All Airlines articles – Page 229
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VIDEO: World's longest aircraft makes maiden flight
The world’s longest aircraft – the Airlander 10 airship – has completed its maiden flight, taking off from Cardington Airfield in the UK last night (see end of article for video).The £25m aircraft had been due to make its maiden flight last Sunday, but take-off was delayed because of a ...
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Tighten up enforcement or face battery ban, says freight industry
Freight industry and manufacturing groups have written to governments worldwide to demand stricter enforcement of international regulations on the transport of lithium batteries.The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the Global Shippers Forum (GSF) and the International Air Cargo Association (TIACA), together with the US Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA), the European ...
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Quick-change operator seeks cargo business
Malta-based operator Maleth Aero is making its Boeing 737-300QC quick change aircraft available to the cargo market.The aircraft has until now been flying ad hoc summer passenger charters around Europe.Chief executive Michael O'Brien, said: "While we have initially operated the QC in a passenger configuration, we are actively seeking work ...
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VIDEO: IAG Cargo supports The Who's fiftieth anniversary tour
VIDEO: IAG Cargo have has been providing transport services for The Who's fiftieth anniversary global tour that includes 65 shows spanning 100,000 thousand miles.Over the course of five months, IAG Cargo was responsible for transporting key equipment for The Who’s 65 shows in North America, out of a planned 100 ...
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Finnair unveils plan to save €20m a year as cargo market remains uncertain
Finnair unveiled a €20m cost efficiency programme on the same day that it announced its half-year results, in which it admitted that the outlook for cargo and passenger traffic in its main markets remains uncertain.The Finnish flag carrier said that while savings programmes in 2011-14 have improved its performance, it ...
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Tech loss drags down Air T
US-based overnight air cargo and aviation support company Air T reported a loss of $3.68 million in the first quarter of the 2016/17 financial year, which ended June 30.However, the figures included those of new acquisition Delphax Technologies, which ran up an operating loss of $6.9m including $5.6m in impairment ...
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Fall in freight pulls down Latam revenues
A 22.3% decline in cargo revenues, along with a 13.7% decline in passenger income, helped push Latam Airlines Group’s total revenue down by 12.5% in the second quarter of 2016, the South American carrier reported in its latest financial results.Total revenues in the second quarter 2016 were $2.1bn, compared with ...
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Delta operations return to normal after Monday's power outage
Delta Air Lines says its flight operations have now returned to normal after customers faced cancellations and delays this week as a result of a power outage in Atlanta on Monday morning.The power outage caused the airline to call a ground stop on Monday morning and while flights were re-started ...
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Brussels Airlines to launch Mumbai link
Brussels Airlines is to inaugurate services to Mumbai in March next year, forming its first link to an Asian destination.The carrier will fly Airbus A330 equipment to the Indian city’s Chhatrapati Shivaji airport five times a week.With a population of 20 million, Mumbai is amongst the 10 biggest cities in ...
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Emirates points to cargo potential for new Southeast Asian link
On 3 August, Emirates launch a daily, linked service that flies from Dubai to Yangon in Myanmar, before going onwards to Hanoi in Vietnam.Operated with Boeing 777-300ER equipment, the new service expands the airline’s network in Southeast Asia to 12 cities across seven countries.Yangon is the first destination within Myanmar ...
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Finnair upgrades Helsinki-Heathrow connection
Finnair is to move to an all-A350 XWB operation on its Helsinki-London Heathrow service.The link is currently flown three times a week by A350 and twice a week by A320, but from 5 October Finnair will use the A350 on all five weekly frequencies.According to the airline, switching to the ...
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Dragonair to take on KL route from Cathay Pacific
Dragonair is to operate services to Kuala Lumpur in March next year, taking over responsibility for the route from sister carrier Cathay Pacific.It will fly four times a day from its Hong Kong hub, the new services being phased in between March and May.Kuala Lumpur will become Dragonair’s third destination ...
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NewsWorld's Top 75 Cargo Airports 2015
Air Cargo News has put together a list of the world's top 75 busiest cargo airports in 2015. See below.
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Swiss to suspend Istanbul connection but seeks to continue serving the Turkish cargo market
Swiss International Air Lines has confirmed that it will cut its double daily Zurich-Istanbul Ataturk service from the beginning of this year’s winter schedule.According to a spokesperson for the carrier: “SWISS has decided to remove Istanbul from its programme with effect from winter 2016/17. All our destinations are subject to ...
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LATAM freight traffic on the slide
LATAM Cargo, the freight wing of Latin American carrier LATAM, flew 274m cargo ton miles in July, down by 9.5% on the same month of 2015.With capacity as measured by available ton kilometres down by 6.4% year on year, the cargo load factor also declined – by 1.6 percentage points ...
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Air France-KLM Cargo struck by difficult July
In July, Air France-KLM Cargo flew 700m revenue cargo tonne kilometres, 6.7% than in the same month of last year.With capacity down by 3.2% year on year to 1.26bn cargo tonne kilometres, the load factor also deteriorated, by 2.1 percentage points to 55.5%.July’s performance is really only more of the ...
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American Airlines enjoys healthy July traffic
American Airlines Cargo flew 190.5m cargo ton miles in July, up by 5.7% on the same month of 2015.Over the first seven months of the year, the carrier flew a total of 1.35bn cargo ton miles, representing a year on year improvement of 1.2%.North America rival United Airlines reported similarly ...
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UPS rolls out Worldwide Express Freight offering to another nine countries
Integrator UPS has extended its Worldwide Express Freight service to a further nine countries across North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Indian sub-continent.New to the network for UPS’s dedicated service for urgent, time-sensitive and high-value international heavy shipments of over 70kg are Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Malta, Morocco, Pakistan, ...
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Finnair Cargo reaches the heights in July
Finnair Cargo flew 12,925 tonnes of cargo in July, up by 15.9% on the same month of last year.The cargo load factor was 59%, a rise of 2.7% on July 2015.Over the course of the first seven months of this year, Finnair Cargo carried 83,925 tonnes of cargo, representing an ...
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Emirates continues to expand A380 coverage
Following hard on the heels of its announcement that it will move to an all-Airbus A380 operation on its Dubai – Manchester route, Dubai-based Emirates Airline has confirmed that it is to operate the super-jumbo on its connection between Dubai and Guangzhou from October 1.This latest announcement also follows the ...