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Airlander airship damaged while landing
The prototype Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 Airship has been damaged while landing at Cardington Airfield in the UK. There are no reports of injuries.It made its maiden flight earlier this month on August 18 (see video below).According to the BBC the £25m vehicle, described as the world's largest aircraft, ...
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VIDEO: World's longest aircraft makes maiden flight
The world’s longest aircraft – the Airlander 10 airship – has completed its maiden flight, taking off from Cardington Airfield in the UK last night (see end of article for video).The £25m aircraft had been due to make its maiden flight last Sunday, but take-off was delayed because of a ...
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Tighten up enforcement or face battery ban, says freight industry
Freight industry and manufacturing groups have written to governments worldwide to demand stricter enforcement of international regulations on the transport of lithium batteries.The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the Global Shippers Forum (GSF) and the International Air Cargo Association (TIACA), together with the US Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA), the European ...
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Difficult cargo markets hit Qantas Freight
Qantas Freight, the cargo arm of the Australian flag carrier, reported a 44% fall in full year earnings before interest and tax to A$64m, reflecting “difficult global cargo markets and the end of favourable legacy agreements with Australian Air Express”.Commenting on the airline’s full year results ended June 30, group ...
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Start-up Express Air Cargo signs up MRO provider as it prepares for launch
Tunisian start-up airline Express Air Cargo has appointed FL Technics as its maintenance, repair and overhaul service provider.Under the agreement, FL Technics will provide re-delivery checks on the carrier’s two owned Boeing 737 freighter aircraft.“Being a start-up airline, we had been obviously looking for a trusted EASA certified maintenance partner ...
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Quick-change operator seeks cargo business
Malta-based operator Maleth Aero is making its Boeing 737-300QC quick change aircraft available to the cargo market.The aircraft has until now been flying ad hoc summer passenger charters around Europe.Chief executive Michael O'Brien, said: "While we have initially operated the QC in a passenger configuration, we are actively seeking work ...
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Qatar launches freight load centre at Doha
Qatar Airways Cargo has launched a freight load control centre at its Middle East home hub in Doha.The new system will be an integral part of effective pallet loading procedures for the Middle East Gulf airline’s current fleet of 20 freighter aircraft.Qatar Airways’ chief officer cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann, said: “Automation ...
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VIDEO: IAG Cargo supports The Who's fiftieth anniversary tour
VIDEO: IAG Cargo have has been providing transport services for The Who's fiftieth anniversary global tour that includes 65 shows spanning 100,000 thousand miles.Over the course of five months, IAG Cargo was responsible for transporting key equipment for The Who’s 65 shows in North America, out of a planned 100 ...
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Bangladesh's forwarders call for more charter flights amidst capacity shortage
Bangladesh-based freight forwarders are calling for the government to speed up the approval of cargo charter flights as they face an airfreight capacity shortage.In written comments seen by Air Cargo News, the Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association (BAFFA) wrote to one of the Bangladesh’s leading newspapers calling on the government to ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Boeing confirms Volga-Dnepr deal, conversions snapped up
Each month Air Cargo News analyses the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.Boeing signs freighter-logistics deal with Volga-DneprAs previously reported by Air Cargo News, Boeing signed a deal at the Farnborough Airshow with Russian heavylift airline Volga-Dnepr Group for 20 747-8 Freighters, including four that have already been delivered. ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo looks forward to new A350s
Virgin Atlantic’s cargo division is looking forward to extra capacity and increased fuel efficiency of the 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft that were ordered at last month's Farnborough International Airshow.The airline said the $4.4bn investment is part of a fleet modernisation programme, which will see 50% of Virgin Atlantic’s aircraft replaced ...
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IAG Cargo adds new freighter services through DHL partnership
IAG Cargo has announced it will begin offering two new European freighter services through its shared capacity agreement with DHL.One of the services will fly between Madrid and Amsterdam and the other will add a stop in Paris CDG to an existing London Luton-Frankfurt flight that IAG offers through its ...
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Cathay’s cargo revenue slips in weak market
Cathay Pacific Group’s cargo revenue fell away by 17.2% in the first six months of 2016, to HK$9.4bn, said the Hong Kong carrier.Cargo capacity on Cathay Pacific and Dragonair increased by 0.6% while load factor decreased by 1.9 percentage points, to 62.2% and tonnage carried decreased by 0.2%.Cathay attributed the ...
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Finnair unveils plan to save €20m a year as cargo market remains uncertain
Finnair unveiled a €20m cost efficiency programme on the same day that it announced its half-year results, in which it admitted that the outlook for cargo and passenger traffic in its main markets remains uncertain.The Finnish flag carrier said that while savings programmes in 2011-14 have improved its performance, it ...
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Cargo demand weakens at Brussels Airport as airlines reduce services
UPDATE: Brussels Airport saw cargo volumes decline in July as airlines reduced services and cancelled flights in response to weakening demand.The European airport saw total cargo volumes decline by 8.8% year on year in July to 39,689 tons. The largest decrease in percentage terms was felt by its belly cargo ...
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Japan gives go-ahead for Iberia to join airline grouping
Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has extended anti-trust immunity to include Spanish flag carrier Iberia in the cooperation between Japan Airlines, British Airways and Finnair.It will allow the four airlines to cooperate commercially on flights between Europe and Japan, including a new service between Madrid and Tokyo ...
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Good day for American in London
American Airlines Cargo shipped a record 575,000lbs (260,000kg) of freight and mail from London Heathrow (LHR) in a single day on Sunday 31 July, setting a new daily record for the station.American Airlines, which completed a merger with US Airways last year, broke its previous daily record in London in ...
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Tech loss drags down Air T
US-based overnight air cargo and aviation support company Air T reported a loss of $3.68 million in the first quarter of the 2016/17 financial year, which ended June 30.However, the figures included those of new acquisition Delphax Technologies, which ran up an operating loss of $6.9m including $5.6m in impairment ...
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BAE looks to launch RJ100 P2F conversion programme
BAE Systems is hoping to launch a passenger-to-freighter conversion programme for the Avro RJ jetliner and is seeking customer feedback to asses market potential.The principal variant for conversion would be the RJ100 aircraft, which are now starting to come out of passenger service and will be available over the next ...
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Emirates to fly A380 to Guangzhou
Emirates is to replace the 777-300ER on its daily Dubai-Guangzhou route with an A380 from October 1. It follows recent announcements of A380 deployment on its Milan and Johannesburg routes.Other destinations served by Emirates A380 include Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, London, Paris, Sydney, Toronto, Auckland, Bangkok, and Seoul.Although the ...