All Airlines articles – Page 212
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Volga-Dnepr keeps Baffinland iron ore production on track
Russia-based all-cargo carrier Voga-Dnepr Airlines carried out 20 Ilyushin IL-76TD-90VD freighter flights over four weeks beginning at the start of April, moving heavy-duty trucks and trailers from North Bay to Mary River in North Baffin, Nunavut, Canada on behalf of Baffinland Iron Mines.Baffinland had ordered extra trucks and trailers in ...
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Asian Cargo Monthly: Demand flies in April
Asian airlines continued their run of success on the cargo demand front in April, with the region’s major carriers all registering traffic growth on a like-for-like basis.The region’s largest cargo carrier, Cathay Pacific, saw cargo traffic increase by 6.2% in April to 907m cargo and mail tonne km. The increase ...
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IAG to dispatch cargo as priority after IT failure
IAG Cargo has "made good progress" in flying customer bookings affected by an IT outage over the weekend.The cargo division said that it had experienced "significant operational disruption" on May 27 after the airline group faced IT issues causing the cancellation of thousands of flights and affecting around 75,000 passengers.IAG ...
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Virgin links Melbourne and Hong Kong
Virgin Atlantic Cargo is to offer 14 tonnes of cargo capacity on new five-times-a-week Airbus A330 services between Melbourne and Hong Kong that its partner, Virgin Australia, will launch on 5 July.“Hong Kong is an important and growing market for companies in Australia, with over 21.5m kilos of air cargo ...
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Qatar Airways expands pharma network
Doha-based Qatar Airways has added Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Dublin (Republic of Ireland) to its pharma network, bringing the total number of destinations covered to 73. Operations to Colombo began on 15 May, while Dublin is due to become active on 12 June with the launch of the carrier’s Boeing ...
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ABC moves eROSITA telescope
Russian all-cargo carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has transported the eROSITA X-ray telescope from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics near Munich to the premises of the Russian aerospace company, Lavochkin Association, in Moscow.The movement of the highly sensitive cargo was carried out in partnership with integrator DHL. Ensuring the ...
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Cost cutting continues at Asian airlines despite traffic growth
Airlines based in the Asia Pacific region enjoyed cargo traffic growth of 9% in April as export orders from the region continued to surge, but carriers continue to cut costs to meet rising costs.The latest figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) (see table at end of article) ...
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Tracking tracksuits: Rugby kit to be monitored for flight to New Zealand
British & Irish Lions rugby kit and equipment being flown out to New Zealand will be monitored by tracking technology originally developed to protect fine art and pharmaceutical products.Five sensors, provided by insurer QBE, will be sent out with the rugby kit that can record location, pressure changes, light exposure, ...
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Airfreight rates continue to rise in April
Airfreight rates improved again in April led by improvements on services from Asia to North America.The latest Sea and Air Shipper Insight report from Drewry, which uses a weighted average of buy rates across 21 trade lanes, showed that average east-west airfreight prices increased by 7.9% year on year in ...
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European Cargo Monthly: Another busy month for European carriers
April proved to be another good month for some of Europe’s major airlines as increases in cargo traffic were recorded at Lufthansa, Air France KLM and IAG.The latest monthly stats from Lufthansa, the largest of the three in cargo terms, show a 6% year-on-year improvement in traffic for April to ...
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American cargo monthly: US carriers see demand fly as rates improve
The three major US carriers continued to record rapid increases in cargo demand in April and sources have indicated that rates are also now starting to pick up.The latest figures from United, American and Delta show that all three carriers registered an improvement in demand during the month.The largest of ...
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SIA Cargo to be "re-integrated" into the parent group
SIA Cargo is to be "re-integrated" into the parent airline, in a “business as usual” move intended “to improve efficiency through greater synergy with the wider SIA Group".The wholly-owned cargo subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (SIA) will become the cargo division within the parent group and the transition is expected to ...
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EgyptAir Cargo to add pharma product
EgyptAir Cargo has revealed it will launch a pharma product this summer after signing a deal for passive containers with va-Q-tec.The airline said that va-Q-tec's passive container rental service will enable deviation-free transportation of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals around the world to over 70 EgyptAir Cargo destinations.The two companies finalised the deal ...
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European Commission updates Air Safety list of restricted carriers
The European Commission has updated the European Union (EU) Air Safety List, the list of non-European airlines that do not meet international safety standards, and are subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within the European Union.Following the update, all airlines certified in Benin and Mozambique are cleared from ...
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Oman Air appoints GAC as it looks to expand in Europe
Oman Air Cargo has selected ECS Group subsidiary Globe Air Cargo (GAC) as its sales partner in the Benelux region of Europe.The contract came into effect on April 1 and will provide the carrier with overnight transit cargo volume to its gateways in Paris (CDG), London (LON) and Frankfurt (FRA).According ...
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Industry-wide data platform an inevitability
The air cargo industry should develop a sector-wide data system if it is to meet shipper to demand for end-to-end supply chain visibility.Speakers at the innovation in air cargo session at Air Cargo Europe agreed that creating supply chain efficiencies through digital solutions would be a key demand from shippers ...
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Cargojet sees revenues improve on Air Canada deal
Freighter airline Cargojet saw revenues increase during the first quarter of the year but income was down.The Canadian airline saw first-quarter revenues improve by 13.3% year on year to C$87.1m, but earnings before taxes for the period declined by 35.6% on a year earlier to C$3.8m and net earnings dropped ...
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IATA's STB Cargo to push on industry transformation
IATA’s recently created Simplifying The Business (STB) Cargo project will aim to push industry transformation in the areas of visibility, processes and booking.Speaking at an Air Cargo Europe conference session, Celine Hourcade, head of cargo transformation at IATA, said STB Cargo had been developed out of the flagship IATA STB ...
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Pharma freight focus at Munich conference
Pharmaceutical logistics will take centre stage in Munich at an exclusive symposium organised by Air Cargo News.Timed to coincide with the Air Cargo Europe (ACE) conference and exhibition, the Air Cargo News 90 minute symposium will start at 12 noon on Wednesday May 10 at Forum IV, Hall B2 (West) ...
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AF KLM Cargo sees decline in Q1 revenues
Air France KLM saw revenues decline in the first quarter of the year despite an improvement in traffic.The Franco-Dutch airline saw first quarter revenues decline by 4.7% year on year to €504m, despite traffic for the period increasing by 0.5% to 2bn revenue tonne km.Cargo capacity at the airline group ...