All Business articles – Page 77
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Lufthansa and ANA confirm Japan-Europe cargo JV
All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Germany’s Lufthansa Cargo will launch a strategic air cargo joint venture on routes between Japan and Europe.The cooperation between Japan’s largest airline and Lufthansa Cargo, one of the world’s largest air freight operators, has obtained antitrust immunity. On the passenger side, ANA and Lufthansa are ...
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Martinair Cargo MD-11 freighters axed
CONSISTENTLY poor demand following the global financial economic crisis six years ago has forced Air France-KLM to phase out its five MD-11 freighters by the summer of 2016, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The decision taken by the group’s board of directors following a strategic review, which began in March this ...
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AA and US Airways become single cargo unit from October 20
American Airlines and US Airways have completed their merger and will become one air freight organisation from October 20.The two US carriers, who have been integrating shared cargo locations for the past nine months, will transition to a single air waybill using the American Airlines prefix 001.In a letter to ...
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Qatar adds Brussels and Shanghai freighters
Qatar Airways Cargo is launching two extra freighter destinations, Brussels in Belgium and Shanghai in China.Brussels will be served four times a week by an A330F from October 1. It will fly via Entebbe to Brussels on Wednesdays and Sundays and via Nairobi to Brussels on Mondays and Fridays.A three-times ...
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Fraport’s airfreight rises
FRANKFURT AIRPORT is celebrating a cargo uptick after its throughput (airfreight and airmail) rose by 3.2 per cent to 179,555 tonnes in August – up 3.2 per cent compared with the same month last year, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.Aircraft movements also climbed by 0.6 per cent to 42,684 takeoffs ...
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ABC Basel service targets pharma
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest air cargo carrier, is launching a weekly Basel-Moscow Sheremetyevo B747 freighter service to capiltalise on the Swiss city’s thriving healthcare industry, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.Basel has one of the highest concentrations of successful life-sciences businesses in the world, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical technology ...
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Is Cargolux’s unique culture strong enough?
HOW do you measure the value of esprit de corps within a company? Since it is an intangible by-product of work satisfaction and team commitment, and its existence cannot be measured on a spreadsheet, it therefore cannot be proven to have any direct correlation with an entity’s overall performance.Or can ...
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A joint vision
LUFTHANSA CARGO'S joint venture with ANA brings together an impressive fleet of freighters and a formidable array of global bellyhold capacity, writes Roger Hailey, Air Cargo News editor.The joint venture was not a surprise - it has been the subject of debate for many months - but the business rationale ...
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Beluga birthday
The Airbus Beluga freighter is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its first flight.The “white whale” freighter replaced the ageing Super Guppy transporters from 1995 in order to supply plane maker Airbus’ final assembly lines in Toulouse and Hamburg.Today, more than sixty flights are performed each week between eleven sites, carrying ...
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AF-KLM cargo return to breakeven by 2017
Air France-KLM has unveiled a group-wide Perform 2020 strategic plan that includes a slimmed down cargo business returning to operating breakeven by 2017.The Franco-Dutch carrier has already announced the phase out of five MD-11 freighters belonging to Dutch subsidiary Martinair by the summer of 2016.AF-KLM Martinair’s freighter fleet will be ...
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Volvo renews TNT international delivery contract
Swedish truck and bus maker Volvo has renewed a three-year contract with express operator TNT for ‘inbound to production’ and aftermarket delivery services in Europe.TNT will continue to handle Volvo’s European emergency production movements.TNT collects automotive components and parts from more than 800 different suppliers in Europe and delivers them ...
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Robust August for Cathay
STRONG demand out of Hong Kong and mainland China boosted Cathay Pacific Cargo’s performance in August, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The airline and its sister company Dragonair carried 146,955 tonnes of cargo and mail in August, an increase of 19.7 per cent in comparison with the same period last year.The ...
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AA and USAir countdown to cargo merger
American Airlines and US Airways are counting down the days to a complete cargo merger on October 20, the date when the two carriers become one for freight bookings.From then on, customers will start using the same airwaybill to access an integrated airline network that has surprisingly little overlap, just ...
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Ruslan's 'reelly' urgent cargo
Ruslan International has moved 75 tonnes of urgent oil and gas industry coil-tubing equipment from London Stansted to Adelaide by AN-124.The company, which manages 17 giant AN-124 freighter aircraft for its partners Antonov Airlines and Volga Dnepr Group, undertook the charter to support a drilling programme in the Coober Pedy ...
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Flying pharma
A YEAR AGO this month, senior air cargo executives drawn from leading companies operating across the supply chain met in Lisbon, Portugal, to discuss the urgent issues facing cool chain transportation.The picture painted by analysts Seabury was bleak, revealing the industry was in danger of losing more potential air cargo ...
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Cockpit iPad for Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo is introducing an iPad-based Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) packed with navigation maps and operating manuals for cockpit use by pilots.“Important documents will be just a finger-swipe away,” said the German all-cargo carrier.“The iPad is the ideal basis for modern communication with the pilots and digital processes in the ...
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Ground handling warning
THE GROUND handling industry must jettison masses of unnecessary complexity if it truly wants to make seismic changes to the way it operates, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.Integrating and streamlining processes to cut transit times by 48 hours, such as the paper-heavy Service Level Agreement (SLA); communicating better with customers ...
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Swiss to terminate collective labour agreement with Aeropers
SWISS International Air Lines is to terminate its current collective labour agreement (CLA) with the Aeropers pilots’ staff association because of threats of legal action against the carrier and ‘irreconcilable differences’ over key issues following the incorporation of IPG pilots’ association in a new agreement, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The ...
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IAG converts eight A330-200 options into firm orders
THE IAG GROUP has decided to convert eight A330-200 aircraft options into firm orders for its partner airline Iberia, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The aircraft will be delivered to Spain’s flag carrier by the end of 2015.“We are just delighted that Iberia has reconfirmed its confidence in the A330, and ...
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AF-KLM revises low-cost carrier bid amid pilots’ strike tempest
OVER THE last seven days Air France chiefs have been squaring up to their furious pilots determined not to be the first to blink, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The beleaguered French carrier has admitted the strike has been decimating is funds to the tune of €20 million a day.A statement ...