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Turkish restarts flights to the US as FAA lifts restrictions
Following the decision on Monday 18 July of America’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to withdraw its prohibition on carriers flying into the country either directly or via a third country from Turkey, the latter’s flag-carrier moved quickly to relaunch flights into the US.All scheduled flights to the US operated by ...
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Lufthansa Cargo: much more than just the ‘basic’ offering
Lufthansa Cargo is to begin offering a new product for the shipping of general air cargo from September this year.To be called td.Basic and only available via online booking, the German freight-carrier said that it will offer “high Lufthansa quality at extremely attractive prices”.Those ‘attractive prices’ will be made possible ...
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NewsMarket analysis: North America
After the boom in demand for freighters experienced in 2015 as US west coast seaport workers launched industrial action, 2016 was always going to suffer in comparison, writes Damian Brett.Nonetheless, there has been plenty for the freighter industry based in North America to get excited about, with a new face ...
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Video: Need for speed drives e-commerce growth says IAG Cargo
IAG Cargo has seen “enormous growth” in e-commerce traffic in the past five years, says manager of global products, Daniel Johnson, in the latest of the carrier’s ‘talking head’ videos.The airline is moving goods ordered online for retailers such as Amazon and Asos, not only to the consumer, but often ...
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Terrorism and falling yields dent airline confidence
Airline finance chiefs and heads of cargo said that they do not expect profits to improve over the next 12 months, according to IATA’s latest quarterly survey of airline business confidence.The results, based on a survey carried out in early July, also show that industry profitability fell slightly year-on-year during ...
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Cathay cargo up in June but half year trend is down
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried 151,130 tonnes of cargo and mail in June, an increase of 7.1% compared to the same month last year.Load factor rose by 1.6 percentage points to 64.3% as capacity increased by only 2.1% while cargo and mail revenue tonne kilometres increased by 4.8%. But over ...
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IATA and FIATA hail partnership of equals in new-look agency programme
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) have unveiled long-awaited reforms to the IATA Cargo Agency Program, promising to treat forwarders as equals alongside airlines.Following a review initiated in 2012, the new IATA-FIATA Air Cargo Program (IFACP), signed today by IATA director ...
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BA cabin crew balloted on possible walk-out
British Airways cabin crew are being balloted on possible strike action in a dispute over a new 'performance' scheme, says the Unite trade union.It affects staff operating the European and long haul fleets and will open on Thursday 21 July and will close on Wednesday 17 August.A consultative ballot has ...
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Qatar freighter to give Halifax seafood exports a lift
Qatar Airways Cargo will launch a weekly Wednesday B777-200 freighter service from Halifax (Canada) to its Doha hub via Zaragoza, Spain, from July 20. Much of the aircraft’s 103-tonne capacity is expected to be filled by Nova Scotia seafood.The flight is scheduled to arrive in Halifax on Wednesdays at 3:20am ...
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Qatar to take stake in Italy’s Meridiana
Qatar Airways has signed an agreement with Alisarda to buy 49% of its subsidiary Meridiana, Italy’s second largest airline. The deal is subject to conditions and is expected to close in early October.Meridiana operates an extensive domestic and European network, which connects the main Italian airports with Sardinia and provides ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo names Steve Buckerfield as vice president sales
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Steve Buckerfield as vice president sales, to be based at Virgin’s headquarters near London Gatwick Airport.He will lead the airline’s global sales team and be responsible for sales across its international network.Prior to joining Virgin Atlantic, Buckerfield spent three years as managing director, UK & ...
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Cathay to fly a B747-8F to Portland from November
Cathay Pacific Cargo is to operate a twice-weekly scheduled Boeing 747-8 freighter service between its Hong Kong home hub and Portland, Oregon, in the US from November 3, subject to government approval.Portland — the carrier’s 18th cargo station in the Americas — will be served by a Hong Kong-Anchorage-Los Angeles-Portland-Anchorage ...
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Chongqing is sixth Chinese city for AirBridgeCargo
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added flights to leading commercial centre Chongqing to its network from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, its sixth Chinese destination.The new twice-weekly service operates on Wednesday and Friday, and will be linked with ABC's Shanghai flights returning to Moscow, complementing its frequencies and accommodating cargo flows from central ...
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Temporary suspension of Astral's South Sudan freighters
Kenyan-based carrier Astral Aviation temporarily suspended its three times a week cargo flights from Nairobi to Juba, following the outbreak of fighting in South Sudan.It has however been operating a chartered Fokker 100 on an evacuation mission, landing in Nairobi on July 12 with 96 passengers on board, after Juba ...
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Qatar Airways to take LATAM stake
Qatar Airways signed a deal at the Farnborough Air Show today to acquire up to 10% of shares in LATAM.Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker, described the move as “an exciting opportunity to invest and support the development of our long-term relationship. As a leading airline in Latin ...
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United becomes a DHL cool carrier
United Cargo has won one of the first DHL carrier awards for reliability and excellence. Aiming to set a new industry standard for air transport of temperature-sensitive life science products, the accolade was presented at DHL’s recent Global Life Sciences and Healthcare Conference in Miami.Award winners were ranked on performance, ...
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Faster than a speeding Boeing
CargoLogicAir is to help the Bloodhound Project in its quest to break the land speed record and to break the 1,000mph barrier. The new British freighter operator has signed a memorandum of understanding as the exclusive air cargo partner for the attempt to set a new world land speed record ...
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Luxembourg pilots join call for Mid East carrier curbs
The Luxembourg pilots’ association has joined a group calling for fair competition in European aviation, which they argue is "competing with the state-funded airlines of the Gulf region".The Association Luxembourgeoise des Pilotes de Ligne (ALPL) said that it, together with other pilot associations and the European Cockpit Association, had become ...
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NewsBoeing pegs up plane market prediction
Boeing has notched up its predictions for aircraft demand in the next 20 years in its current market outlook, published as the UK’s Farnborough Airshow got underway.The planemaker raised its forecast demand for new aircraft over the next 20 years, by 4.1% to 39,620 and put the total value of ...
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Virgin signals end of the Jumbo with A350-1000 order
Virgin Atlantic announced a firm order for 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, worth $4.4bn, at the UK’s Farnborough Airshow. The aircraft, the largest in the A350 family and with a cargo capacity of up to 14 pallets, will replace the carrier’s remaining Boeing 747-400s and Airbus A340-600s when deliveries start in ...