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IAG Cargo appoints new chief executive
Andrew Crawley, currently British Airways chief commercial officer, is to become chief executive of IAG Cargo from January 2016.He will report into IAG chief executive Willie Walsh and become a member of the Group’s management committee.Crawley will replace Steve Gunning who is leaving IAG Cargo in January to become British ...
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The challenge of meeting pharmaceutical supply chain requirements
Air cargo carriers face the challenge of balancing the need to make investments to meet the needs of pharmaceutical shippers and justifying those investments to finance departments.Speaking at the Air Cargo News Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals conference, American Airlines manager cold chain strategy Tom Grubb provided an example of how ...
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European court overturns fines imposed on carriers for alleged air cargo cartel
The General Court of the European Union has annulled fines totalling nearly €800m imposed by the European Commission against a range of airlines for the alleged fixing of airfreight charges.According to the Court, "the grounds and the operative part of the decision are contradictory".The airlines named in the original lawsuit ...
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Winter jackets for refugees delivered by China Southern
China Southern Airlines has transported thousands of winter jackets to Europe for Syrian refugees in Germany, part of a donation by Chinese-Australian businessman Henry Ngai.The 1.5 tonnes load spurred a major logistical effort involving China Southern Airlines, the German government and the German Red Cross.The A$1.15m donation for 100,000 jackets ...
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European Court judgement ruling
Here is the full text of a press release published by the General Court of the European Union regarding its annulment of the fines imposed by the European Commission on several airlines for an alleged cargo rate cartel:The General Court annuls the decision by which the Commission imposed fines amounting ...
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LatAm pharma boost for IAG Cargo
IAG Cargo’s Constant Climate pharma product will have access to three new passenger routes in Latin America from the summer of 2016, offering bellyhold capacity to growing life science markets.From summer 2016, the carrier will operate direct flights from London Gatwick to San Jose, Costa Rica and Lima, Peru. In ...
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If you have a hoverboard, you won’t fly warns Qatar
Qatar Airways has banned hoverboards and similar devices as checked-in or cabin baggage on all its flights. It applies regardless of the watt-hour rating of the Lithium battery that power the devices “due to concerns regarding the questionable quality of such items and the potential fire hazard associated with their ...
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Hactl welcomes back Mynmar
Myanmar National Airlines has appointed Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) –to handle its newly-launched services from Yangon.The airline, which as Union of Burma Airways, can trace its origins back to 1948 and operated flights to Hong Kong in the 1950s, is emerging after 22 years of isolation and ...
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Yangtze River gets into passengers
Hitherto all-cargo Chinese carrier Yangtze River Express Airlines yesterday has gained Civil Aviation Administration permission to operate domestic passenger flights from Shanghai. Yangtze River Express, owned by Hainan Airlines, will operate passenger flights from Pudong International Airport to Sanya, Guiyang and Zhuhai with Boeing 737-800 aircraft. It already has 26 ...
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The show goes on, thanks to Qatar Cargo
In the absence of a magic carpet, Premium Events moved its production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from Bucharest to Doha’s on one of Qatar Airways cargo aircraft. The 70-tonne shipment, arranged by Qatar Airways Cargo’s dedicated charter team, took up an entire B747 freighter and included the full ...
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GDP doubts over airline certification
Airlines cannot be certificated for Good Distribution Practice (GDP) along the entire supply chain for pharmaceutical transport but can still be compliant to GDP standards.Annette Kreuziger of Lufthansa Cargo told a pharma conference in London that “it is not just possible” for airlines to assess all the varied third party ...
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China Postal Airlines orders ten B737-800 freighter conversions
China Postal Airlines has signed up with US planemaker Boeing for ten Next-Generation 737 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs), pending a program launch."This is a historic order both for China Postal and Boeing," said Yufeng Li, president of China Postal Airlines, who signed the agreement with Boeing in Beijing. He added: ...
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Cathay’s freight fails to catch up with passenger growth
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair passenger and cargo traffic showed divergent trends in November with a sizeable increase in the former but a fall cargo and mail uplifted compared with the same month in 2014.The two airlines carried 160,120 tonnes of cargo and mail in November, a 3.0% decrease compared to ...
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Ethiopian switch hurts Brussels’ cargo
The switch by Ethiopian Airlines to Dutch hub to Dutch hub Maastricht-Aachen hit Brussels Airport’s cargo traffic in November, said the Belgian airport.Cargo for the month fell by 5.7% and the full freighter segment by 15.5% after Ethiopian failed to get Belgian traffic rights for its onward flights to Dubai, ...
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e-AWB target of 56% by end of 2016 says IATA
IATA Cargo has set a 56% target for electronic air waybill (e-AWB) usage by the end of 2016, despite missing the 45% target for 2015.In October this year, the figure for e-AWB penetration was just 35.1% but Guillaume Drucy, IATA’s head of cargo e-business management, remained hopeful that ratio would ...
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Paris attacks and strike action take their toll on European air cargo carriers in November
The November monthly statistics from European air cargo carriers paint a bleak picture for the end of the year as demand declines, the Paris attacks and strike action affected European airlines cargo operations.IAG, Air France KLM, Lufthansa and Finnair all recorded year-on-year demand declines in November, with the German group ...
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Cathay Pacific runs airfreight test flight to Wellcamp Airport
Cathay Pacific has run an air cargo test flight to the Australian town of Toowoomba to gauge commercial interest in the region and to test operations.The Hong Kong-headquartered carrier deployed a Boeing 747-8 Freighter to Wellcamp Airport, which is located in one of Queensland’s richest agricultural areas.The airline said the ...
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Cargolux pilots' union 'opens the possiblity' of industrial action
The war of words between Cargolux and its pilots union have intensified with the LCGB union “opening the possibility to initiate industrial actions”.In November, more than 94% of the LCGB members at Cargolux voted in favour of industrial action if negotiations were unsuccessful.Today's sharply worded statement from the LCGB comes ...
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Lufthansa Cargo releases new tracking app for airfreight
Lufthansa Cargo has released a new app that offers customers the ability to track consignments but also offer feedback to the airline.The new Lufthansa Cargo eServices app updates users with information on their shipments on request via push notifications.It also allows customers to provide feedback on shipments, including the ability ...
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Lufthansa Cargo and United Cargo set for transatlantic co-operation deal
Lufthansa and United Airlines are to extend their current cooperation on passenger services to include cargo on routes between the US and Europe.The aim is to create “a seamless network” including alignment of IT and warehouse facilities. It will create a more efficient and comprehensive transatlantic cargo network and increase ...