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RUS Aviation resumes Sulaymaniyah freighter connection
Sharjah-headquartered freighter operator RUS Aviation has resumed the scheduled cargo services that link its home base in the UAE to Sulaymaniyah.RUS Aviation restarted flying on the route out to Sharjah to the Iraqi city on March 20.The initial flight represented the first commercial cargo flight to land at Sulaymaniyah Airport ...
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Cathay Pacific looks back at improved cargo results in 2017
Ronald Lam, director commercial and cargo at Cathay Pacific, has cast an eye back at a much-improved year for the airline’s freight business in 2017.Earlier this month (March), Cathay Pacific announced that it had enjoyed “robust” cargo demand throughout 2017, with tonnage growth outpacing an increase in offered capacity.The cargo ...
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CLA airs its views with the UK’s aviation minister
Senior executives from UK-based freighter operator CargoLogicAir (CLA) have met with the country’s aviation minister, Baroness Sugg, in order – it said – “to emphasise the airline’s commitment to supporting the UK’s forward-looking position on aviation”.The minister met with CLA chief executive David Kerr, chief commercial officer Steve Harvey, technical ...
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China Cargo Airlines inaugurates Frankfurt – Shanghai link
China Cargo Airlines has inaugurated a new Boeing 777 freighter connection between Shanghai-Pudong International Airport and Germany’s Frankfurt Airport.Frankfurt Airport welcomed the freighter with a traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony.China Cargo Airlines, a subsidiary of China Eastern, is flying the service twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays.However, according to Fraport, operator ...
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United Airlines suspends PetSafe offering
US carrier United has temporarily stopped accepting bookings for pets travelling in the cargo hold via its PetSafe service, while it conducts a review of its offering for pet travel.It will honour any existing reservations on the product made prior to March 20.The suspension of the PetSafe service does not ...
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AF KLM Cargo confirms summer schedule plans
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has announced its summer schedule.Air France KLM Martinair Cargo will be offering freight capacity on approximately 1,115 weekly services to 116 destinations across the joint network, and this summer will see the addition of a number of new connections on which cargo capacity will be ...
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Pharma and e-commerce boost Virgin Atlantic cargo tonnage
Virgin Atlantic Cargo transported 230,500 tonnes of cargo last year, up 6% in comparison to its 2016 total - a five-year high.On the back of the volume growth, Virgin Atlantic Cargo’s revenue rose 9% year on year to £199.6m.In terms of verticals, perishables, high-value shipments, pharmaceuticals and e-commerce provided the ...
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Lufthansa Cargo: We want to collect e-AWBs, not fees
Lufthansa Cargo’s introduction of a fee for paper-based air waybills (AWB) is a surcharge that the German carrier does not want to collect.“We don't want to make money on this, we don't want to collect this fee. We want to collect e-AWBs,” said Dr Alexis von Hoensbroech, Lufthansa Cargo member ...
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Turkish Cargo flying fish
Turkish Cargo recently netted a vast transport contract – moving 1.5m live fish to Oman from Izmir.The 1.5m baby Gilt-head breams weighed in at around 100 tonnes and were accompanied by aquaculture engineers who checked the pH balance, oxygen and water temperature levels of the fish every hour.The transport was ...
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ANA becomes first Japanese airline to sign up to Buckingham Palace wildlife declaration
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has become the first Japanese airline to sign up to the United for Wildlife (UFW) Buckingham Palace Declaration on the illegal trade in wildlife.By signing up to the declaration the airline will aim to increase passenger, customer, client, and staff awareness about the nature, scale, and ...
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Cathay Pacific Cargo partners with va-Q-tec for thermal containers
Cathay Pacific Cargo has partnered with va-Q-tec to use its advanced passive thermal containers which are designed to maintain a constant temperature during transportation for more than five days.Cathay Pacific's general manager cargo service delivery, Frosti Lau, said: “These advanced passive thermal containers can offer steady temperature-controlled conditions for several ...
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Hong Kong Air Cargo launches trucking service
Freight carrier Hong Kong Air Cargo has launched a ground transportation operation, Hong Kong Air Cargo Logistics, that will serve the local Hong Kong market in tandem with the airline.Zeng Meng, assistant chief executive officer of Hong Kong Air Cargo, said: “With the completion of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai-Macao bridge, the ...
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RJ to resume Erbil and Sulaymaniyah flights
Following Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi’s announcement on March 13 that Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports in Iraq would be reopened, Royal Jordanian will relaunch scheduled flights to the two cities on April 1.The carrier will fly from Amman to Erbil 10 times a week and to Sulaymaniyah four times a ...
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LATAM revenues rise
LATAM Airlines Group has revealed the first annual revenue expansion since the combination of LAN and TAM in 2011, reporting a year-on-year rise in revenues of 6.7% to $10,163.8m for 2017.Cargo activity contributed 11% ($1,119.4m) of the total operating revenue for the year.Statistics for 2017 as compared to 2016 showed ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo doubles Jo’burg flights
On October 28, Virgin Atlantic Cargo will double its services between London and Johannesburg with the launch of a second daily flight using a Boeing 787-9 aircraft that can carry up to 24 tonnes of cargo.Meanwhile, the carrier will open a local Contact Centre this April to support customers in ...
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Nimbus paves Yakutsk runway with gold
Russia’s Investigative Committee has confirmed that a Nimbus Antonov 12 aircraft spilled part of its 9-ton cargo of precious metals onto the runway of Yakutsk Airport in the Sakha Republic in Russia.Reports said that the cargo of ingots belonged to the Chukotka Mining and Geological Company and was on its ...
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Brussels load factor dips
Brussels Airlines has posted a slight decline in its cargo load factor for February, down 1.8 percentage points year on year at 74%.Freight volumes carried in the airline’s bellyhold space “grew significantly” during the month, rising 35% – but capacity grew faster. Available ton-km stood at 167.446 while revenue ton-km ...
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Lufthansa achieves best results yet
Lufthansa Group achieved its best-ever results in 2017, with total revenues up 12.4% to €35.6bn and earnings growth primarily driven by its airlines – including cargo.A combination of cost reductions and strong demand helped Lufthansa Cargo to improve its adjusted EBIT by almost €300m to €242m, a statement said.For the ...
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Spohr to stay on as Lufthansa CEO
Carsten Spohr is to remain in his post as chief executive of Deutsche Lufthansa for another five-year term.The group’s supervisory board has extended SPohr’s contract through December 2023. He has been a member of the executive board of Deutsche Lufthansa since 2011 and its chief executive since 2014.The board’s chairman, ...
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IATA e-DGD: “a powerful step forward”
IATA has adopted e-Dangerous Goods Declaration (e-DGD) standards at the World Cargo Symposium taking place in Dallas, Texas on March 13-15.An electronic approach to managing the IATA Dangerous Goods Declaration (DGD), the e-DGD leverages industry initiatives to digitise data and embrace data-sharing platform principles, the association said.Implementation of e-DGD supports ...