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Qatar Airways Cargo announces expanded South America freighter services
Qatar Airways Cargo has announced that it is expanding its services in South America.From January 16, freighter services, utlilising B777F aircraft, will operate to Campinas, Brazil, Santiago, Chile, Lima, Peru and Bogotá, Colombia.General cargo, pharmaceuticals and perishables will form the majority of goods flown to and from South America. Other ...
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Lufthansa hit with $6.4m fine from US FAA
Lufthansa has been issued a $6,428,000 penalty fine by the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for "allegedly conducting almost 900 flights that were not in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations".In a statement, the FAA explained: "The FAA alleges Lufthansa operated the flights into and out of San ...
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Cathay Pacific: positive peak season for AP region
Cathay Pacific Cargo has reported a positive peak season, based on its performance and its role in transporting freight related to consumer-led holidays such as Singles' Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.In a reflective, positive statement, the company's head of cargo global partnerships, James Conlin (pictured), said: "While still below what it ...
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DHL adds New York to its list of active foreign trade zones
DHL Global Forwarding, the freight division of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has added a new foreign trade zone (FTZ) location in the US – at JFK Airport in New York.FTZs are secure areas, in which shipping goods are handled, that are supervised according to US Customers and Border Protection regulations. ...
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NewsAsia Pacific airlines see cargo demand fall 5.9% in October
Asia Pacific airlines saw continued weakness in the air cargo markets during October, with International air cargo demand in freight tonne kilometre terms (FTK) down by 5.9% year-on-year and a decline of 5.6% for the first ten months of 2019.The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), in its preliminary traffic ...
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Major upgrade for Etihad Cargo's Abu Dhabi hub
Abu Dhabi Airports and Etihad Cargo have announced plans for a major airfreight facility boost for the Middle East airline’s hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport.The partners will implement a “multi-phased cargo infrastructure development” strategy, starting with the imminent upgrade of Etihad’s existing air cargo terminal facilities on the Southside ...
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SAS Cargo and Freightos in digital link-up for e-booking
SAS Cargo and WebCargo by Freightos will partner for fully digital e-booking, dynamic rates and specific capacity on the Scandinavian airline.WebCargo by Freightos will become the first user of SAS Cargo’s digital application programming interface (API) solutions to more than 1,500 freight forwarders and 26,000 unique users around the world.Leif ...
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Sichuan Airlines to launch Brussels-Xi'an A330 freighter
Chinese carrier Sichuan Airlines, which tomorrow launches an A330 freighter service between Brussels and Xi’an, has appointed ATC Aviation Services as its GSSA in Europe.Chengdu-headquartered Sichuan Airlines will start the twice a week direct freighter service into Brussels on November 26.Edward Zhou, department manager of freighter sales department of Sichuan ...
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SF Express launches bond sale to raise cash for freighters
SF Express has launched a bond issue that aims to raise Yuan5.8bn, with much of that money earmarked for investment in new aircraft.The Chinese express giant said that it would spend Yuan1.52bn of the money raised on aircraft for its fast-expanding SF Airlines division.Meanwhile, Yuan1.49bn will be spent on developing ...
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NewsSaudia Cargo transports 67 race cars to Formula-E Championship
For the second year in a row, Saudia Cargo successfully transported 67 electric race cars for the World Championship Formula-E event, which took place on November 22-23 at the Historical Diriyah in Saudi Arabia.The airline carried the vehicles, which collectively weigh 375 tonnes, in four shipments from their starting locations ...
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NewsSubhas Menon to lead AAPA from March 2020
Andrew Herdman. director general, AAPASubhas Menon will be the new director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) from March 2020, when Andrew Herdman steps down after 15 years in the role.Menon has over 35 years of experience in international aviation with the Singapore Airlines Group, having served ...
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Boeing eyes improvements for 767 freighter
Boeing has confirmed it is examining how it can improve the efficiency of the 767 freighter during the next decade.Air Cargo News sister title FlightGlobal revealed in October that Boeing has been studying a possible re-engined version of the twinjet for freighter and passenger markets, powered by GE Aviation GEnx ...
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NewsSpiceJet and Gulf Air to investigate possible collaboration on cargo services
Indian airline SpiceJet and Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore greater co-operation between the two airlines.They are going to examine areas of potential synergy, including looking at co-ordinating cargo services, interline or codeshare agreements, shared engineering services and pilot training.The ...
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NewsSouth African Airways: Industrial action to end soon
South African Airways (SAA) confirmed today (November 22) that it had reached an agreement with the unions in which it has been conflict to end the industrial action which the latter had initiated a week ago.SAA, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the South African Airways ...
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NewsJuneyao Air to launch Manchester–Shanghai service
Shanghai-based carrier Juneyao Air is to launch flights to Manchester on 31 March next year.The service will be operated as a Shanghai Pudong-Helsinki-Manchester route, flown three times a week.Juneyao Air will operate the route with Boeing 787-9 ‘Dreamliner’, and the service will represent an extension of the existing Shanghai-Helsinki route ...
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NewsVirgin Atlantic reports record loads on A350-1000s
Virgin Atlantic has launched its all-new A350-1000s on the trans-Atlantic route, increasing average cargo capacity on each flight to 27 tonnes.The airline said that its new Airbus A350-1000s operating on a Heathrow to JFK connection are carrying record loads.Although the amount of cargo that can be carried on each flight ...
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NewsAAWW claims further victory in labour dispute
Bill FlynnAtlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWW), a global provider of outsourced aircraft and aviation operating services, has claimed that its subsidiaries Atlas Air, Inc. and Southern Air, Inc. have “prevailed” in another legal dispute with the union that represents its pilots, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT).A statement from AAWW ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines Cargo flies brown bears to DFW
Fausto, the father of many of the bears on the flight to DFWYesterday (November 21), American Airlines Cargo flew 10 brown bears from Ezeiza International Airport near Buenos Aires in Argentina to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, Texas, on board one of its Boeing 787s.The bears, who had been living ...
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NewsFedEx plans busy start to peak season
FedEx has said that it expects to kick off this year’s peak holiday shipping season by handling record package volumes on Cyber Monday (December 2).It expects to move more than 33 million packages through its global network on that day alone.The global integrator also expects to more than double its ...
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NewsJoint effort delivers Beaujolais Nouveau to Japan
From left to right, the three partners involved: Kim Van Assche, VP sales Europe at DHL Aviation; Taneda san of Nippon Express; and Jean Ceccaldi, managing director of Aero Cargo FranceDHL Aviation, Nippon Express and general sales and services agent (GSSA) Aero Cargo France (a subsidiary of ECS Group) have ...