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Setback for Cargolux peace talks
Cargolux management said that talks on a new collective work agreement (CWA) with the LCGB pilots' union were cut short after the union “surprisingly backtracked on the agreement in principal reached on December 1.”According to the Luxembourg-based all-cargo airline, LCGB “declared unexpectedly to all participants that they considered the negotiations ...
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Freight falls back in October, says IATA
Freight-tonne-kilometres volumes fell back in October after showing signs of modest growth in the third quarter, said IATA in its latest Financial Monitor. Volumes fell in October compared with September, from around 17.5 billion FTKs to just over 17bn FTKs. And while passenger load factors reached a new record high ...
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Royal Jordanian’s Turkish delight
Royal Jordanian celebrated the return of regular flights to the Turkish capital with a ceremony in Ankara on 9 December. The Airbus 321 was greeted on arrival from Amman by Jordanian Ambassador to Turkey Amjad Adayleh at a at Ankara’s Esenboğa International Airport.Flights had been suspended for ten years for ...
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The world’s our lobster, says Emirates
Emirates SkyCargo has now shipped 35,000 tonnes of Cool Chain products through its freighter hub at Al Maktoum International-Dubai World Central (DWC) which opened earlier this year.The SkyCentral facility has 15,000 square metres of dedicated storage for temperature-sensitive goods and complements services such as Emirates SkyCargo White Cover, a protective ...
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Would the owner of a white Boeing 747F, registration TF-ARN…
Many of us will at some time have had to ring up officialdom asking them to remove an abandoned car from our street but Kuala Lumpur International in Malaysia is experiencing the problem on a much bigger scale. Someone has dumped three Boeing 747-200 freighters at the airport.Decluttering airport officials ...
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Future pharma boost for Tel Aviv-London
IAG Cargo pharma traffic between the UK and Israel will benefit from an aircraft upgrade on the carrier’s London Heathrow-Tel Aviv route from March 2016.The carrier is replacing its remaining Airbus A321 with wide-body Boeing 777-200s, which will operate twice daily.The cargo arm of British Airways and Iberia of Spain ...
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Vueling fueling IAG Cargo growth
IAG has added 26 new stations from its low-cost carrier arm Vueling to the group's cargo network, bringing its total to 128 stations in Europe and increasing the number of point to point options.The new stations will open up smaller, provincial airports as well as bigger European hubs for IAG ...
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AirBridgeCargo renews safety certificate
Russia’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has renewed its IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) for a further two years following a five-day independent audit.Inspectors reviewed the carrier’s flight performance, operating control, maintenance and ground handling, aviation security and quality management under the standard two-year re-evaluation scheme.IOSA certified airlines have a crash rate ...
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No paper please, says Air Canada
Air Canada Cargo says that electronic air waybills (e-AWBs) will become the preferred method of shipping cargo at seven of its international stations from next year.They are Amsterdam (effective 1 January), Paris CDG, Frankfurt (FRA) (both 1 February) and London Heathrow, Zurich, Milan and Dubai (all 1 March).The carrier is ...
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Cathay Pacific reaches C$6m settlement over alleged air cargo cartel in Canada
Cathay Pacific has reached a C$6m settlement agreement with respect to the civil cargo antitrust class action against it and other airlines in Canada.The settlement is in connection with the alleged air cargo cartel which has cost airlines billions of dollars in settlement agreements in various jurisdictions across the world.In ...
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Emirates to increase passenger cargo capacity in 2016
Emirates' passenger fleet retirement plan and delivery schedule for 2016 will result in an increase in its potential cargo carrying capacity.The Dubai-headquartered carrier will retire 26 aircraft next year; 12 A330-300s, four A340-300s, one A340-500, six Boeing 777-200ERs, two Boeing 777-300s and one Boeing 777-300ER.In addition, 13 more aircraft will ...
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To boldly go: ex-Virgin B747-400 enters the space race
Virgin Galactic will use a B747-400 to air launch small satellite payloads.The commercial passenger jet, previously operated by Virgin Atlantic under the nickname Cosmic Girl, will provide a dedicated launch platform for the LauncherOne orbital vehicle.“Air launch enables us to provide rapid, responsive service to our satellite customers on a ...
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Donations pour in as Volga-Dnepr pays last respects to air crew
On November 30, a civil funeral service was held in Ulyanovsk to remember the six Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ employees who were among 19 people killed during the terrorist attack at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali in western Africa, on November 20.“The ceremony was attended by thousands ...
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Air cargo growth flat lines in October
A weakening of air cargo growth at European carriers caused overall demand to flat-line in October, according to the latest data from IATA.IATA's latest figures show that air cargo demand in freight tonne km rose just 0.5% in October compared with a year ago.The growth was lower than the one ...
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Freighters World: Asian capacity shifts
From the latest edition of Freighters World, out now...In a short-lived venture nearly twenty years ago United Airlines was running a transpacific freighter operation centred on Tokyo, writes Ian Putzger.On the tarmac at Narita airport, the US carrier’s DC-10-30Fs stood out like strange minnows surrounded by behemoths. Practically all the ...
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Cargolux hails “breakthrough” but unions remain "very cautious"
Cargolux has announced a “major breakthrough” in its negotiations with the OGBL and LCGB ground staff and pilot unions on a new collective work agreement (CWA).However, the pilots body Association Luxembourgeoise des Pilotes de Ligne (ALPL) spoke of a "slightly too enthusiastic press release” published by the European all-cargo and ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Eva Air, EasyJet and IAG place orders in November
Welcome to the first of a new monthly feature analysing the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.EasyJet orders an additional 36 A320 Family aircraftEasyJet has signed a firm order for a further 36 A320 Family aircraft taking its cumulative order for the type to 451.The agreement for six A320ceo ...
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Lufthansa-ANA cargo joint venture to serve Fukuoka and Sapporo
Lufthansa Cargo and All Nippon Airways Cargo (ANA) are expanding their year-long network joint venture between Europe and Japan by adding destinations in Japan.Fukuoka on the main island Kyushu in south Japan will be the first destination to be added, later to be followed by Sapporo on the north island.Starting ...
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ECS scoops Meridiana GSSA contract
ECS Group has won a contract to provide global general sales and service agent services to Italian leisure airline Meridiana.Under the three year contract, ECS will provide its total cargo management services to Meridiana, mainly focussing on its prime cargo routes to and from Mexico, the US and the Dominican ...
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Finnair to sell decommissioned Helsinki cargo facility
Finnair is to sell its current Helsinki Airport cargo terminal site, set to be decommissioned in 2017, to Finnish airports group Finavia.Finnair’s cargo operations will continue in the terminal until they are relocated to a new facility in 2017, the airline confirmed.It stated: “Finnair’s strategic objective is to double its ...