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American Airlines Cargo updates cancellation policy to maximise capacity
American Airlines Cargo has updated its cancellation and fair booking policy to mitigate unused space on its flights during this challenging, capacity-limited period, caused by the coronavirus outbreak.Effective from May 1, the new fair booking policy will allow customers to cancel up to 48 hours prior to the flight's scheduled ...
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Airfreight community continues to support Covid-19 relief efforts
More members of the airfreight community are coming together to support the fight global fight against Covid-19.American Airlines is expanding its cargo-only operations this month to provide more than 5.5m pounds of capacity to transport critical goods between the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia.The carrier has added flights from ...
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American Airlines adds flights to combat capacity crunch
American Airlines is continuing to operate long-haul flights, carrying passengers and cargo, to make up for capacity lost as a result of low demand due to the coronavirus.The carrier will fly its widebody aircraft to locations including Auckland Airport, São Paulo International Airport and Honolulu International Airport.These flights are in ...
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American Airlines announces cargo-only PAX flights
American Airlines is the latest carriers to announce that it will use passenger aircraft for cargo-only operations.In a statement, American Airlines explained that its passenger aircraft, many of which had been grounded up to now because of low demand caused by the coronavirus outbreak, would be used to transport cargo ...
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Cargo escapes US ban on travel from Europe
The White House has clarified that cargo is not included in the US ban on travel from Europe announced as part of efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus.Yesterday, US president Donald Trump announced an unprecedented travel ban from most of Europe to the US would begin at the end ...
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Airlines shed light on booming bloom logistics
This Valentine's Day, millions of people sent and received flowers to mark the occasion. However, the process of harvesting and shipping the flowers – and the scale of it – is often overlooked.Each year, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of flowers are flown around the world in the weeks before ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines Cargo expands Elison's role
American Airlines Cargo has expanded the role of Rick Elieson from president of cargo, to president cargo and vice president international operations.Elison will continue to lead both the cargo division and also the carrier’s international airport operations in 60 countries, taking over from Jim Butler, who was recently named senior ...
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LATAM signs codeshare with Delta in shift away from American
South American carrier LATAM Airlines Group has signed new codeshare agreements with pending-equity owner Delta Air Lines and announced plans to discontinue its codeshare deal with American Airlines on 31 January 2020.The news from Santiago-based LATAM comes as that carrier progresses with a plan to align closely with Delta.News broke ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines Cargo flies brown bears to DFW
Fausto, the father of many of the bears on the flight to DFWYesterday (November 21), American Airlines Cargo flew 10 brown bears from Ezeiza International Airport near Buenos Aires in Argentina to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, Texas, on board one of its Boeing 787s.The bears, who had been living ...
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NewsKoch takes up digital venture role at IAG Cargo
Tristan Koch has joined IAG Cargo, where he spent much of his early career when the business operated as British Airways World Cargo.Koch takes up the position of managing director of start-up digital ventures at the cargo business of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling.In his previous role, from ...
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American Airlines Cargo's digital drive gathers momentum with iCargo roll out
American Airlines Cargo (AA Cargo) began rolling out a new end-to-end cargo management system on October 1.Powered by the iCargo platform and implemented in partnership with IBS Software, the new tool will replace most of AA Cargo’s legacy technology, reducing the number of systems from 90 to ten. It will ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines celebrates 75 years of cargo operations
Today, American Airlines is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its first cargo flight.The airline said it had a long history within the cargo sector, marked by industry firsts such as the first scheduled air cargo service in the world, the first pet carrier container, and the first unit load container ...
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American Airlines Cargo safely transports orangutan from Argentina to US
Last week (September 27) American Airlines Cargo has successfully moved Sandra, a 33-year-old orangutan with human rights from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Florida, US.When transporting Sandra from Ezeiza International Airport (EZE) to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), airline cargo staff provided care in accordance with federal labor laws and CDC ...
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NewsAmerican to fly to Haneda from DFW and LAX
American Airlines is to launch new links to Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) next year.From March 29, American and its Pacific Joint Business partner Japan Airlines will offer five times a daily flights to Haneda from four US ...
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Air cargo must invest to prepare for personalised medicines
A new report from DHL Global Forwarding and American Airlines Cargo has outlined the investments the logistics industry needs to make to prepare for the growth of personalised medicines in Latin America.The report “Patients, Processes and Partnerships: The Path to Personalized Medicine in Latin America” looks at the future of ...
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NewsMunich welcomes new Dallas/Fort Worth connection
Munich Airport has welcomed the inaugural new seasonal connection now offered by American Airlines (AA) between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and the Bavarian air hub.AA is operating daily flights with a Boeing 787-8 ‘Dreamliner’, as revealed in ACN yesterday. A cargo is offering freight capacity in the aircraft belly.In ...
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NewsJettainer to equip AA Cargo ULD fleet with COREInsight tracking technology
It's been a busy week for Jettainer, the Lufthansa Cargo subsidiary that handles outsourced ULD management for many freight carriers.Yesterday (June 5), ACN reported that Jettainer had taken over the skypooling online platform, and the Frankfurt-based company has also confirmed that it is equipping containers and pallets of American Airlines ...
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NewsAA Cargo introduces seasonal capacity on new German connections
American Airlines Cargo (AA Cargo) is now offering freight capacity on seasonal links to Munich and Berlin being launched this week by AA.AA inaugurates a new Boeing 787-800 ‘Dreamliner’ service to Munich from Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) today (June 6).This seasonal route represents a second AA widebody connection to Munich, complementing ...
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Air cargo remains optimistic
Cargo carriers are pragmatic about the current market situation despite headlines of doom and gloom on the back of volume declines.Speaking to Air Cargo News at the Air Cargo Europe exhibition in Munich, Qatar Airways chief officer cargo Guillaume Halleux said: “We cannot deny that the market is going down ...
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NewsIATA reports another decline for air cargo in February
Air cargo traffic declined again in February as the industry had its weakest month in terms of growth in the last three years and load factors tumbled again.Data from IATA shows that freight tonne kms declined by 4.7% year on year in February, while freight capacity was up by 2.7%. ...