All Airlines articles – Page 209
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Comment: Has Amazon really added flights to China? UPDATED
Reports circulating this morning [June 1] suggest that Amazon has launched “direct air cargo flights” between the US and China.The report, originating from the Xinhua news agency, suggests that the e-commerce giant has added flights from New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport in the Henan ...
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UK aerospace calls for "refresh" on Brexit strategy
Britain’s £32bn turnover aerospace industry, second in size only to the US, has called for a “refresh” of the UK government’s Brexit strategy as talks on terms for leaving the European Union (EU) begin in earnest next week.The UK’s Aerospace Defence Security (ADS) trade organisation has also repeated “serious doubts” ...
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AA Cargo's Butler: differentiate and improve visibility or risk losing business
American Airlines Cargo has called on the airfreight industry to differentiate itself from competitors and potential new market entrants or risk losing market share.AA Cargo president Jim Butler said the risk of standing still and not differentiating was more significant than in the past as ocean carriers and integrators improved ...
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NewsAir cargo innovation: Looking into the future
How does the traditional air cargo industry handle digitisation of the supply chain and also compete with start-up logistics companies offering shippers an app-based business-to-consumer service?Those were two of the questions posed at the ‘What’s next in logistics innovation?’ panel session at the Frankfurt Air Cargo Innovation Lab conference, hosted ...
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RwandAir appoints Network Airline Services in the UK
RwandAir has appointed Network Airline Services as its cargo general sales covering the UK market.The airline offersan Airbus A330 direct to Kigali (KGL) from London Gatwick (LGW) three times a week. From KGL, Rwandair provides connections to 22 destinations throughout Africa.RwandAir marked 2016 with some significant achievements: The airline began ...
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Ethiopian signs up for two more B777Fs at Paris
Ethiopian Airlines has announced a deal to purchase two Boeing 777 freighter aircraft as it continues to expand rapidly its cargo operations.The deal is valued at $651.4m at list prices and follows on from an order for ten B737 Max 8 passenger aircraft announced yesterday.The freighter order is just ahead ...
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SAS Cargo set for CEIV Pharma at three hubs
Scandinavian carrier SAS Cargo has commenced the CEIV Pharma certification process of its cool chain and expects the first hub – Oslo – to be certified this summer, with the Copenhagen and Stockholm facilities to follow soon after.SAS Cargo, with its head office near Medicon Valley, one of Europe’s strongest ...
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Qatar Airways set to move on a 10% stake in American Airlines
Qatar Airways could be set to invest more than $800m in a 10% stake in American, an airline that has accused the Middle Eastern carrier of benefitting from state handouts.In a stock exchange filing, the US carrier said it had received an “unsolicited notice” from Qatar Airways of its intention ...
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Delta continues to expand partnerships with Korean tie-up
Delta Air Lines has announced another partnership - signing a new deal with Korean Air covering the transpacific trade - as it looks to continue to expand its network.The two airlines said the joint venture agreement, which includes belly cargo, will create a combined network serving more than 290 destinations ...
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NewsEuropean cargo monthly: Demand growth picks up in May
Major European airlines saw cargo growth pick up again in May following on from a slight slowdown in April.The latest freight figures from Air France KLM, Finnair, IAG and Lufthansa also show an improvement in year-on-year percent growth compared with the level achieved in April.At Lufthansa Cargo there was a ...
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Asian airlines see cargo demand rise but focus remains on profitability
Airlines based in the Asia Pacific region enjoyed "robust growth" in air cargo volumes in May, according to the latest statistics from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).Figures from the association show air cargo demand in freight tonne km terms increased by 12.2% year on year in May, reflecting ...
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David Geer appointed managing director of Virgin Atlantic Cargo
David Geer has been appointed the new managing director of Virgin Atlantic Cargo.Geer succeeds John Lloyd who officially steps down in August after announcing in May this year his decision to leave the airline after 30 years. Lloyd has headed Virgin Atlantic’s cargo division since 2000.Geer joined Virgin Atlantic in ...
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Boeing forecasts 920 new freighters by 2036
Boeing has raised its forecast for new airplane demand, projecting the need for 41,030 new aircraft over the next 20 years, of which 920 will be freighters.The US airframer's annual Current Market Outlook (CMO) for 2017-2036 was released today at the Paris Air Show, with total airplane demand rising 3.6% ...
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CEA Holding sells part stake in Eastern Air Logistics
China Eastern Air Holding (CEA Holding) has pushed forward with mixed-ownership reforms to its airfreight business by selling a part stake in Eastern Air Logistics.CEA Holding said today that it had sold a 50% majority shareholding in its Eastern Air Logistics arm, which in turn owns 83% of freighter operator ...
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Virgin Atlantic's Steve Buckerfield - Like father, like son
A young Steve Buckerfield sampled his first taste of the air cargo business when his father Chris took him to the Seaboard World Airlines offices at Heathrow on a Saturday morning.Those first glances of a glistening Boeing 747 freighter on the tarmac and playing with the telex paper tape in ...
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Drew Crawley: Sofa so good for IAG
When you change jobs it can sometimes take a while to settle into life at a new company.One thing helping IAG Cargo’s recently appointed chief executive Drew Crawley feel a bit more at home in his new office is a giant blue sofa.He explains that his wife was arranging to ...
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Flydubai renews with Mercator
Flydubai has renewed its contract with Mercator to provide a cargo platform for the end-to-end management of air cargo operations and cargo revenue accounting.The seven-year contract extension expands on the existing platform as flydubai will also have access to Mercator's Intelligent Cargo Ecosystem.This is an open API portfolio of air ...
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IATA calls for cargo transformation
At the 73rd IATA General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Cancun, Mexico, a resolution has been adopted to “accelerate the modernisation and transformation of the air cargo industry” through a customer-centric approach.Measures covered by the resolution include digitisation of the supply chain for instant information sharing to improve ...
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India-Afghanistan cargo flights take-off
The first air cargo service between India and Afghanistan was launched today by Ariana Afghan Airlines.Indian ambassador to Afghanistan Manpreet Vohra confirmed on his twitter account that the first return flight was set to leave Kabul for Delhi today.The service will bypass the land crossing between the two countries via ...
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Pilot project speeds cargo transport between Frankfurt and Schiphol
A new pilot project between various users of Schiphol airport has sped up the transport of cargo between Germany and the Dutch airport by as much as two hours.As part of the Smart Cargo Mainport Program a data sharing project has been created for shipments between Air France KLM’s Frankfurt ...