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American expands cargo presence in Mexico with new GSA partner
American Airlines Cargo has selected G Force GSA Mexico as its new General Sales Agent (GSA) in Mexico, following the retirement of American’s current GSA.The deal starts on July 1 and will also provide the airline with local sales expansion into five new locations — Cancun, Guadalajara, Leon, Puerto Vallarta ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: LATAM finally registers a demand improvement
LATAM Cargo has reported a year-on-year improvement in its monthly traffic for the first time in two-and-a-half years, while US carriers continue to see improving monthly figures.The Santiago-headquartered airline saw cargo traffic during May increase by 1.3% year on year to reach 271m revenue tonne km (FTK).Click on the chart ...
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Qatar Airways calls on ICAO to lift "illegal" airspace ban
Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar Al Baker has called on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to lift what it describes as the illegal airspace ban it faces in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.In a statement issued earlier today, the airline said 90% of its ...
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Australia's High Court rules in favour of competition regulator in air cargo cartel case
Price fixing agreements entered into between Air New Zealand (Air NZ), Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) and other international airlines, breached Australia’s competition law, the High Court of Australia has found.The ruling, on airline agreements in place between 2002 and 2006, is the latest legal twist in an action started seven years ...
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E-AWB usage finally breaches 50% mark
Electronic Air Waybill (e-AWB) penetration finally breached the 50% mark in April as more than 730,000 of the digital documents were processed.The latest IATA figures show that April’s e-AWB penetration level on feasible trade lanes edged up by 1.3 percentage points compared with March to reach 50.7%, exceeding the 50% ...
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Delta to add cargo VP role as it appoints new global sales head
Delta Cargo has appointed a new managing director of global cargo sales and also revealed it will introduce a new cargo vice president role.Cargo president Gareth Joyce said that the airline would introduce a new vice president of cargo role after he was given the extra responsibility of senior vice ...
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Delta's new South Korea flight at full cargo capacity
Delta Air Lines' new flight between the US and South Korea is proving popular with its cargo customers as the airline reports that the first run was at "full cargo capacity".The Atlanta-headquartered carrier said the new flight from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Seoul Incheon International Airport, which departed on ...
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Emirates, Etihad flights axed to Doha as diplomatic row breaks out
Etihad Airways and Emirates have suspended flights into Qatar as a diplomatic row has broken out over accusations that the country is destabilising the Middle East region.Along with Etihad and Emirates, FlyDubai and Air Arabia have also cut flights to Doha while Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and ...
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Qatar adds weekly LHR freighter flights
On June 3, the inaugural flight of Qatar Airways’ new weekly Airbus A330 freighter service touched down at Heathrow.The new service, which returns to Doha via Basel, boosts the carrier’s weekly UK cargo capacity to over 1,500 tonnes – it also operates freighters to Stansted as well as transporting airfreight ...
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Ethiopian to host ICAO forum
Ethiopian Airlines will host the second ICAO Global Air Cargo Development Forum at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa conference hall from June 27 to 29, 2017.The theme of the event, ‘Action for the Sustainable Development of Air Cargo in Africa’, is aimed at achieving progress towards the implementation ...
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NewsDelta and Aeromexico launch US-Mexico cargo partnership
Delta Air Lines Cargo and Grupo Aeromexico Cargo are teaming up on the cross-border US-Mexico trade under a flight and trucking partnership.After the two overall airlines announced a US-Mexico partnership deal last month, the carriers will expand the partnership to their cargo divisions to create "a bigger, better cargo operation" ...
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Cathay Pacific axes cargo director role as part of headquarter cull
Cathay Pacific has axed the cargo director role as it embarks on a cull of middle and senior management at its head office.The Hong Kong headquartered airline today announced that a total of 600 “senior, middle management and non-managerial roles” at the group’s headquarters would be cut.Around 190 management and ...
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Management changes at Emirates
Dubai-headquartered Emirates Airline has made three personnel changes to key commercial and cargo management positions in the Middle East, effective June 1, 2017.The carrier has appointed Abbas A Haji as vice president hub operations for SkyCargo in the UAE. His role encompasses the management of Emirates SkyCargo’s hub operations at ...
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Southwest appoints new director of cargo sales
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has appointed Steve Langhart to the post of director of cargo sales.The role covers leading the carrier’s cargo sales team, including field, national and inside sales, as well as responsibility for all business development efforts.Since joining Southwest in 2008, Langhart has held positions including manager of ramp ...
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Robert Agnew to chair Atlas Air Worldwide board
New York-headquartered freighter operator Atlas Air Worldwide has appointed Robert Agnew (president and chief executive of international aviation consultancy Morten Beyer & Agnew) to the position of chairman of its board of directors.He succeeds retired Marine Corps Lt Gen Frederick McCorkle, who served as chairman since 2014 and will continue ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo ups New York services
At the end of May, Virgin Atlantic Cargo launched new daily flights from Manchester in northern England to New York – taking its total services to and from the US east coast destination to seven per day, seven times a week.The carrier also flies from London Heathrow to New York ...
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Ethiopian continues humanitarian collaboration with Boeing
Ethiopian Airlines has flown 6.5 tons of humanitarian relief cargo from Seattle to Ethiopia on behalf of Conscience International (CI), Horn of Africa Neonatal Development Services and Seattle Alliance Outreach (SAO).The carrier picked up the shipment, bound for St Paul’s Hospital and Bahir Dar University College of Medicine & Health ...
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Royal Air Maroc and Etihad sign cargo MoU
On 29 May in Casablanca, Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Etihad Airways signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint development of their cargo activities.A RAM statement described the two airlines’ networks as “complementary” and, as such, offering potential for commercial synergies. Through its partnership with Etihad Airways Cargo, ...
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AirBridgeCargo records 17% volume growth in Q1
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) recorded a volume improvement of 17% during the first quarter of the year as the carrier continued to expand its network and benefited from market growth.The carrier saw volumes for the three month period reach 158,000 tonnes, while its load factor touched 70%.ABC has been busy expanding ...
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Hainan’s third Kung Fu Panda Dreamliner takes to the sky
A third Hainan Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has received a Kung Fu Panda “makeover” as the carrier continues its collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.The aircraft’s inaugural flight – launching a new daily service from Haikou to Beijing – took place on May 29, in celebration of the carrier’s 24th anniversary. Among ...