All Airlines articles – Page 224
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Airbus’s new A350-1000 takes to the skies
Airbus’s newest XWB (extra Wide Body) option, the A350-1000, took off early this morning (24 November) on its maiden flight.The maiden test flight out of Toulouse Blagnac and over south-western France marked the launch of the aircraft type’s flight-test programme. Three developmental aircraft will prepare the A350-1000 model for certification.According ...
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Lufthansa pilots' strike set to go into Friday
Lufthansa pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) is extending its current walkout until tomorrow (Friday).The strike, in place since Wednesday of this week, will now extend to cover Friday between 00.01 and 23.59. According to Lufthansa, all its short-haul and medium-haul flights within Germany and Europe will be affected.Lufthansa Cargo is ...
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Lufthansa pilots to extend strike action into second day
The German pilots’ association Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) has extended its strike action to add a second day of problems for Lufthansa.Today (23 November) now marks just the first of two days that will cause significant disruption to the carrier’s flight schedule.In a statement released on 22 November, Lufthansa Cargo confirmed ...
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UPS confirms investment in Columbus facility
UPS has announced that it will invest more than US$175m to expand its main Columbus, Ohio ground package hub on the City’s west side, just one part of what it says is a “multi-year plan to modernize its global network operations and capacity”.When completed in the autumn of 2018, sorting ...
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Cathay Pacific Cargo B747F takes off from Wellcamp
Cathay Pacific Cargo’s inaugural Boeing 747-8 freighter service connecting Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport and Hong Kong left the Australian gateway late yesterday, touching down in Hong Kong in the early hours of this morning.The freighter will fly once a week on a Sydney – Melbourne – Brisbane – Hong Kong ...
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ABC awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo carrier arm of the Volga-Dnepr Group, has become the first airline in Russia and only the seventh in the world to be awarded IATA’s Center of Excellence for Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) certification for the global transportation of pharma products through its ...
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Etihad Cargo flies race horses into Kuwait
Etihad Cargo, the freight division of UAE flag-carrier Etihad Airways, has flown a total of 72 racehorses on a single flight between London and Kuwait.Flying out of the UK at the end of the European racing season, the horses were flown to the warmer climes of the Middle East, where ...
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TransAsia admits defeat
Established in 1951, senior management of Taiwan-based private carrier TransAsia Airways have conceded defeat and closed down the airline.TransAsia, which has carried small amounts of cargo, suffered two crashes in recent years – one in 2014 and one in 2015 – and lack of confidence in the airline’s safety did ...
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Lufthansa Cargo responds to strike threat
A statement from Lufthansa Cargo has said that while the strike action to be undertaken by members of the German pilots’ union, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), tomorrow (23 November) will hit its short-haul, medium-haul and long-haul passenger flights, Lufthansa Cargo freighter flights will operate as scheduled.Austrian Airlines and Eurowings flights will ...
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DHL Express invests in the Americas
DHL Express, the world’s leading express shipping and logistics provider, has confirmed that it intends to maintain the ongoing investment in its footprint and capability in the US and the wider Americas region while growth there continues to “meet expectations”.It said that the $185m investment it has earmarked for the ...
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ABX Air crews stay on the ground
Up to 250 pilots working for US cargo carrier ABX Air are believed to be going on strike today (22 November).A release from political public relations firm BerlinRosen explains that approximately 75 flights are likely to have been cancelled.For nearly two years, ABX Air, which is owned by Air Transport ...
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Lufthansa faces further strike action on 23 November
The Frankfurt-headquartered German airline pilots’ association Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) has called for strike action on 23 November from between 00:01 and 23:59 (local times). A statement from Lufthansa confirmed today (22 November) that the German flag-carrier‘s short and long-haul flights out of the country will be affected.VC has been in ...
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National Airlines on an upward curve
Orlando, Florida-headquartered National Airlines has enjoyed “a meaningful improvement in business trends in the fourth quarter and remains optimistic for the outlook for global trade”.Since the beginning of October, the global charter and scheduled service passenger and cargo airline has seen overall business trends improve by 5%-10% year on year, ...
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Antonov to transfer An-124 sales to UK team after Ruslan JV ceases
Antonov Airlines' team in the UK will takeover the sales and marketing of its An-124 aircraft after its joint venture with Volga-Dnepr that was set up to tout the aircraft comes to an end on December 31.In the wake of confirmation from both Ukraine’s Antonov Company and Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group ...
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Qatar Airways switches to B777 on Cape Town run
Qatar Airways has begun operating freight-friendly Boeing 777 aircraft on the Doha - Cape Town service, switching from previously used B787 ‘Dreamliner’ equipment.The Doha-based carrier has been flying to Cape Town from its Doha hub since 2005. Initially served as part of a four times a week route that also ...
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Lufthansa readies itself for first A350-900 deliveries
German flag-carrier Lufthansa is to receive its first Airbus 350-900 on 19 December, an aircraft that it describes as the world’s most modern long-haul aircraft.It will be based at Lufthansa’s Munich hub and it is to operate its first scheduled commercial flight from the Bavarian gateway to Delhi on 10 ...
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Royal Jordanian takes delivery of sixth B787
Royal Jordanian (RJ) has taken delivery of its latest – its sixth – Boeing 787 Dreamliner.The aircraft flew into Amman, RJ’s home hub, direct from the Boeing manufacturing facility in Seattle on the west coast of the US.This aircraft and a seventh B787, expected to join the RJ fleet at ...
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NewsEuropean cargo monthly: Demand on the up as peak season gets underway
It was another strong month for cargo volume growth for some of Europe’s major airline groups in October as the winter peak season gets underway.Statistics from Lufthansa, IAG and Finnair all showed continued improved performance during the month, while Air France KLM continued to see a decrease as it adjusts ...
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IATA to launch e-AWB tool for forwarders
IATA will launch a new low cost online tool that is designed to allow small and medium sized freight forwarders to send and receive electronic shipment data, such as electronic air waybills (e-AWB).The platform allows users to create, send and manage air waybills, house bill and electronic consignment security declarations.It ...
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IATA launches tool to help defeat endangered wildlife smugglers (Video)
IATA has launched an airport wildlife trafficking assessment tool to help defeat smugglers of endangered species.The assessment tool, developed in partnership with the World Customs Organization (WCO) and with support from the USAID ROUTES Partnership, is now (November 2016) being piloted with WCO at Maputo International Airport in Mozambique.A global ...