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Slowdown for Asian airlines
Preliminary September traffic figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) showed a continuing divergence between the cargo and passenger business. The latter remains strong but airfreight remains weak, says AAPA.Air cargo markets remained subdued, with demand in freight tonne kilometre (FTK) terms only matching the same month last ...
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Second Zhengzhou flight for Cargolux Italia
Cargolux Italia has introduced a second weekly flight between Milan Malpensa and its Chinese hub at Zhengzhou. Flight C8 8777 leaves Milan on Sunday mornings at 11:50 and, like the existing service, operates via Novosibirsk, Russia. When Cargolux Italia introduced the first Zhengzhou flight in June, it also marked the ...
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Intra-Africa surge boosts Astral
Astral Aviation has enhanced its schedule from its Nairobi hub in response to an increase in intra-African load-factors.Astral, which flies operates a dedicated freighter fleet of Fokker 27, DC9, B727 and B747 aircraft, will now operate three weekly frequencies between Nairobi and Juba, South Sudan to cater for an increase ...
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China Southern adds another US route
The inaugural flight of a new China Southern freighter service to the US took off with 96 tons of cargo on its maiden flight on 22 October. The flight, operated by a 777-200F on a Guangzhou-Anchorage-Chicago-Tianjin-Guangzhou itinerary departs the Chinese city on Thursday and Sunday.China Southern now operates five cargo ...
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Air cargo demand stagnant while yields decline
Airline data continues to point towards difficult market conditions for air cargo carriers, but some regions are showing improvements.Figures released today by WorldACD show that volumes during August increased 0.9% against last year while yields fell by 1.2% compared with July.The analyst said demand and yield data for the year ...
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Lufthansa to add new cargo partner by year end
Lufthansa is set to add a new joint venture partner by the end of the year, following the model it adopted with ANA. It believes this type of partnership overcomes the issues faced by cargo alliances in the past.Speaking at the Air Cargo News Freighters and Belly Cargo Conference, Lufthansa ...
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African airlines urged to look to opportunities at home
African airlines should co-operate more to take advantage of the growing intra-Africa market, according to Astral Aviation chief executive Sanjeev Gadhia.Speaking at Air Cargo News’ Freighters and Belly Cargo Conference, Gadhia said that African airlines tended to partner with foreign carriers rather than African carriers. However, the latter could open ...
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New Cargo Services System top priority for Cathay freight boss
The launch of Cathay Pacific’s Cargo Services System (CSS) in July 2016 is a top priority, says the carrier’s director of cargo, Simon Large.“It will be the nuts and bolts of the whole operation so it has to work – and work well,” he told a Cathay Pacific company magazine.Large ...
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Qatar heads to northern dynamo
QATAR Airways Cargo plans to launch a freighter service to Stavanger, Norway, effective 3 November. Stavanger is the European oil and gas capital, with many of the major oil and gas companies and supplier companies having their Norwegian headquarters located there.Another significant export around the world is fish, while imports ...
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Africa: Home-grown talent boosts all-cargo sector
To date, there have been few African freighter operators on the continent, and almost no all-cargo carriers. That has started to change with the arrival of Astral Aviation in Kenya and Khuphuka Kings Airways in South Africa.Khuphuka, operating out of Durban King Shaka airport, started cargo services in early 2014 ...
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Cash-strapped airlines call for IT investment
Speakers at an air cargo forum are expected to call for the entire air cargo industry to make investments in new IT and to switch over to new generation systems.Cargo airline representatives are due to assemble at the Four Seasons Hotel in Singapore on 21 October for software specialists IBS’ ...
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Air Canada offers online booking for AC Absolute
Booking requests for Air Canada Cargo’s AC Absolute temperature-controlled service can now be made online via a dedicated link on the carrier’s new e-Booking tool. Once logged in, users can enter their specific requirements for leasing active containers (for example, container type, size, quantity or set temperature) and the desired ...
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Lufthansa goes steady with Ho Chi Minh
Lufthansa Cargo is to make its Vietnam service permanent in its new winter schedule. Following a successful test phase over the summer, it will fly a Boeing 777F weekly to Ho Chi Minh City.The flight departs from Frankfurt is on Thursday, operating via Mumbai and terminating in Hong Kong.Vice president ...
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Two new Asian routes for Air China
Air China is to start two new passenger services in late October - Beijing-Kuala Lumpur nonstop on 25 October and Beijing-Islamabad-Karachi on 26 October.The Kuala Lumpur service will operate four times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday with Airbus 330-300 aircraft.The Islamabad-Karachi flight, the first by a Chinese ...
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Third United chief in six weeks as Hart steps into the breach
United Airlines has appointed its third chief executive in little more than six weeks after it named current executive vice president and general counsel, Brett Hart, as acting CEO. He takes over from Oscar Munoz, who was reported on 19 October to have taken medical leave following a heart attack, ...
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Soft airfreight pulls down Panalpina profits
Panalpina’s air freight volumes decreased 2% from January to September in what it described as a “very soft” market that grew less than 1% during that period. The Swiss-based forwarder says it moved less oil and gas and automotive cargo, but more perishables.Gross profit per ton decreased 4% to CHF ...
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It’s back to the Seventies Down Under
Qantas is to paint a second Boeing 737-800 aircraft in a 1970s retro livery to mark its 95th anniversary. The Australian airline wants to build on the popularity of the first historical livery unveiled last year.Group executive for brand, marketing and corporate affairs, Olivia Wirth, said: “You can see from ...
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Brussels to offer year-year Belfast link
New services due to be launched by Brussels Airlines in summer 2016 include year-round services to Belfast City, the first link from the Belgian capital to Northern Ireland. The service will operate five times a week on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.There will also be a new seasonal service ...
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Tiffany the trailblazer
She probably doesn’t know it, but Tiffany is a record-breaker - she has become the first live animal to be moved by American Airlines between the Netherlands and the US. Tiffany, an extremely rare Dutch Smoushond, travelled animal VIP class courtesy of specialist forwarder, Animals to Fly.AA Cargo’s GSA in ...
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Volga-Dnepr adds more Antonovs
Volga-Dnepr Group is to acquire two more An-124-100 Ruslan freighters following the signing of a lease agreement with JSC Sberbank.As the charter cargo arm of the Group, Volga-Dnepr Airlines will now operates a fleet of twelve AN-124-100 and five IL-76TD-90VD freighters, all of which comply with current and prospective ICAO ...