All Airlines articles – Page 196
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SkyTeam Cargo rebrands core products
Cargo alliance SkyTeam Cargo has announced that its four core products have undergone a rebrand.Operationally the services will remain the same, but effective from today they will operate under a new look and names that better reflect each of the offerings.The refresh sees Equation change to Express, Dimension renamed to ...
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Virgin Atlantic sees disappointing 2017 results – but cargo news is good
Virgin Atlantic has reported its financial results for the 2017 calendar year.The carrier made a pre-tax loss of £28.4m in what it said had been a “challenging macro-economic environment”.The news was better in the Virgin Atlantic Cargo business. Its revenues grew by 9.3% over 2016 to reach £199.3m, thanks in ...
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Cathay Pacific looks back at improved cargo results in 2017
Ronald Lam, director commercial and cargo at Cathay Pacific, has cast an eye back at a much-improved year for the airline’s freight business in 2017.Earlier this month (March), Cathay Pacific announced that it had enjoyed “robust” cargo demand throughout 2017, with tonnage growth outpacing an increase in offered capacity.The cargo ...
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United Airlines suspends PetSafe offering
US carrier United has temporarily stopped accepting bookings for pets travelling in the cargo hold via its PetSafe service, while it conducts a review of its offering for pet travel.It will honour any existing reservations on the product made prior to March 20.The suspension of the PetSafe service does not ...
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AF KLM Cargo confirms summer schedule plans
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has announced its summer schedule.Air France KLM Martinair Cargo will be offering freight capacity on approximately 1,115 weekly services to 116 destinations across the joint network, and this summer will see the addition of a number of new connections on which cargo capacity will be ...
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Pharma and e-commerce boost Virgin Atlantic cargo tonnage
Virgin Atlantic Cargo transported 230,500 tonnes of cargo last year, up 6% in comparison to its 2016 total - a five-year high.On the back of the volume growth, Virgin Atlantic Cargo’s revenue rose 9% year on year to £199.6m.In terms of verticals, perishables, high-value shipments, pharmaceuticals and e-commerce provided the ...
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ANA becomes first Japanese airline to sign up to Buckingham Palace wildlife declaration
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has become the first Japanese airline to sign up to the United for Wildlife (UFW) Buckingham Palace Declaration on the illegal trade in wildlife.By signing up to the declaration the airline will aim to increase passenger, customer, client, and staff awareness about the nature, scale, and ...
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Hong Kong Air Cargo launches trucking service
Freight carrier Hong Kong Air Cargo has launched a ground transportation operation, Hong Kong Air Cargo Logistics, that will serve the local Hong Kong market in tandem with the airline.Zeng Meng, assistant chief executive officer of Hong Kong Air Cargo, said: “With the completion of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai-Macao bridge, the ...
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RJ to resume Erbil and Sulaymaniyah flights
Following Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi’s announcement on March 13 that Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports in Iraq would be reopened, Royal Jordanian will relaunch scheduled flights to the two cities on April 1.The carrier will fly from Amman to Erbil 10 times a week and to Sulaymaniyah four times a ...
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LATAM revenues rise
LATAM Airlines Group has revealed the first annual revenue expansion since the combination of LAN and TAM in 2011, reporting a year-on-year rise in revenues of 6.7% to $10,163.8m for 2017.Cargo activity contributed 11% ($1,119.4m) of the total operating revenue for the year.Statistics for 2017 as compared to 2016 showed ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo doubles Jo’burg flights
On October 28, Virgin Atlantic Cargo will double its services between London and Johannesburg with the launch of a second daily flight using a Boeing 787-9 aircraft that can carry up to 24 tonnes of cargo.Meanwhile, the carrier will open a local Contact Centre this April to support customers in ...
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Brussels load factor dips
Brussels Airlines has posted a slight decline in its cargo load factor for February, down 1.8 percentage points year on year at 74%.Freight volumes carried in the airline’s bellyhold space “grew significantly” during the month, rising 35% – but capacity grew faster. Available ton-km stood at 167.446 while revenue ton-km ...
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Lufthansa achieves best results yet
Lufthansa Group achieved its best-ever results in 2017, with total revenues up 12.4% to €35.6bn and earnings growth primarily driven by its airlines – including cargo.A combination of cost reductions and strong demand helped Lufthansa Cargo to improve its adjusted EBIT by almost €300m to €242m, a statement said.For the ...
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Spohr to stay on as Lufthansa CEO
Carsten Spohr is to remain in his post as chief executive of Deutsche Lufthansa for another five-year term.The group’s supervisory board has extended SPohr’s contract through December 2023. He has been a member of the executive board of Deutsche Lufthansa since 2011 and its chief executive since 2014.The board’s chairman, ...
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IATA e-DGD: “a powerful step forward”
IATA has adopted e-Dangerous Goods Declaration (e-DGD) standards at the World Cargo Symposium taking place in Dallas, Texas on March 13-15.An electronic approach to managing the IATA Dangerous Goods Declaration (DGD), the e-DGD leverages industry initiatives to digitise data and embrace data-sharing platform principles, the association said.Implementation of e-DGD supports ...
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SkyCargo latest to receive Cargo iQ certification
Hot on the heels of the IATA Cargo iQ certifications awarded on March 13 (to Menzies Aviation, Qatar Airways Cargo and Kuehne + Nagel), Emirates SkyCargo has also received the seal of approval during the World Cargo Symposium currently under way in Dallas, Texas.IATA’s external auditor SGS looked at the ...
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‘Giant step forward’ for dangerous goods compliance
IATA has launched a new digital solution, Dangerous Goods AutoCheck (DG AutoCheck), that allows the air cargo supply chain to check the compliance of shippers’ Declaration for Dangerous Goods (DGD) against the association’s Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR).“The air transport industry handles in excess of 1.25 million dangerous goods shipments transported ...
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Air France-KLM adds summer capacity
Air France-KLM is upping its long-haul passenger capacity this summer, resulting in additional belly space on a number of routes.Air France will begin flying from Paris-Charles de Gaulle to Nairobi (three times a week by Boeing 787) and Seattle (five weekly B777-200 flights) on March 25; three times a week ...
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Lufthansa Cargo launches new APIs
Lufthansa Cargo is offering customers direct access to capacity and rate data through two new APIs (application programming interfaces).Users can obtain and process the information available via GetCapacity and GetRates quickly and easily in their own systems without the need for manual upload.The carrier also pointed out that real-time data ...
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Cathay: “robust” cargo demand in 2017
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways saw “robust” cargo demand throughout 2017, with tonnage growth outpacing increases in capacity.The cargo capacity of Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon increased by 3.6% year on year and tonnage rose by 10.9%. The load factor stood at 67.8%, up by 3.4 percentage points on the ...