All Airlines articles – Page 264
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Garnadt leaves Lufthansa Cargo
LUFTHANSA CARGO’S chief executive Karl Ulrich Garnadt is leaving the freight airline to become a member of the German carrier’s executive board and the new head of its passenger business.Peter Gerber, previously responsible for human resources, IT and services and a Lufthansa executive board member since June 2012, will assume ...
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Cathay Pacific: The declining role of freighters in air cargo
If Cathay Pacific had stuck to the plans it had at the end of 2011, it would have had a fleet of 35 freighters by the end of 2016: 10 B747-8Fs, eight B777Fs, six B747-400ERFs, six B747-400Fs and five B747-400BCFs.That was always the most optimistic scenario, and probably Cathay would ...
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Edging towards e-freight
IF you have the idea that targets for the IATA e-freight programme keep slipping, you are not wrong.At the 2010 Air Cargo Forum the expectation was that the whole air cargo industry would be paperless by 2014, but the target IATA now has is for 22 per cent of feasible ...
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New senior vice-president of sales at Etihad
ETIHAD AIRWAYS has appointed James Mueller as senior vice-president of sales.Mueller, who has more than 20 years experience in the aviation industry, previously worked at United Airlines for five years. During this period, he held a number of senior roles, including vice-president, Asia Pacific and vice-president, Atlantic and Pacific sales.He ...
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The cost of modal shift
MODAL SHIFT to ocean and other surface freight has cost the air cargo industry almost two percentage points of annual growth since 2000.The problem is set to continue at a moderate pace, says a report conducted by research firm Seabury Group and IATA.It reveals that airfreight’s share of total global ...
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Van de Weg joins Volga-Dnepr Group
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest cargo carrier, has appointed former key Cargolux executives Robert van de Weg and Peter van de Pas as senior vice-president, marketing and sales, and senior vice-president, scheduled operations, respectively.Van de Weg will be responsible for the management of scheduled cargo sales, as well as the ...
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New CEO at Cargolux
CARGO airline Cargolux has appointed former Kuehne + Nagel management board member Dirk Reich as its new chief executive.He replaces Richard Forson, senior vice-president and member of the executive committee, who has been interim CEO since 3 August 2012.Forson will continue to serve as senior vice-president and chief financial officer, ...
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DB Schenker: How air cargo can be green
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design their supply chains? And what does that mean for air cargo? Will it inevitably always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions, or is there anything it ...
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CAL starts Greater Moncton service
LIÉGE, Belgium-based CAL Cargo Airlines is expanding its reach with a series of B747-200 freighter flights to Greater Moncton, Canada.The initial service, with a full payload of temperature-controlled seafood shipments (lobsters) and industrial goods, is a manifestation of the company's 2014 strategy, focusing on North America, says a spokesperson.Originating at ...
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CHAMP: A man with all the right connections
THE PAST year has been a busy one for CHAMP Cargo-systems and the next one looks to be no less busy. For a business that is continually urging modernisation and change on others, one cannot accuse the IT company of shirking it itself.Successful ticks on the 2013 to-do list of ...
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Virgin Atlantic wins Cargo Airline of the Year 2014
DURING a glamorous night of fine dining and dancing, Virgin Atlantic Cargo was declared Air Cargo News’ Cargo Airline of the Year. Here are the winners:Cargo Airline of the Year: Virgin Atlantic CargoLifetime Achievement Award: Des Vertannes, global head of cargo, IATABest Cargo Airport (+1m): DXBBest Cargo Airport (-1m): Abu ...
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Lufthansa Cargo: Air cargo security starts at home
HARALD ZIELINSKI, global head of security and environment management for Lufthansa Cargo, has just finished collaborating with professors Elmar Giemulla and Bastian Rothe on a new guide to air cargo security.To be published in June – so far only in German – and aimed at the non-specialist audience as well ...
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Cargolux Asia boss goes
CARGOLUX has terminated the contract of its senior vice-president for the Asia Pacific region.The decision comes just weeks after Robert Song was appointed to the role and made a member of the European all-cargo airline’s executive committee.He was instrumental in brokering the deal with Chinese investor Henan Civil Aviation and ...
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Atlas Air chairman retires
EUGENE DAVIS has decided to retire from the board of directors of aircraft lease and ACMI company Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings.A board member for more than a decade, and more recently company chairman, he is to continue as a shareholder.“Gene has served with distinction as our chairman for the last ...
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Saudi Arabia's first e-AWB shipment
SAUDIA Cargo has operated the country’s first e-AWB export shipment, flown on behalf of local agent Express Forwarding Services (EFS).The ground-breaking 0.5-tonne consignment was successfully transported on a Saudia flight from Jeddah to Cairo.A number of major challenges were overcome, including the refinement and enabling of the airline’s systems and ...
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Emirates: Secondary connections, primary goals
It must be hard for the cargo team at Emirates to keep up with all the new destinations that are added to their network each year. Oslo, Stockholm, Boston, Chicago, Taipei, Kabul, Abidjan and Conakry have all had new Emirates services in the last eight months, and the carrier has ...
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Tony Charaf to retire as cargo is downgraded
TONY CHARAF is taking retirement and Delta Air Lines is downgrading its cargo division to align it more closely to the passenger side of Delta’s business, says the company.Cargo sales will now become part of the airline’s global sales team, and cargo operations will be aligned with its Airport Customer ...
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Polar's Thomas Murphy to retire
THOMAS MURPHY is to retire as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Polar Air Cargo Worldwide.Murphy joined Polar, in which Atlas Air Worldwide is the majority shareholder, in July 2009. He will retire in August this year. A replacement for Murphy will be named shortly.Prior to joining Polar, ...
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US Airways and AA Cargo co-locate to Chicago
US AIRWAYS has joined American Airlines Cargo’s operations at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD), as part of the combined carrier’s plan to co-locate operations across their combined network.While the two carriers continue to operate independently, the co-located facility allows American and US Airways customers to tender and recover both 001 ...
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Etihad Cargo and WIN boost e-AWBs from the US
ETIHAD CARGO and the Worldwide Information Network (WIN) are working together to increase electronic airwaybill (e-AWB) adoption with independent freight forwarders.The UAE flag-carrier's first US export e-AWB shipment took place on a flight from Chicago to Abu Dhabi, using WIN's online platform.The forwarder involved, Worldwide Logistic Partners (WLP) in Chicago, ...