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    LATAM signs codeshare with Delta in shift away from American

    3 December 2019

    South American carrier LATAM Airlines Group has signed new codeshare agreements with pending-equity owner Delta Air Lines and announced plans to discontinue its codeshare deal with American Airlines on 31 January 2020.The news from Santiago-based LATAM comes as that carrier progresses with a plan to align closely with Delta.News broke ...

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    Swiss WorldCargo launches Cancun handling hub

    3 December 2019

    Swiss WorldCargo has opened a handling hub at Cancun, Mexico, which will enable flights between Zurich, Switzerland, and the destination to carry freight on both inbound and outbound journeys.Swiss WorldCargo operates flights three times a week, utilising an Airbus A340-400 aircraft, via Edelweiss – a sister company of Swiss International ...

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    Aeroflot's cargo revenue rises in Q3

    2 December 2019

    Aeroflot saw cargo revenue rise by 6% to RUB 13,613m for the first nine months of the year compared with the same period last year. Cargo and mail volumes grew by 4.6%.Overall for the period to the end of September 2019, Aeroflot Group’s revenue increased by 12.4% year-on-year to RUB ...

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    ANA and Lufthansa promise further cargo integration

    2 December 2019

    Lufthansa Cargo and ANA Cargo have taken the opportunity of the fifth anniversary of their air cargo joint venture to promise the integration of further products in the future.Currently the cooperation covers standard and express shipments, as well as perishables on the carriers’ routes between Europe and Japan.The joint venture ...

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    Qatar Airways Cargo announces expanded South America freighter services

    2 December 2019

    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

    29 November 2019

    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

    28 November 2019

    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

    27 November 2019

    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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    Asia Pacific airlines see cargo demand fall 5.9% in October

    27 November 2019

    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

    26 November 2019

    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

    26 November 2019

    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

    25 November 2019

    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

    25 November 2019

    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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    Saudia Cargo transports 67 race cars to Formula-E Championship

    25 November 2019

    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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    Subhas Menon to lead AAPA from March 2020

    25 November 2019

    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

    25 November 2019

    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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    SpiceJet and Gulf Air to investigate possible collaboration on cargo services

    25 November 2019

    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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    South African Airways: Industrial action to end soon

    22 November 2019

    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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    Juneyao Air to launch Manchester–Shanghai service

    22 November 2019

    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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    Virgin Atlantic reports record loads on A350-1000s

    22 November 2019

    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 ...