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Temporary suspension of Astral's South Sudan freighters
Kenyan-based carrier Astral Aviation temporarily suspended its three times a week cargo flights from Nairobi to Juba, following the outbreak of fighting in South Sudan.It has however been operating a chartered Fokker 100 on an evacuation mission, landing in Nairobi on July 12 with 96 passengers on board, after Juba ...
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New recruits help Emirates ride Columbus freighter boom
Emirates Skycargo is planning to recruit sales and operations managers and a supervisor to support its growing US freighter operation at Columbus Ohio’s Rickenbacker International Airport.The recruitment drive is to cope with burgeoning freight volumes, said Emirates Skycargo's central US regional manager, Arthur Brown.It follows an increase in frequencies between ...
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Qatar Airways to take LATAM stake
Qatar Airways signed a deal at the Farnborough Air Show today to acquire up to 10% of shares in LATAM.Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker, described the move as “an exciting opportunity to invest and support the development of our long-term relationship. As a leading airline in Latin ...
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United becomes a DHL cool carrier
United Cargo has won one of the first DHL carrier awards for reliability and excellence. Aiming to set a new industry standard for air transport of temperature-sensitive life science products, the accolade was presented at DHL’s recent Global Life Sciences and Healthcare Conference in Miami.Award winners were ranked on performance, ...
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Faster than a speeding Boeing
CargoLogicAir is to help the Bloodhound Project in its quest to break the land speed record and to break the 1,000mph barrier. The new British freighter operator has signed a memorandum of understanding as the exclusive air cargo partner for the attempt to set a new world land speed record ...
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Boeing sees uptick in freighter demand but prices slump
US plane-maker Boeing has marginally increased its forecast for world freighter demand in the latest edition of its Current Market Outlook (CMO) for 2016-35.It predicted that replacement of ageing airplanes, and growth, would create a demand for 2,370 freighter deliveries over the next 20 years to 2025. Of these, 1,440 ...
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Jumbo freighter set for Indian summer in Russia?
The Boeing 747 may be in retreat as a passenger plane but the freighter version could receive a boost if Boeing signs a deal with Russian carrier Volga Dnepr at the UK's Farnborough Airshow tomorrow.News agency reports suggest that the US plane maker is expected to firm up at least ...
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More and bigger planes, predicts Airbus
European aircraft-maker Airbus predicted that the global market would grow at an average 4.5% a year to 33,000 new planes by 2035.In its report published at the Farnborough Airshow in the UK, the Toulouse-based pan-European company added that the estimated $5trn order book would include 645 freighters with capacity of ...
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Qatar becomes cargo carrier number three
Qatar Airways Cargo became the third-largest cargo operator in the world in October 2015, said the Middle East carrier in its 2015/16 annual report.In what it described as a record year, Qatar increased its dedicated freighter destinations to 54, adding Dallas, Budapest, Prague, Ho Chi Minh City, and New York ...
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Luxembourg pilots join call for Mid East carrier curbs
The Luxembourg pilots’ association has joined a group calling for fair competition in European aviation, which they argue is "competing with the state-funded airlines of the Gulf region".The Association Luxembourgeoise des Pilotes de Ligne (ALPL) said that it, together with other pilot associations and the European Cockpit Association, had become ...
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NewsBoeing pegs up plane market prediction
Boeing has notched up its predictions for aircraft demand in the next 20 years in its current market outlook, published as the UK’s Farnborough Airshow got underway.The planemaker raised its forecast demand for new aircraft over the next 20 years, by 4.1% to 39,620 and put the total value of ...
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Virgin signals end of the Jumbo with A350-1000 order
Virgin Atlantic announced a firm order for 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, worth $4.4bn, at the UK’s Farnborough Airshow. The aircraft, the largest in the A350 family and with a cargo capacity of up to 14 pallets, will replace the carrier’s remaining Boeing 747-400s and Airbus A340-600s when deliveries start in ...
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Queuing for Cuba: 10 services between US and Havana gain tentative approval
Scheduled airline services from 10 US cities to Cuba have been granted tentative approval from the government to operate services to Cuba.US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx proposed to select eight US airlines to begin scheduled flights between Atlanta, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York City, Orlando, ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: FedEx takes six B767s
Each month Air Cargo News reports the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.FedEx in for six B767sExpress operator FedEx continued to order new aircraft during June, this time placing an order for six Boeing 767-300 freighters.These aircraft bring the total number of freighters ordered by FedEx in 2016 to ...
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NewsTop 25 air cargo carriers 2015: FedEx maintains top spot
FedEx has once again topped the list of the world’s busiest air cargo carriers in 2015, with the top 25 seeing demand increase ahead of the overall market, fuelled by Middle Eastern and all-cargo airlines.The annual IATA World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) report revealed that FedEx managed to maintain its ...
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Southwest Cargo adds new Wichita services
US airline Southwest Cargo has announced it will begin offering four daily departures from a new facility in Wichita, Kansas.The Texas-based airline’s cargo arm said that from July 14 it will begin offering cargo service on four daily departures from Wichita to Las Vegas, Phoenix, and St Louis with connecting ...
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NewsIATA confirms slowdown in air cargo demand growth in May
Airfreight demand growth slowed in May after showing signs of improvement in April.The latest IATA figures show a 0.9% year on year increase in freight tonne km demand in May. This follows a 3.2% improvement in April.However, at the time the April figures were announced, IATA warned prospects looked bleak, ...
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Charter broker ACS wins supplier role for UK government
Air Charter Service (ACS) has been selected as a supplier for the UK Government’s humanitarian division, the Department for International Development (DFID), for the next two years.The awarding of the contract comes one year after DFID invited the air cargo community to seek solutions for "timely, efficient and coordinated" air ...
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NewsBusiness pushes for quick UK decision on runway capacity
The president of the UK’s largest business group, the CBI, will call on the British government to make a swift decision on new runway capacity in the south east of England.In a wide-ranging speech at The Infrastructure Forum’s policy summit in London, CBI president Paul Drechsler will say: “A decision ...
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Volaris picks SmartKargo's cloud-based management system
Mexico City-based Volaris, Mexico’s second largest airline, has chosen SmartKargo’s Cloud-based air cargo management system.Volaris, with a cargo network from 22 US markets to destinations throughout Mexico and Central America, saw SmartKargo’s system go live in a “record” 27 days.The SmartKargo platform features a one-screen booking interface, flexible pricing and ...