All Airlines articles – Page 245
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Hactl welcomes back Mynmar
Myanmar National Airlines has appointed Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) –to handle its newly-launched services from Yangon.The airline, which as Union of Burma Airways, can trace its origins back to 1948 and operated flights to Hong Kong in the 1950s, is emerging after 22 years of isolation and ...
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Yangtze River gets into passengers
Hitherto all-cargo Chinese carrier Yangtze River Express Airlines yesterday has gained Civil Aviation Administration permission to operate domestic passenger flights from Shanghai. Yangtze River Express, owned by Hainan Airlines, will operate passenger flights from Pudong International Airport to Sanya, Guiyang and Zhuhai with Boeing 737-800 aircraft. It already has 26 ...
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The show goes on, thanks to Qatar Cargo
In the absence of a magic carpet, Premium Events moved its production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from Bucharest to Doha’s on one of Qatar Airways cargo aircraft. The 70-tonne shipment, arranged by Qatar Airways Cargo’s dedicated charter team, took up an entire B747 freighter and included the full ...
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GDP doubts over airline certification
Airlines cannot be certificated for Good Distribution Practice (GDP) along the entire supply chain for pharmaceutical transport but can still be compliant to GDP standards.Annette Kreuziger of Lufthansa Cargo told a pharma conference in London that “it is not just possible” for airlines to assess all the varied third party ...
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Cathay’s freight fails to catch up with passenger growth
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair passenger and cargo traffic showed divergent trends in November with a sizeable increase in the former but a fall cargo and mail uplifted compared with the same month in 2014.The two airlines carried 160,120 tonnes of cargo and mail in November, a 3.0% decrease compared to ...
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Ethiopian switch hurts Brussels’ cargo
The switch by Ethiopian Airlines to Dutch hub to Dutch hub Maastricht-Aachen hit Brussels Airport’s cargo traffic in November, said the Belgian airport.Cargo for the month fell by 5.7% and the full freighter segment by 15.5% after Ethiopian failed to get Belgian traffic rights for its onward flights to Dubai, ...
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e-AWB target of 56% by end of 2016 says IATA
IATA Cargo has set a 56% target for electronic air waybill (e-AWB) usage by the end of 2016, despite missing the 45% target for 2015.In October this year, the figure for e-AWB penetration was just 35.1% but Guillaume Drucy, IATA’s head of cargo e-business management, remained hopeful that ratio would ...
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Paris attacks and strike action take their toll on European air cargo carriers in November
The November monthly statistics from European air cargo carriers paint a bleak picture for the end of the year as demand declines, the Paris attacks and strike action affected European airlines cargo operations.IAG, Air France KLM, Lufthansa and Finnair all recorded year-on-year demand declines in November, with the German group ...
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Cathay Pacific runs airfreight test flight to Wellcamp Airport
Cathay Pacific has run an air cargo test flight to the Australian town of Toowoomba to gauge commercial interest in the region and to test operations.The Hong Kong-headquartered carrier deployed a Boeing 747-8 Freighter to Wellcamp Airport, which is located in one of Queensland’s richest agricultural areas.The airline said the ...
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Lufthansa Cargo releases new tracking app for airfreight
Lufthansa Cargo has released a new app that offers customers the ability to track consignments but also offer feedback to the airline.The new Lufthansa Cargo eServices app updates users with information on their shipments on request via push notifications.It also allows customers to provide feedback on shipments, including the ability ...
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Lufthansa Cargo and United Cargo set for transatlantic co-operation deal
Lufthansa and United Airlines are to extend their current cooperation on passenger services to include cargo on routes between the US and Europe.The aim is to create “a seamless network” including alignment of IT and warehouse facilities. It will create a more efficient and comprehensive transatlantic cargo network and increase ...
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Freight falls back in October, says IATA
Freight-tonne-kilometres volumes fell back in October after showing signs of modest growth in the third quarter, said IATA in its latest Financial Monitor. Volumes fell in October compared with September, from around 17.5 billion FTKs to just over 17bn FTKs. And while passenger load factors reached a new record high ...
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Royal Jordanian’s Turkish delight
Royal Jordanian celebrated the return of regular flights to the Turkish capital with a ceremony in Ankara on 9 December. The Airbus 321 was greeted on arrival from Amman by Jordanian Ambassador to Turkey Amjad Adayleh at a at Ankara’s Esenboğa International Airport.Flights had been suspended for ten years for ...
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The world’s our lobster, says Emirates
Emirates SkyCargo has now shipped 35,000 tonnes of Cool Chain products through its freighter hub at Al Maktoum International-Dubai World Central (DWC) which opened earlier this year.The SkyCentral facility has 15,000 square metres of dedicated storage for temperature-sensitive goods and complements services such as Emirates SkyCargo White Cover, a protective ...
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No paper please, says Air Canada
Air Canada Cargo says that electronic air waybills (e-AWBs) will become the preferred method of shipping cargo at seven of its international stations from next year.They are Amsterdam (effective 1 January), Paris CDG, Frankfurt (FRA) (both 1 February) and London Heathrow, Zurich, Milan and Dubai (all 1 March).The carrier is ...
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Cathay Pacific reaches C$6m settlement over alleged air cargo cartel in Canada
Cathay Pacific has reached a C$6m settlement agreement with respect to the civil cargo antitrust class action against it and other airlines in Canada.The settlement is in connection with the alleged air cargo cartel which has cost airlines billions of dollars in settlement agreements in various jurisdictions across the world.In ...
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Emirates to increase passenger cargo capacity in 2016
Emirates' passenger fleet retirement plan and delivery schedule for 2016 will result in an increase in its potential cargo carrying capacity.The Dubai-headquartered carrier will retire 26 aircraft next year; 12 A330-300s, four A340-300s, one A340-500, six Boeing 777-200ERs, two Boeing 777-300s and one Boeing 777-300ER.In addition, 13 more aircraft will ...
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To boldly go: ex-Virgin B747-400 enters the space race
Virgin Galactic will use a B747-400 to air launch small satellite payloads.The commercial passenger jet, previously operated by Virgin Atlantic under the nickname Cosmic Girl, will provide a dedicated launch platform for the LauncherOne orbital vehicle.“Air launch enables us to provide rapid, responsive service to our satellite customers on a ...
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Donations pour in as Volga-Dnepr pays last respects to air crew
On November 30, a civil funeral service was held in Ulyanovsk to remember the six Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ employees who were among 19 people killed during the terrorist attack at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali in western Africa, on November 20.“The ceremony was attended by thousands ...
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Air cargo growth flat lines in October
A weakening of air cargo growth at European carriers caused overall demand to flat-line in October, according to the latest data from IATA.IATA's latest figures show that air cargo demand in freight tonne km rose just 0.5% in October compared with a year ago.The growth was lower than the one ...