All Airlines articles – Page 227
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NewsAsian Cargo Monthly: Southern sees demand slide while rivals grow
Air cargo demand at the leading Asia-based carriers continued to improve in August, although China Southern suffered a dip in form.Of the seven carriers included in the Air Cargo News monthly round-up, six managed to recorded an improvement in air cargo traffic during August as demand continued to pick up ...
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Air Canada Cargo looks forward to raft of new destinations
Air Canada has announced that it is to add six new destinations to its network next year.The Air Canada summer 2017 schedule will include the following new long-haul connections: Toronto – Mumbai; Vancouver – Taipei (subject to government approvals); Toronto – Berlin; and Vancouver – Nagoya, as well as seasonal ...
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Good news for Garuda
Indonesian flag-carrier Garuda enjoyed an impressive 22.5% year on year increase in its cargo volumes in August, reaching a figure of 34,350 tons.The cargo load factor increased by 7.85 percentage points compared to August 2015 to reach 51.8%.Over the course of the January – August period, Garuda carried a total ...
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Qatar Airways flies into Windhoek
Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, has become the latest city on the expanding network of Doha-based Qatar Airways.The carrier is going to fly the route to its first Namibian connection from its hub at Doha with a Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’ four times a week.Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar Al ...
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Lufthansa to acquire balance of Brussels Airlines
German flag-carrier Lufthansa has confirmed that it intends to exercise its call option to acquire the remaining 55% of shares in SN Airholding, parent company of Lufthansa Group member Brussels Airlines, that it doesn’t currently hold.SN Airholding is a Belgian holding consisting of over 30 shareholders concentrated on the air ...
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Oman Air looks to the future
Oman Air’s chief executive, Paul Gregorowitsch, this week laid out his plans for the airline’s growth in coming years, as well as reporting on “important progress (achieved) over the last two years”.He pointed to the fact that the Muscat-based carrier is “delivering an ambitious and dynamic programme of fleet and ...
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Jetstar Asia appoints ECS as its GSA
Singapore-headquartered low-cost carrier (LCC) Jetstar Asia has appointed ECS Group Asia Pacific as its general sales agent (GSA) for the airline’s freight business through Singapore Changi Airport and the 25 stations across its network in Asia.Effective as of 22 October, ECS will look to boost Jetstar Asia’s freight sales to ...
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Brussels Airlines to fly to Yerevan
Brussels Airlines has confirmed that on March 31 next year it will begin flying to the Armenian capital of Yerevan.The airline will operate A319/320 aircraft on the route from the Belgian capital once a week, except in the months of July and August when the lane will be flown twice ...
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Saudia on an upward trajectory
Sulaiman Alhamdan, the chairman of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), has confirmed that over the course of the last two years, the airline ordered a total of 113 aircraft, some of which are already in delivery.Fifty Airbus aircraft (A320s and A330) were order last year, some of which have since been ...
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Air Canada to fly to Shanghai from Montreal
Air Canada has confirmed that it is to launch daily year-round flights from Montreal to Shanghai on February 16 next year.The connection will represent the carrier’s first direct link to China from Montreal, as well as the first use of Air Canada Boeing 787-8 ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft on services out of ...
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Emirates flies A380 Amman connection
On 25 September, Emirates flew one of its A380 super-jumbos for the first time on its Dubai – Amman connection.Just a one-off flight for now, the world’s biggest passenger aircraft flew into Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) in the Jordanian capital.However, Adel Al Redha, Emirates’ executive vice president and chief ...
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IAG and Finnair switch to bellyhold on London-Helsinki partnership
IAG Cargo and Finnair Cargo will no longer take space on DHL freighters between London and Helsinki, instead opting for bellyspace on passenger aircraft.From October 3, the two partner airlines will use bellyspace on their Airbus 350 aircraft instead of continuing their use of DHL A300-600 freighters. The last freighter ...
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IATA seeks US anti-trust immunity to maintain Venezuelan airlinks
IATA has filed a request for antitrust immunity with the US Department of Transportation which would allow airlines to discuss options to maintain connectivity to Venezuela whose government refuses to release $3.8bn in airline funds.Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s director general and chief executive, said: “The economic situation in Venezuela is ...
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VIDEO: IAG Cargo to build new £55m premium product centre and launch time-critical product
IAG Cargo has unveiled plans to build a new £55m facility for premium freight and pharma at its London Heathrow site in response to growth in its services for high-value cargo and will also launch a new time-critical product (see video at end of article).The new terminal, to be called ...
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American Airlines Cargo targets pharma certification
American Airlines Cargo is hoping to become the latest airline – and the first US carrier − to achieve IATA’s pharmaceutical transportation certification in response to growing demand in the sector and stricter regulations.Initial stations that will aim to complete the Center for Excellence and Independent Validators (CEIV) certification include ...
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Call for closer cooperation along the air cargo cool chain
A rapidly growing market for global pharmaceuticals, already worth an estimated $1.1trn per annum, will require closer cooperation along the partners in the air cargo cool chain.That was one take-away from the Cool Chain Association (CCA) pharma and biosciences conference in Dubai, along with a heads-up that pharma shippers are ...
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AirBridgeCargo continues US expansion
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) has continued the expansion of its US services with the introduction of a new call at fast-growing Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) airport.The flight, which also calls at Moscow, Amsterdam, and Chicago, makes Seattle the airline’s sixth online gateway in North America.ABC said that Seattle is not only one of the ...
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FAA issues Samsung smartphone cargo warning
The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has issued further guidance on the transport of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smart phone, saying they should not be carried as cargo following a product recall.In a safety alert to aircraft operators, the FAA said that US hazardous material regulations prohibit air cargo ...
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GSF says aviation needs global climate change deal
The aviation sector must agree a global deal to tackle climate change says the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) in its new Aviation Emissions Policy Statement.The sector – a key enabler of economic growth and social development – currently represents 2% of global carbon emissions. However, its projected growth means emissions ...
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NewsEuropean cargo monthly: Improvements at IAG, Lufthansa and Finnair
The cargo divisions of Lufthansa, IAG and Finnair saw airfreight demand continue to increase in August compared with last year, while Air France -KLM recorded another decline.The monthly cargo figures from Lufthansa show that the German airline group – the largest airfreight carrier in Europe – saw demand increase 0.7% ...