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NewsEuropean monthly: A new hope as European airlines return to growth
Europe’s major cargo carriers have seen cargo volumes return to growth in April after a difficult start to the year.All four major European airlines monitored in the Air Cargo News monthly spotlight recorded a year on year increase in demand in April for the first time since March 2014.It follows ...
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IAG's double-digit Middle East capacity expansion
IAG Cargo is hoping economic growth in Bahrain and the Qatar 2022 football world cup project will help fill a double-digit expansion of capacity on its Middle East services.The airline has announced that from winter 2016, it will separate its current Abu Dhabi and Muscat service into two flights and ...
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Saudia Cargo and Virgin Atlantic Cargo to expand partnership in the US
Saudi Airlines Cargo is hoping to expand its presence in the US through a new partnership with Virgin Atlantic Cargo.The deal will see Saudia Cargo offer its customers space on Virgin Atlantic Airlines flights in the US, particularly for cargo that requires special attention, such as flowers, fruit and seafood.Saudia ...
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Terror attacks hit Brussels Airlines cargo Q1 results
Brussels Airlines says its cargo traffic in March was sharply down, due to the terrorist attacks on its home airport on March 22.The Lufthansa Group subsidiary said that cargo traffic was largely interrupted after that date and that the total of 2,609 tonnes reflected a decrease of 21% compared with ...
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Air France KLM achieves IATA pharma certification
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has achieved IATA pharma certification for four areas of its business and claims that customers are increasingly demanding the credential before they will engage with airlines.The Franco-Dutch airline group achieved IATA Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators Pharma (CEIV) certification in February this year.The four ...
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United Cargo to begin accepting new temperature controlled container
United Cargo has begun accepting the Envirotainer RAP e2 temperature-controlled container.United can now transport the entire suite of Envirotainer’s active units on the airline’s network of 59 TempControl-certified handling locations.The RAP e2 does not require dry ice or battery replacement – it uses rechargeable batteries to power its electric heating ...
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Another successful Air Cargo News Cargo Airline of the Year Awards
American Airlines was voted Cargo Airline of the Year 2016 in a night of airfreight industry celebrations, with 14 winners taking a bow in London at a gala event.The airfreight industry Oscars, now in their 33rd year, were presented by TV celebrity Gyles Brandreth in front of an audience of ...
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Swiss WorldCargo signs deal to offer new range of temperature controlled containers
Swiss WorldCargo will offer a new range of temperature controlled containers after signing a deal to offer va-Q-tec’s devices directly to its customers.va-Q-tec offers five “passive” hard shell container sizes, taking up to two pallets inside, that can offer temperature ranges from -70°C to +25°C.Swiss head of cargo Ashwin Bhat ...
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Indian airlines have fines for alleged cargo cartel set aside
Jet Airways, SpiceJet and IndiGo have been given the opportunity to have fines levied against them by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for an alleged air cargo cartel overturned.Late last year, Jet Airways was fined R1.5bn, IndiGo received a R637.4m penalty and SpiceJet was hit with a R424.8m fine ...
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Call for stricter drone regulations after incident near Heathrow
Experts are calling for stricter drone regulations after one of the devices is believed to have hit an aircraft approaching Heathrow airport.On Sunday afternoon the front of a British Airways Airbus-320 passenger aircraft approaching Heathrow is believed to have hit by a drone, sparking a police investigation.The incident was immediately ...
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Saudia to add bellyhold links
Saudia will add bellyhold cargo services to new destinations Munich and Maldives in the coming weeks, with services to Ankara starting in the last quarter of 2016.Passenger bellyhold space of up to 30 tonnes will be available on Boeing 777 and Airbus A320/A330 passenger aircraft serving the new routes, said ...
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NewsDelta sees first quarter air cargo revenues slide
Delta Air Lines continued to see cargo volumes and revenues decline during the first quarter of the year.The US airline suffered a 25.3% year-on-year decline in cargo revenues to $162m on the back of a 13.3% drop in volumes to 475m cargo ton miles.Although Delta does not provide commentary on ...
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NewsEuropean cargo carriers monthly: cargo declines at Lufthansa and Air France
IAG Cargo and Finnair both managed to record air cargo demand increases during the first quarter of the year while Air France-KLM and Lufthansa suffered declines.While all four carriers recorded a spike in demand during March, compared with February, the level of increase was weaker than in previous years, although ...
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Qatar adds express option
Qatar Airways Cargo has added a time-critical airport-to-airport product to its portfolio. QR Express offers high boarding priority and rapid handling, along with short and flexible close-outs, dedicated ramp transfer and priority unloading at final destination with a 90-minute retrieval time.Chief officer cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann said the new service was ...
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Boeing holds Tehran talks
US plane-maker Boeing says it has launched preliminary discussions with Iranian airlines about possible aircraft sales. It followed the as yet unconfonfirmed agreement announced by rival builder Airbus in January that it had agreed to sell 118 aircraft worth $27 billion to Iran.Boeing said no firm deal had been made ...
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NewsAirfreight demand and load factors take a tumble in February
Air cargo demand and load factors slipped in February but figures are skewed by strikes at US seaports last year and the date of the Chinese New Year.The latest IATA figures show that freight tonne kms (FTKs) slipped by 5.6% year on year in February while capacity was up by ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Pegasus and Air India place orders in March
Each month Air Cargo News analyses the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.Pegasus Airlines orders five 737sTurkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines and Boeing have finalised an order for five Next-Generation Boeing 737-800s in a deal valued at approximately $505m based on expected list prices at delivery.Pegasus Airlines and its ...
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Air China Cargo sees yields tumble in 2015
Air China Cargo saw yields and load factors come under pressure last year but managed to maintain profitability.The cargo arm of Air China saw demand increase by 15.2% last year, one of the highest growth rates in the industry, to 6.6bn revenue freight tonne km (RFTK), while capacity was up ...
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NewsAsian air cargo carriers record weak Chinese New Year period
Asian airlines saw airfreight demand decline in February after a weak Chinese New Year period and comparisons were affected by a boost in demand last year due to port strikes in the US.The latest airline data shows that all six Asian airlines monitored in Air Cargo News’ monthly report saw ...
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Swiss WorldCargo to focus on developing services after a flat start to the year
Swiss WorldCargo hopes to further enhance its services for the pharmaceutical and e-commerce industries as it faces up to another year of flat growth for the air cargo industry in 2016.Head of cargo at Swiss Ashwin Bhat said 2015 was not a good year for the airline’s cargo division in ...