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IAG Cargo hopes new Paris-New York service will appeal to forwarders
IAG Cargo is hoping that its new service between Paris and New York will appeal to French freight forwarders looking for a more "local hub".The service flies four times a week between Paris Orly and Newark New Jersey airports using a B767-200 aircraft.While a passenger flight has been flying the ...
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Lufthansa makes new pay offer to pilots as strikes continue
Lufthansa has made an improved pay offer to pilots as it tries to avoid further industrial action related to a dispute over wages.The German airline giant said it is now offering a two-step 4.4% increase in remuneration plus a one-off payment. Remuneration would be increased by 2.4% for 2016 and ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: Bumper month for United and American
October was another bumper month for United Airlines and American Airlines on the demand front as both carriers reported double-digit increases in cargo demand, while Delta’s traffic for the month slipped on a year ago.United, the country’s largest cargo carrier, recorded an 18.1% year-on-year increase in demand to 275m cargo ...
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NewsIAG Cargo's better than expected peak fuelled by e-commerce
IAG Cargo has reported a “better than expected” peak season with traffic from the Asia Pacific region leading the charge.Speaking to Air Cargo News, IAG commercial director David Shepherd said that the improvements in demand were being fuelled by e-commerce growth.“Peak season is probably going a little bit better than ...
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Lufthansa pilot strike extended into Saturday
Lufthansa pilots will extend their strike action into the weekend, this time targeting only long-haul flights and with all-cargo flights again escaping the industrial action.The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union announced last night that the industrial action they first launched on Wednesday would be extended to run from 00.01 on Saturday ...
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Airbus’s new A350-1000 takes to the skies
Airbus’s newest XWB (extra Wide Body) option, the A350-1000, took off early this morning (24 November) on its maiden flight.The maiden test flight out of Toulouse Blagnac and over south-western France marked the launch of the aircraft type’s flight-test programme. Three developmental aircraft will prepare the A350-1000 model for certification.According ...
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Qatar Airways switches to B777 on Cape Town run
Qatar Airways has begun operating freight-friendly Boeing 777 aircraft on the Doha - Cape Town service, switching from previously used B787 ‘Dreamliner’ equipment.The Doha-based carrier has been flying to Cape Town from its Doha hub since 2005. Initially served as part of a four times a week route that also ...
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Lufthansa readies itself for first A350-900 deliveries
German flag-carrier Lufthansa is to receive its first Airbus 350-900 on 19 December, an aircraft that it describes as the world’s most modern long-haul aircraft.It will be based at Lufthansa’s Munich hub and it is to operate its first scheduled commercial flight from the Bavarian gateway to Delhi on 10 ...
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Royal Jordanian takes delivery of sixth B787
Royal Jordanian (RJ) has taken delivery of its latest – its sixth – Boeing 787 Dreamliner.The aircraft flew into Amman, RJ’s home hub, direct from the Boeing manufacturing facility in Seattle on the west coast of the US.This aircraft and a seventh B787, expected to join the RJ fleet at ...
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Emirates Group profits slide 64% while cargo volumes remain flat
The Emirates Group saw profits decline by 64% in the first half of the year, while cargo volumes remained stable and capacity increased 9%.Group revenues for the first six months of the financial year, which include Emirates and dnata figures, increased by 1% on the same period last year to ...
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Air Cargo Forum: Boeing lowers air cargo growth forecast but remains positive
Boeing has lowered its forecast for global air cargo demand over the next 20 years but it still expects roughly the same number of freighter aircraft to be required.Speaking at a press conference at the Tiaca Air Cargo Forum in Paris, Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president of marketing Randy Tinseth ...
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IAG Cargo to strengthen network across North America
IAG Cargo will launch two new routes from London-Gatwick to North America in the first quarter of 2017, adding Boeing 777-200 bellyhold capacity to Fort Lauderdale and Oakland.The addition of these routes will bring the total number of IAG Cargo-operated US gateways to 25 from the summer of 2017.The Fort ...
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Etihad meets Italy’s movers and shakers
Etihad Global Cargo Management Company (GCMC) joined forces with Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce to host a networking event for business leaders in Parma, Italy.The companies from the Italian city, who collectively represented 3.7% of the entire Italian GDP, were joined 75 representatives from Emirati businesses.The event followed the recent ...
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Hainan to launch Brussels-Shanghai service
China’s Hainan Airlines said it would launch direct flights between Brussels and Shanghai Pudong during 2017.It made the announcement during an official visit led by Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel in which the carrier and airport signed a letter of intent.Hainan Airlines previously operated on the route from May 2010 ...
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Perishables are the commodity to watch for air cargo over the coming years
Perishables are the commodity to watch for air cargo over the coming few years while demand from the high tech industry has tailed off.Speaking at a panel discussion during Tiaca’s Air Cargo Forum in Paris, Seabury Group senior vice president Marco Bloemen explained that in 2016 the volume of laptops ...
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Turkish Airlines wins pharma CEIV accreditation
Turkish Cargo, the airfreight arm of Turkish Airlines, has been awarded IATA’s ‘Center of Excellence for Independent Validators’ (CEIV) certification for pharmaceutical logistics at its Istanbul hub.The carrier has also trained a dedicated team to preserve the integrity of the cold chain and products and will introduce a thermal dolly ...
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IAG Cargo hopes to pick up oil & gas and machinery traffic on New Orleans service
IAG Cargo is hoping its recently launched time-critical product will prove popular with shippers utilising new bellyhold capacity between New Orleans and London.Earlier today, IAG announced it would launch the first ever direct service from London to Louisiana from March 26 utilising a Boeing 787-8 aircraft with bellyhold capacity of ...
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NewsEuropean cargo monthly: Cargo boost for European carriers in September
European airlines are the latest to report a bumper month for airfreight demand in September, with Lufthansa, IAG and Finnair recording some of their biggest improvements of the year so far.The largest European cargo carrier Lufthansa saw cargo demand increase by 8.2% year on year in September to 883m revenue ...
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NewsUnited Airlines sees cargo revenues decline despite demand improvements
United Airlines saw its third-quarter cargo revenues decline compared with last year despite a double-digit increase in demand.The US airline recorded cargo revenues for the period of $224m, a 4.7% decline compared with a year earlier.Meanwhile, demand increased by 11.6% year-on-year to 714m cargo ton miles (CTM).It is the second ...
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Lufthansa Cargo and DB Schenker look to cut carbon
An environmental partnership between Lufthansa Cargo and DB Schenker has helped the two companies reduce their carbon dioxide output by around 10,000 tonnes over the first five years of the tie up.Following the success of the first five years, the two companies said they are hoping to reduce their carbon ...