All Airlines articles – Page 217

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    Ethiopian scoops Brussels cargo award

    2017-03-13T11:24:48Z

    Ethiopian Airlines won the Cargo Airline Award for Network Development at the Brussels Airport Aviation Awards on March 9.It was in recognition of the largest African carrier’s commitment to expand its cargo network and for becoming the largest cargo airline at Brussels Airport.Ethiopian Group CEO Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam remarked: "With ...

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    Volcano alert for North Pacific

    2017-03-13T11:06:42Z

    Airlines have been warned of possible disruption following a major eruption of an Alaskan volcano.The Alaska Volcano Observatory reported that the Bogoslof Volcano had erupted on the night of Tuesday 7 March for three hours, sending an ash cloud up to 35,000 feet.It was Bogoslof’s 36th eruption since mid-December and ...

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    American Cargo Monthly: LATAM sees load factors improve

    2017-03-10T15:39:28Z

    LATAM continued to see cargo load factors improve in February, while US carriers American and United recorded strong growth in demand.The latest carrier figures show that American Airlines Cargo saw cargo demand increased by 9.7% year on year to 191m cargo ton miles (CTM) in February.This improvement follows on from ...

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    VIDEO: Swiss WorldCargo unveils new customer website

    2017-03-10T14:47:36Z

    Swiss WorldCargo has released a new customer website that can be used on a range of devices and provides greater visibility of cargo.The cargo division of Swiss said it had designed the new website after holding months of seminars with customers around the world to understand their needs and to ...

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    KQ Cargo revenues hit by decline in the pound

    2017-03-10T10:59:52Z

    Kenya Airways Cargo (KQ Cargo) has seen revenues on its busiest route decline as a result of the Brexit vote and subsequent decline in the value of the pound.KQ Cargo general manager Peter Musola explained that the airline had been hit twice by a decline in the value of the ...

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    Airfreight's positive momentum continues in January

    2017-03-10T10:41:56Z

    Air cargo demand growth continued its “positive momentum” in January in line with a steady rise in new export orders.The latest monthly statistics from IATA show that air cargo demand in freight tonne km terms increased by 6.9% year on year in January.While this lags behind the 9.8% improvement registered ...

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    Lufthansa honours road feeder partners

    2017-03-10T09:18:23Z

    Lufthansa Cargo has presented 12 of its most important road feeder service (RFS) providers with a premium road partner award.The German carrier said that the award recognises “good, reliable cooperation” including flexibility, while “punctuality was also a key criterion in the selection process”.Some 600,000 tonnes of cargo are transported via ...

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    AF KLM Cargo looks ahead to a more stable year in Africa

    2017-03-09T11:30:58Z

    Air France KLM Cargo expects the African market to stabilise over the coming year after a year of adjustment.Air France KLM Cargo (AF KLM) director eastern and southern Africa Noud Duyzings said that Seabury figures show that air cargo traffic to and from Africa increased by 9% last year.However, the ...

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    American Airlines promotes Rick Elieson to president–cargo

    2017-03-08T09:38:00Z

    American Airlines has appointed Rick Elieson as president–cargo overseeing all aspects of the US carrier's worldwide cargo business.Elieson will report to Jim Butler, who recently succeeded Art Torno as senior vice president–international and cargo, following Torno's retirement."We often look at cargo as an airline within an airline," said Butler, adding: ...

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    Strauss to replace retiring Turpin at Air Canada

    2017-03-07T10:36:45Z

    Tim Strauss is about to swap his Hawaiian shirts for warm winter gear. The genial American will relinquish his role at the helm of Hawaiian Air Cargo at the end of this month and move to Montreal, where he is to take over the reins of Air Canada Cargo from ...

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    Emirates SkyCargo appoints Ross Barnett as UK Cargo Manager

    2017-03-07T10:09:48Z

    Emirates SkyCargo has appointed Ross Barnett as UK cargo manager.With over 30 years’ experience in the industry, he joined Emirates in 1995 and was most recently cargo manager for Northern England and Scotland where he was responsible for over 20 staff based in the region.Now based in London, he will ...

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    ICAO agrees new aircraft CO2 emissions standard

    2017-03-07T09:25:22Z

    The council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has adopted a new aircraft CO2 emissions standard which will reduce the impact of aviation greenhouse gas emissions on the global climate.Contained in a new Volume III to Annex 16 of the Chicago Convention (Environmental Protection), the aircraft CO2 emissions measure ...

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    Cargo iQ: Air cargo should focus on reliability not speed

    2017-03-06T11:41:47Z

    Cargo iQ has called on the air cargo industry to stop focusing on speeding up transport times and to instead concentrate on differentiating products based on the level of reliability on offer.Cargo iQ executive director Ariaen Zimmerman said that the industry has spent too long trying to speed up transport ...

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    IATA memo to Trump: cut aviation taxes and return to the principles of deregulation

    2017-03-03T11:09:00Z

    In a Washington policy speech aimed primarily at the new US administration of President Trump, IATA’s top boss has urged governments to support the vital role aviation plays in connecting people and commerce around the globe.“Our world has grown much wealthier through trade and travel. Air travel liberates people to ...

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    Volumes up in January despite Chinese New Year effects

    2017-03-02T09:13:47Z

    Chinese New Year affected airfreight demand in January, but nonetheless volumes improved during the month compared with a year earlier.The latest figures from analyst WorldACD show that air cargo demand in weight terms improved by 4.9% year on year in January, with the origins Asia Pacific and North America registering ...

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    Mixed results for airfreight rates in February

    2017-03-01T14:48:47Z

    Airfreight rates on services from Hong Kong to Europe and Hong Kong to the US continued to decline in February, while there was an improvement on services between Frankfurt and North America.The latest figures from TAC Index show that average airfreight prices on services from Hong Kong to the US ...

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    Delta dashes for US same day delivery

    2017-03-01T09:19:28Z

    US carrier Delta Cargo has launched DASH Critical & Medical, a fully GPS-enabled same-day product for the US domestic market which will be extended to the international sector later this year.The new service, with distinctive pink packaging, provides real-time tracking and monitoring of any eligible shipment, and customers can ship ...

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    IAG Cargo to embrace technology with new customer portal and WMS

    2017-02-28T14:15:50Z

    IAG Cargo will look to further embrace technology to create efficiencies and improve its product offering in the year ahead in order to offset the current market conditions.Speaking shortly after the carrier revealed its 2016 full-year results, IAG Cargo chief executive Drew Crawley and head of commercial David Shepherd revealed ...

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    DHL's green award for Lufthansa Cargo

    2017-02-28T13:41:24Z

    German airline Lufthansa Cargo has been named a ‘preferred carrier’ by DHL Global Forwarding and presented with a GoGreen carrier certificate.Rather like the Michelin Star system for restaurants, Lufthansa Cargo has been awarded with four “green aircraft” by the German-based logistics giant for its environmentally-friendly performance.Lufthansa Cargo was the only ...

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    Virgin Atlantic Cargo to add new US destinations

    2017-02-28T11:49:49Z

    Virgin Atlantic Cargo will offer space on a new daily service from London to Seattle and extra flights from Manchester to the US.Seattle joins the airline’s network on March 26 — flying from Heathrow — and Virgin has high hopes for the route.Virgin Atlantic senior vice president, cargo, John Lloyd ...