All Bellyhold Airline articles – Page 40
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Challenging market conditions hits IAG Cargo’s revenue
IAG CARGO has blamed weak market conditions for its drop in revenue during the first quarter of this year.The freight arm of British Airways and Iberia revealed commercial revenue (flown revenue plus fuel surcharges) dropped to €250m from the €270m recorded during the same period in 2013.Although cargo tonne kilometres ...
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Qatar Airways prepares for move
QATAR AIRWAYS, the national carrier of the State of Qatar, will officially move to its new home at Hamad International Airport (HIA) on 27 May.The relocation marks another milestone in the airline’s history not least because it has been based at Doha International Airport (four kilometres from HIA) for 17 ...
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Emirates Mexico City and Atlanta freighter service
EMIRATES SkyCargo has added Mexico City and Atlanta to its flight schedule, further expanding its freighter network to more than 50 destinations around the world.The once-a-week B777F service to the Mexican capital starts in Dubai with an en route stop in Frankfurt, with calls at Houston and Copenhagen on the ...
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Freighter fleet numbers set to grow
FREIGHTER FLEET numbers look set to grow by 2033 despite the rise in bellyhold cargo capacity, according to a new range of demand forecasts by the specialist aviation consultancy ACMG.According to Seattle-based ACMG, the air freight market will need about 100 new freighters per year over the next twenty years ...
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Lufthansa launches flyweight LD3s
NEW LIGHTWEIGHT LD3 containers will see Lufthansa Cargo cut its fuel consumption by 2,000 tonnes per year and reduce CO2 emissions.The containers, made from lighter composite materials, have a 14 kg weight saving over conventional LD3s.The German carrier, which has some 500,000 container movements per year, says that using the ...
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Cargo takes off at Hamad International Airport
CARGOLUX and Etihad Airways have begun operating their air cargo services out of Hamad International Airport (HIA).The flights carried out by the all-cargo European airline and the UAE flag-carrier comes after Qatar Airways Cargo’s new 77,000-sq m air cargo facility at the new airport handled its first shipment last December.HIA’s ...
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Saudia adds weekly freighters from Europe to Doha
SAUDIA CARGO is launching two B747 freighter services on weekly schedules from Europe to Doha, effective June 1 2014.Operating on Wednesdays from Frankfurt and on Sundays from Amsterdam, the new services are expected to meet growing demand in a market currently serviced by a handful of operators.Saudi Airlines Cargo operates ...
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Carriers must embrace change to survive, warns Coyne
Carriers must embrace change to survive in a new airfreight landscape defined by emerging global brands, modal shift, and growing freight capacity on passenger planes.That is the message from Larry Coyne, chief executive of UK-based charter airline Coyne Airways.He told delegates at the Air Cargo Club, meeting in France, that ...
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Etihad Cargo goes to Uganda
ETIHAD CARGO, the fast-growing freight business of UAE flag carrier Etihad Airways, has launched a new weekly A330-200 freighter service between Abu Dhabi and the Ugandan city of Entebbe.Situated on the shores of Lake Victoria and close to the capital Kampala, Entebbe is a major commercial centre in central Uganda.Etihad ...
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Etihad and Aegean mark code-share deal
ETIHAD AIRWAYS is marking its five-year codeshare partnership with Aegean Airlines by increasing its non-stop daily services between Athens and Abu Dhabi to 10 times per week, whilst the major Greek airline is set to launch new direct flights to the UAE capital.Since the flag carrier of the UAE commenced ...
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Emirates to add sixth Karachi service
EMIRATES is launching a sixth daily service to Karachi, Pakistan from August.The UAE carrier operates an A330-200 aircraft on the route and the additional daily service will provide a cargo payload of 17 tonnes.As Pakistan’s largest city, the added flight will help facilitate even better connectivity for cargo, says the ...
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Air France rejects CDG fleet speculation
AIR FRANCE CARGO has rejected a US report suggesting that the carrier may shed its freighter fleet based at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.A cargo spokesman for the French flag airline said that the report in the business press, citing Air France’s chief executive Alexandre de Juniac, was “not accurate ...
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Emirates adds cargo capacity on Boston route
FROM August, Emirates Airlines will add more cargo capacity to its newly-launched Boston service by replacing the B777-200LR currently operating on the route with a B777-300ER.The largest city of the state of Massachusetts is the airline’s eighth US destination and the 142th of its global network linking trading destinations across ...
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Blow for Airbus as Emirates cancels A350 XWB order
EMIRATES Airline has cancelled its order for 70 A350 XWB.The move follows the on-going discussions the carrier has been having with Airbus regarding its fleet requirement review, says the European ‘plane manufacturer.Emirates placed the order for 50 A350-900s and 20 A350-1000s back in 2007. They were scheduled for delivery from ...
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LATAM Airlines' cargo dip
REDUCTIONS in both bellyhold capacity and freighter operations saw cargo traffic at LATAM Airlines Group dip by 0.7 per cent in May, as capacity decreased 4.4 per cent.Said a spokesman for the Chile-based operator: “Cargo traffic decrease was driven by weaker imports into Latin America and a decrease in exports ...
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Good May for Cathay Cargo
CATHAY Pacific and Dragonair carried a combined total of 138,448 tonnes of cargo and mail in May, an encouraging increase of 13.9 on the same month last year.The cargo and mail load factor rose by 1.9 percentage points to 63.0 per cent in the period.Capacity, measured in available cargo/mail tonne ...
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Etihad Cargo starts Dar es Salaam freighter service
ETIHAD CARGO has launched a weekly freighter service from Abu Dhabi to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.The Middle East carrier is using one of its A330-200 wide-body freighters, with heavy uplift capability of up to 64 tonnes, on the route. The return leg from Julius Nyerere International Airport will also stop ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo supports solar energy
QATAR Airways Cargo has further linked itself to renewable energy by sponsoring the opening ceremony of the Qatar Solar Energy factory and research facility in Doha.The facility, which can produce solar panels capable of generating as much as 300 megawatts of energy annually, is located at Doha’s new industrial area.In ...
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Etihad Cargo adds new capacity to Switzerland and USA
ETIHAD CARGO has augmented its services to Switzerland and to the United States by offering new bellyhold cargo capacity on daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Zurich and Los Angeles.The flag carrier of the UAE already flies to Geneva, and to Chicago, New York and Washington DC in the USA.The ...
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Etihad cargo soars in April and May
ETIHAD Cargo uplifted record tonnage across the globe in April and May 2014, pushing the carrier into the world’s top 10.In April, it moved 44,730 tonnes around the world, 30 per cent more than in April last year.May also saw an impressive performance across Etihad Cargo’s network, with 48,869 tonnes ...