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Liege opens first class lounge for four-legged VIPs
Liege Airport has officially opened a ‘Horse Inn’ for travelling equines, aiming to tap into growing demand for purpose-built resting and loading areas.The €2.6m facility will cater for all horses in transit at the Belgian gateway, whether by air or road.Liege Airport is also sponsoring top Belgian show jumper and ...
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Parma to be Etihad cargo hub
Etihad Airways has signed an exclusive agreement to develop cargo traffic at Parma airport in central Italy.The deal initially includes setting a transit centre at Parma Giuseppe Verdi to receive cargo for forwarding to Milan Malpensa Airport for onward transport.The new hub will feed traffic to and from flights operated ...
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UK forwarders latest to urge action on runway decision
UK forwarder association the British International Freight Association (BIFA) has backed a Transport Committee report urging the government to make a decision over airport expansion.BIFA director general Robert Keen said that the 1,500 companies within BIFA share the Transport Committee’s belief that the delay risks damaging UK economic growth by ...
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China to invest billions in aviation
China is to invest 77 billion yuan ($11.9 billion) in aviation infrastructure this year, according to reports by the official Xinhua news agency.The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said the investment would focus initially at 11 new airport construction projects along with 52 upgrades to existing facilities.Part of the ...
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Freight Transport Association backs Heathrow expansion call
The UK’s Freight Transport Association (FTA) says that a call by the Transport Committee to stop putting off the decision to expand Heathrow Airport echoes a request it made 12 months ago.In a report published today, the committee backed expansion at Heathrow, following on from a similar call by the ...
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Mixed first quarter fortunes for Frankfurt
Frankfurt airport operator Fraport said it had mixed financial results in a challenging business environment in its interim report for the first quarter of 2016.With passenger traffic still growing - up 3.3% year-on-year, Fraport achieved higher revenue from airport and infrastructure charges as well as from aircraft handling, but this ...
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Transport committee backs Heathrow expansion and urges UK government to avoid further delays
The UK transport committee has backed the expansion of Heathrow airport and warned that any further delays in making a decision could result in lost growth.A Transport Select Committee today issued a report on its investigation into airport expansion in the UK.The committee backed expansion at Heathrow, following on from ...
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UPS hits earnings record in first quarter
UPS earnings per share jumped 13% in the first quarter of 2016, with growth across all main segments of its business. US domestic and international small packages drove the US-based express logistics firm to a record first quarter, with international operating profit up 15% to $574 million.Total revenue was up ...
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Green light for Hong Kong third runway work
Hong Kong Airport Authority has gained statutory approval for reclamation work that will allow construction of a third runway to go ahead. The authority said it would now proceed with the detailed design for the third runway and also start procurement of construction contracts for the reclamation works at the ...
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Brussels continues recovery process
On May 2, Brussels Airport will introduce a new flight schedule. According to a statement from the gateway, “the number of passengers per flight is rising faster than expected, so a new flight schedule has been drawn up for all passengers to leave in complete safety and comfort”.The airport operator ...
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Delta renews Atlanta lease agreement
Kasim Reed, mayor of the City of Atlanta, and Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, have inked a 20-year Airport Use and Lease Agreement.The new lease, which goes into effect on 1 July, will keep Delta’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta until at least 2036. It replaces the previous agreement ...
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Strikes hit German airfreight
Lufthansa Cargo is warning that a public sector strike could disrupt operations at key Germany airports today (Wednesday 27 April).The ver.di trade union called a strike starting at 00.01 today that could affect ground handling and some airport fire services at Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund and Hanover-Langenhagen airports.The carrier ...
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Cargo still on the up through Dubai
Dubai International Airport (DXB) handled 217,201 tonnes of freight in March 2016, up a marginal 0.1% from the 216,879 tonnes that passed through the gateway in the same month of last year.Over the course of the first quarter of 2016, freight traffic through Dubai International rose by 3.4% year-on-year to ...
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Frankfurt aims to be first for pharma
Frankfurt is becoming Europe´s largest certified pharmaceutical hub, says the Germany gateway’s Air Cargo Community. With the airport’s Perishable Center and Bolloré Logistics Germany already having completed certification under IATA’s (Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators) scheme, a further nine companies have also started the nine-month process. They include handlers ...
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PACTL marches on
Shanghai Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL) says it has had its strongest-ever March and first-quarter figures. With 142,297 tonnes of air cargo, traffic increased 6.8% year-on-year for the month and the quarterly figure grew 1.5% to 367,791 tonnes.Imports increased by 1.4% year-on-year to 157,270 tonnes during the first three ...
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Volga-Dnepr and Sheremetyevo Airport announce deal to develop cargo facilities
Volga-Dnepr Group and Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport have signed an agreement that will see them enhance cargo infrastructure at the airport and develop relationships with other airports.The two partners said the co-operation would join the forces of the airport and the airline in the areas influencing development of air cargo ...
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Brussels Airport sees official launch of Air Cargo Belgium
Air Cargo Belgium (ACB), the new air cargo community organisation at Brussels airport, had its official launch this week.The new organisation, whose formation was announced in December last year, groups all companies at BRUcargo, the airport’s airfreight cluster, as well as related stakeholders or official organisations.Said BRUCargo: “Traditionally, there have ...
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Speculation grows around Amazon interest in Frankfurt-Hahn airport
Germany's up for sale Frankfurt-Hahn airport (HHN) is at the centre of industry rumours that e-tailer Amazon is considering taking a stake in the European cargo hub.A spokesperson for the airport said: "We cannot confirm that this speculation around Amazon/HHN is true."Loss-making Frankfurt-Hahn has been subject to a tender process ...
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Hong Kong cargo rise in March but Q1 still down 3.5%
Hong Kong, the world’s number one air cargo hub, experienced “mild growth” of 1.1% year on year in March to 398,000 tonnes but registered a first quarter 3.5% throughput decline over 2015 to 987,000 tonnes.The growth in cargo throughput in March was primarily due to a 5% growth in exports ...
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Airport figures the latest to point to weak start to the year for airfreight
Airports Council International (ACI) traffic data for February is the latest information to point towards a difficult start to the year, although the organisation admits figures for the month were skewed by the timing of the Chinese New Year.ACI figures for February show that total airfreight traffic at airports declined ...