All Freighter Operator articles – Page 184
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Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings fall 40% in 2015
Lufthansa Cargo’s earnings contribution to the parent group airline declined 40% to €74m in full year 2015 as seasonal “sizeable overcapacities” in the airfreight market hit load factors and yields.In addition to the excess capacity from the beginning of the summer onwards, cargo earnings were also depressed by the strike ...
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Cathay announces fall in February cargo volumes
Cathay Pacific and sister carrier Dragonair moved a total of 117,299 tonnes of cargo and mail in February, a 10.1% fall on the same month of last year. With capacity, as measured in available cargo/mail tonne kilometres, rising by 1.1%, and the cargo and mail revenue tonne kilometres (RTKs) figure ...
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Silk Way West opts for Descartes’ Global Air Messaging Gateway
Silk Way West Airlines, part of the Baku, Azerbaijan-headquartered freighter operator Silk Way Group, has begun using Descartes’ cloud-based Global Air Messaging Gateway. The system will help the carrier achieve “higher standards of service and minimise costs by expanding and automating air cargo communication processes such as the electronic airway ...
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IAG Cargo handles ‘The Man’
IAG Cargo, the freight wing of the Anglo-Spanish carrier concern, has flown a collection of 18 portraits of David Beckham for a Hong Kong-based, VIP auction preview of ‘David Beckham: the Man’, in support of 7: The David Beckham UNICEF Fund and Positive View Foundation.The event forms part of a ...
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Titan turns to Ancra for B767BDSF cargo loading systems
Titan Aviation, one of the subsidiaries of New York-based freighter operator Atlas Air Worldwide, has chosen Ancra International to supply the cargo loading systems for the latest additions to its freighter fleet.Ancra delivered two such systems to the leasing concern in 2015, and is delivering more this year for the ...
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Etihad chief points the way
Giving the opening address to more than 1,200 delegates attending the World Cargo Alliance (WCA) Conference held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition between 10-13 March, Etihad Airways president and CEO James Hogan offered his thoughts on the past successes and future direction of the UAE flag-carrier’s freight operations.Etihad Cargo ...
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Lufthansa Cargo adds ground link to flower hub
German freight carrier Lufthansa Cargo has established a new direct trucking connection to its home hub of Frankfurt International Airport from Aalsmeer, the Dutch town which lies to the south of Amsterdam, close to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Schiphol, and which is home to the world’s biggest flower auction. Aalsmeer handles ...
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Ethiopian Airlines relaunches cargo flights at Brussels Airport
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo is returning to Brussels Airport with 12 direct daytime freighter flights a week out of the Belgian airfreight hub, bound for Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou.In late 2015, the African combination carrier was forced to switch services to Maastricht-Aachen after it was not able to obtain ...
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Cargolux to take a flexible approach to airfreight capacity deployment
Cargolux will look to the charter market and try to be as flexible as possible with its fleet as it looks to mitigate current market conditions.Cargolux executive vice president sales & marketing Niek van der Weide told Air Cargo News that he expected market overcapacity and yield pressure to remain ...
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Lufthansa Cargo reveals summer freighter schedule with six destinations added to line-up
Lufthansa Cargo has revealed its summer airfreight schedule with Moscow, Ashgabat, Baku, Doha, Seattle and Los Angeles added to its service offering.The German carrier said that since the start of March, an MD-11 freighter had been operating on a rotation of Frankfurt, Domodedovo, an existing destination, Moscow, Ashgabat and Baku.It ...
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Chapman Freeborn and RUS Aviation announce Asia cargo agreement
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and Sharjah-based RUS Aviation have announced an exclusive cargo sales agreement to provide airfreight solutions from Hong Kong to the Middle East and surrounding markets.Effective this month, Chapman Freeborn will sell per-kilo shipments from Hong Kong to the UAE, with onward connections via RUS Aviation’s regional network ...
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Lithium-ion shipments on freighters: More pilots speak up on safety concerns
The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) said that “more needs to be done” to address the safety of lithium-ion battery shipments on cargo aircraft.While supporting the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) decision to prohibit lithium-ion batteries as freight on passenger aircraft, IFALPA added: “Both lithium-ion and lithium-metal ...
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Singapore's Changi offers S$14m support package for cargo partners
Singapore's Changi Airport Group (CAG) has announced a S$14m package of “support measures” for its cargo partners, which will provide the sector with “cost relief against the backdrop of a challenging outlook for the global airfreight industry”.The measures, which include a one-time Special Assistance Package (SAP) for cargo agents and ...
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US lessor ATSG reports "outstanding" 2015
US-based Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), a lessor of mid-size freighters, saw fourth quarter 2015 revenues increase 15% to $181.6m and by 5% to $619.3m for the full year.Joe Hete, president and chief executive of ATSG, said: “2015 was an outstanding year for ATSG, as our principal midsize freighter leasing ...
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Cathay cargo revenues fall 9% in 2015
Cathay Pacific’s group cargo revenue fell 9% in full year 2015 to HK$23.1bn, reflecting a reduction in fuel surcharges due to lower fuel prices.The Hong Kong-based combination carrier said: “Air cargo demand, which came under pressure during the second quarter of the year, remained weak in the second half.”Cargo capacity ...
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Could Brussels Airport win back Ethiopian Cargo?
Brussels Airport has revealed that it is hoping to lure back Ethiopian Cargo’s freighter services after the airline was was forced to move to Dutch hub Maastricht-Aachen in November because of traffic rights.In its monthly traffic update, the Belgian airport revealed that thanks to the amendment of a bilateral agreement ...
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NewsCargojet sees revenues soar but losses deepen
Cargojet’s revenues saw double-digit growth in 2015 thanks to its Canada Post contract win, but this wasn’t enough to stop the airline recording a full-year loss.The Canadian airline recorded a 50.2% year-on-year increase in 2015 revenues to C$289m, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda) jumped by 552.8% ...
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NewsAir cargo demand continues to grow but yields to remain under pressure
Airfreight demand continued to show an improvement in January, but is wasn’t enough to stop load factors declining and therefore yields are likely to remain under pressure.The latest figures from IATA show that demand in January increased by 2.7% year on year, which continues the improvements witnessed towards the end ...
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Air France KLM to roll out new temp-controlled transporters in Mexico and LA
Air France KLM will roll out its new airside temperature-controlled transporters in Los Angeles and Mexico.The Franco-Dutch airline has developed the new Kold Kart transporters to try and solve the issue of temperature fluctuations during ramp handling operations.Forwarders and shippers have long complained that their sensitive pharmaceutical shipments face temperature ...
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Volga-Dnepr performs another spacecraft component transport
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has transported another item that will be used as part of the ExoMars mission organised jointly by the European Space Agency and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.The Russian airline transported a 16-ton Breeze-M booster from Moscow to Baikonur on an An-124 freighter in preparation for the space vehicles’ ...