services (FIS), which specialises in shipping derivatives, has published the first airfreight forward price curve, "beginning a new era of risk management in this $70bn freight market".FIS has spent 12 months working with index provider TAC Index to develop a "robust methodology" for the airfreight market which accounts ...
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IAG Cargo: lettuce help as green veg shortage is the tip of the iceberg
IAG Cargo is reporting a spike in lettuce volumes as a heatwave results in a shortage of green vegetables.The freight arm of British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus said that it had completed a single shipment of over 30,000 heads of iceberg lettuce from Los Angeles to meet a gap ...
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HNA Group co-founder Wang dies after an accident in France
Wang Jian, co-founder and chairman of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, has died in an accident while on a business trip in Provence, France.Bloomberg, quoting a police source in France, said that Wang, aged 57, died on Tuesday morning after falling from a 15-meter high cliff while having his photograph taken ...