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AF KLM Cargo adds four winter destinations
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has announced it will add four new destinations to its winter schedule.From October 29, the Franco Dutch airline group will add new services to Malé in the Maldives, San José in Costa Rica, Port Louis in Mauritius and Mumbai.The Malé service will operate from Paris ...
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Cathay Pacific gains CEIV Pharma
Cathay Pacific has become the first airline in Hong Kong to be awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification.Ronald Lam, Cathay Pacific’s director commercial and cargo, said: “Cathay Pacific Cargo adheres to the highest operating standards and this certification highlights our capabilities in handling these precious, time-sensitive and often life-saving shipments.”CEIV Pharma ...
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Lufthansa sees cargo business continue to improve in third quarter
Lufthansa’s cargo and logistics division saw revenues and operating profits continue to improve during the third quarter of the year as the market maintained its upward trend and the carrier offloaded two MD-11Fs.The German airline’s logistics division, which includes Lufthansa Cargo, Jettainer, time:matters and an equity investment in AeroLogic, saw ...
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WFS wins Qatar Airways handling contract for Pittsburgh freighter
Qatar Airways Cargo has appointed Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) to provide cargo handling for its new twice-weekly Being 777 freighter services to Pittsburgh.The flight makes Qatar Airways the first international airline to begin a scheduled freighter service to the Pennsylvanian hub, and it becomes the Middle East airline’s fifth freighter ...
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Silk Way West inks ULD deal with ACL Airshop
Silk Way West Airlines has confirmed a multi-year unit load device (ULD) agreement with ULD management company ACL Airshop, starting next month (November).The deal extends a long-standing business relationship between the two companies, with ACL Airshop being a service partner with other airline units of Silk Way Holding for almost ...
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Forwarders look to secure airfreight capacity for busy peak
Freight forwarders are bracing for a busy peak period by securing air cargo capacity under block space (BSA) and ACMI agreements.Speaking shortly after announcing third-quarter results, Panalpina said it expected capacity to be an issue while slot constraints at airports, a veiled reference to the issues at Schiphol, would also ...
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Cargo demand up in Asia Pacific but carriers still face pressure
Asia Pacific carriers reported another month of cargo growth in September, but continued to come under pressure due to fierce competition in the region.The latest figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) show that cargo demand increased by a “solid” 11.4% year on year in September to 6bn ...
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Trinity and Etihad launch B777F to Hanoi from Ohio
Trinity Logistics USA and Etihad Airways have again joined forces to launch a weekly Boeing 777 freighter service between Hanoi in Vietnam and Ohio’s Rickenbacker airport (Columbus) in the US.The US logistics operator and the Middle East carrier already operate a joint twice a week B777F to Asia, from Colombo ...
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Canada Post extends Cargojet contract
Cargojet has secured an early extension to its major contract with the Canada Post Group of Companies (CPGOP).The Canadian freighter operator revealed today that its contract with Canada Post had been extended by three years and would now run until March 31, 2025."Cargojet is extremely pleased to have successfully transitioned ...
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Second Super Hercules commercial freighter takes to the skies
Lockheed Martin carried out a successful test of its second LM-100J commercial freighter, which is based on the Super Hercules military aircraft, on October 11."The flight was outstanding and the aircraft's performance was flawless," said Wayne Roberts, LM-100J chief test pilot."After this completely successful first airworthiness flight, this aircraft will ...
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IAG Cargo looks to high-tech to fill new San Fransisco service
IAG Cargo will target high-tech volumes to fill a new service being introduced between Madrid and San Fransisco next year.The service is being launched by IAG-owned Iberia in April next year for the summer season. The service will be operated with an A330-200 aircraft, with a 14 tonne capacity, and ...
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Justin Carr joins Etihad from DHL
Etihad Cargo has appointed Justin Carr as vice president cargo commercial and also confirmed that senior vice president David Kerr will leave the Middle East airline at the end of the year to "pursue another opportunity within the industry".Carr, who has more than two decades of logistics industry experience, joins ...
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CargoLogicAir adds scheduled link ex-Europe to Dubai and Hong Kong
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has launched its second scheduled cargo service with a weekly route connecting London and Frankfurt with Dubai and Hong Kong.This latest new route for the British all-cargo airline follows the launch of CLA’s first scheduled operation in August, when it introduced twice-weekly B747-400 flights from London Stansted Airport ...
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Cargolux renews safety certificate
Cargolux has passed its sixth IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) audit with "exceptionally good results".The IOSA programme is designed to assess the operational management and control systems of an airline.During the five-day renewal, which takes place every two years, the airline was audited Cargolux on about 900 different standards.In preparation ...
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Suparna looks to add new long-haul freighter services
Suparna Airlines, formerly Yangtze River Airlines and known in China as Jinpeng, has applied to open three new long-haul freighter services.The Xi'an Xianyang International Airport-hubbed airline has applied to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to add two China-Europe services and one transpacific operation on the trade lane utilising ...
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NewsAsia Cargo Monthly: Record week for Cathay Pacific
Asian airlines continued to report strong cargo figures in September, with Cathay Pacific breaking a cargo record and reporting improving yields.The latest figures from airlines in the regions show that there was some slowdown in growth in September at certain airlines but overall cargo continued to improve.The region’s largest cargo ...
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Turbulent times for Europe’s leisure airlines
Europe’s low-cost leisure airlines have faced a tough year, with airberlin, Monarch and Alitalia all filling for bankruptcy.The latest development in the long-running Alitalia saga saw Germany’s Lufthansa Group and the UK’s EasyJet submit an offer for parts of the insolvent Italian airline.Although details were thin on the ground, Lufthansa ...
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Qatar Airways joins partnership to combat wildlife trafficking
Qatar Airways has joined a group of private sector, non-government organisations and government agencies to combat wildlife crime across transportation networks.As a partner in the USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) Partnership, Qatar Airways has increased its commitment as a signatory to the United for Wildlife ...
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Alaska Airlines adds freight to its loyalty programme
Alaska Airlines has added a new freight benefit for members of its Club 49 loyalty programme that will give members a discount when shipping cargo.The new perk, dubbed "Freight for Less," enables members to save up to 90% when shipping cargo intra-state.When travelling within the state of Alaska, Club 49 ...
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ANTONOV Airlines in AN-124-100 compressor move
ANTONOV Airlines has transported four compressor skids on behalf of Bolloré Logistics China from Calgary, Canada to Mary, Turkmenistan on one of its seven AN-124-100 aircraft.The compressor skids were recently transported for a Chinese Oil & Gas Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) company on four separate flights for a gas ...