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Lufthansa Cargo to open facility at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport
Lufthansa Cargo will open a new facility at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to cater for standard freight, express freight and hazardous cargo.Lufthansa said cargo arriving at the regional airport will be handled and sealed by the station and then transported in regularly scheduled trucks under a ...
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CHEP to provide ULDs to support CargoLogicAir's "ambitious growth plans"
CargoLogicAir (CLA), the new British-registered cargo airline, has signed a ULD management agreement with CHEP Aerospace Solutions, the global provider of outsourced ULD pooling and repair.A joint statement said: “In view of CargoLogicAir's ambitious growth plans, the new agreement caters for a significant increase in the number of ULDs provided ...
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AF KLM takes over Delta Cargo sales and customer service in Germany and France
Delta Cargo has continued to form tighter bonds with its partner airlines as Air France KLM Cargo has taken over sales and customer service responsibilities for the US airline in France and Germany as part of the two companies’ north Atlantic joint venture.The two airlines said their customers will benefit ...
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Qantas adds Fort Worth freighter call
Qantas Freight will introduce a weekly freighter call to the southern US freight gateway of Dallas Fort Worth as part of its triangular route connecting Australia, China, the US and Australia.Qantas Freight operates four weekly Boeing 747-400F freighter services and from June 9 2016 one of these services will stop ...
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Thermal blanket has lithium-ion fires covered
Morgan Advanced Materials has launched a thermal bag to counter the fire risk from overheating Lithium-Ion batteries due to thermal runaway.Morgan said that its FireMaster battery bags have gone through an extensive period of testing in conjunction with Germanwings, part of the Lufthansa Group.The FireMaster bag, which measures 500 mm ...
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DHL Express moves Seattle air operation to Sea-Tac airport
DHL Express has moved its Seattle air operation down the road to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport from Boeing Field Airport in order to access Sea-Tac’s recently developed cargo facilities.The move will see DHL operate 20 flights per week using Boeing 757 and B767 freighter aircraft.The airport said the addition of DHL ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Vietjet in for B737s while AEI announces two deals
Each month Air Cargo News analyses the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.Vietjet finalises Vietnam’s largest ever commercial airplane purchaseVietJet has finalised an order for 100 Boeing single-aisle 737 MAX 200 airplanes, the largest ever single commercial airplane purchase in Vietnam aviation, valued at approximately $11.3bn at current list ...
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Aviation leaders talk about global humanitarian aid
Chief executives from major airlines and other partners have discussed the roles which the aviation sector can fulfill in delivering humanitarian aid.The interviews were conducted by Airlink, a non-profit organisation that links more than 35 commercial and charter airlines with humanitarian aid groups to fill cargo holds with aid goods ...
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IATA urges greater co-operation to counter terror threat
IATA, at its 72nd Annual General Meeting (AGM), has unanimously adopted a resolution that denounces terrorism and calls for intensified cooperation among governments as well as with the air transport industry.The resolution calls on governments and the air transport industry to work in partnership among themselves and with airlines to ...
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Banks expand ATSG's secured credit facility
US freighter lessor Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) has obtained commitments for an expansion of the revolver portion of its secured credit facility with a consortium of banks led by SunTrust by $100m, to $425m.ATSG, which in March signed a deal with internet retail giant Amazon to operate an air ...
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Virgin and Delta to co-locate UK cargo handling with dnata
Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo have signed long-term contracts with dnata to co-locate their cargo handling at 12 UK locations under a new ‘one roof’ handling strategy.Effective 8 June 2016, the co-location move covers London Heathrow, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London Gatwick where the carriers operate and at six ...
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Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa Cargo announce Hong Kong-Europe tie-up
Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa Cargo have signed a partnership that will see the two airlines offer a joint network of more than 140 flights per week between Hong Kong and 13 European destinations.The “highly integrated bilateral co-operation” is due to begin early next year and will see the two airlines ...
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NewsAsian carriers monthly: demand grows in April but yields under pressure
Asian air cargo carriers benefitted from better than expected demand in April but yields remained under pressure.The latest figures from Asian air cargo carriers show that the majority monitored in Air Cargo News’ monthly summary recorded an improvement compared with the rest of the year.This is partly down to the ...
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Airfreight industry to benefit from perishables growth despite modal shift
The airfreight industry will continue to benefit from growth in the perishables market despite the threat of ocean transport grabbing marketshare.Speaking at the Cool Chain Association (CCA) Perishables Summit in Barcelona, CAA member Janet Coldebella, who is also Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo business development manager – fresh, Americas, said that although ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo welcomes revamp of Delta partnership services
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has welcomed a re-organisation of transatlantic services as part of its partnership with Delta Air Lines.Yesterday, the two airlines announced a range of transatlantic service changes with a new four-times-a-week direct Heathrow-Portland flight, the first between the city and London, grabbing the headlines.Virgin will also take over ...
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Emirates launches Hong Kong, Delhi freighter to Dubai
Emirates SkyCargo is strengthening its footprint in the Far East and Indian sub-continent from today (June 1) with the launch of a weekly Boeing 777 freighter service from Hong Kong to Dubai via Delhi.The Dubai-based combination carrier said that new weekly service is being introduced to "tap increasing cargo movements ...
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Qatar adds extra Atlanta capacity
Qatar Airways Cargo has added bellyhold capacity to its Doha-Atlanta service through the addition of a Boeing 777 service.The Doha-hubbed airline's new service will fly daily and is in addition to the carrier's existing four-times a week freighter flight.Qatar now offers a combined 744 tonnes of capacity per week on ...
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Aid relief groups call for greater use of new aircraft delivery flights
Humanitarian aid groups have called on airlines to take advantage of positional flights for newly ordered aircraft to carry life-saving cargo to those in need.The appeal came from the Airbus Foundation, the International Foundation for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Airlink, which are attending the IATA ...
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Air cargo demand pick up down to extra weekend and Easter changes
The improvement in air cargo demand experienced in April was down to an extra weekend falling in the month and an earlier Easter holiday.Analyst WorldACD said that the 2.5% year on year improvement in air cargo demand in demand in April appeared to give cause for a little optimism.However, it ...
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Stormy market buffets IAG Cargo
IAG Cargo’s headline commercial revenue declined 1.5% to €26m in the first quarter of 2016 compared with January-March 2015 – but after adjusting the prior year's figures to reflect a directly comparable operation, it decreased 8.6%.The carrier blamed challenging market conditions continue. On a like for like basis, cargo volumes ...