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Cargo demand weakens at Brussels Airport as airlines reduce services
UPDATE: Brussels Airport saw cargo volumes decline in July as airlines reduced services and cancelled flights in response to weakening demand.The European airport saw total cargo volumes decline by 8.8% year on year in July to 39,689 tons. The largest decrease in percentage terms was felt by its belly cargo ...
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Japan gives go-ahead for Iberia to join airline grouping
Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has extended anti-trust immunity to include Spanish flag carrier Iberia in the cooperation between Japan Airlines, British Airways and Finnair.It will allow the four airlines to cooperate commercially on flights between Europe and Japan, including a new service between Madrid and Tokyo ...
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Good day for American in London
American Airlines Cargo shipped a record 575,000lbs (260,000kg) of freight and mail from London Heathrow (LHR) in a single day on Sunday 31 July, setting a new daily record for the station.American Airlines, which completed a merger with US Airways last year, broke its previous daily record in London in ...
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BAE looks to launch RJ100 P2F conversion programme
BAE Systems is hoping to launch a passenger-to-freighter conversion programme for the Avro RJ jetliner and is seeking customer feedback to asses market potential.The principal variant for conversion would be the RJ100 aircraft, which are now starting to come out of passenger service and will be available over the next ...
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World's largest aircraft take-off delayed
We will have to wait a little while longer before the world’s largest aircraft makes its maiden flight.Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) expected its airship Airlander 10 to take off from Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire last Sunday (August 14) but last-minute technical hitches have forced a postponement.The helium-filled Airlander 10 measures ...
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Cargojet delivers growth surge despite flat market
Canadian express freight airline Cargojet defied flat overall growth to deliver “exceptional” financial results in the second quarter of the year as its contract with Canada Post results in demand growth.Total revenues were up by C$4.1 million or 5.5%, to C$79.3 million, versus quarter two of the previous year. Gross ...
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ATSG sees Q2 revenues jump thanks to Amazon operation
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) continued to benefit from its new freighter contract with Amazon as both revenues and net earnings increased during the second quarter.The Wilmington, Ohio-based provider of medium wide-body freighter aircraft leasing saw second quarter revenues increase by 19% year on year to $176.5m, while net earnings ...
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Cargolux appoints new VP of flight operations after departure of Holt
Cargolux has appointed a new interim executive vice president of flight operations following the announcement that current incumbent Jason Holt has decided to move on to a new opportunity.The Luxembourg airline said that Claude Zehren would take over all duties from Holt with immediate effect."Zehren has been with Cargolux for ...
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Astral and Ethiopian outline African expansion plans
African cargo carriers Ethiopian Cargo and Astral Aviation have outlined their ambitious expansion plans as they look to capitalise on the growing marketplace.Speaking at the Africa Air Cargo Summit in Addis Ababa, Astral Aviation chief executive Sanjeev Gadhia said the company hoped to add new Boeing 747 freighters and B737-400F ...
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NewsLufthansa's cargo business remains in the red
Lufthansa’s cargo division recorded its fifth quarterly operating loss in a row as competition on global airfreight markets remained “intense”.The German airline group’s logistics business, which includes Lufthansa Cargo, ULD specialist Jettainer and its other investments, recorded a 16.4% year-on-year decline in second-quarter revenues to €496m.Earnings before interest and tax ...
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Olympian horses take freighter to Rio
The first group of Olympic horses has departed from London Stansted airport on a Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777F bound for Rio 2016.With 34 horses from 10 nations on board, the equine cargo worth multiple millions, was loaded into customised pallets for the almost 12-hour flight aboard.Eventing horses from Great Britain, ...
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New owner for Amerijet
Amerijet, the Miami based scheduled freighter operator, has a new owner.H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity investment firm, confirmed that it has sold its portfolio company, Amerijet Holdings, to an affiliate of ZS Fund, a middle market focused private equity firm.Amerijet operates a total fleet of ten freighters, a mix ...
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Ethiopian Cargo appoints GSSAs in Italy and France
Ethiopian Cargo has appointed Air consult and ATC Aviation Services as its new general sales and service agents (GSSA) in Italy and France effective from June 24 and July 16 respectively.ATC Aviation Services, a Germany-based GSSA, has 32 offices worldwide. The company has already been serving as a GSSA for ...
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Cargolux aircraft carry key client names
Cargolux has begun adding the name and logo of key customers to the livery of its freighter aircraft, along with a ‘Powered By’ legend.Three Cargolux Boeing 747 freighters already carry the added branding of a major customer. More client names will appear on other aircraft of the fleet in the ...
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NewsAnalysis: ASL swoops on TNT Express freighter fleet
Dublin-based aircraft lessor ASL Aviation Group has boosted its freighter fleet with the purchase of the airline operations of TNT Express for an undisclosed amount.The deal, which was part of FedEx’s €4.4bn acquisition of TNT completed in late May, will see ASL take over the fleets of TNT Airways in ...
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Qatar freighter to give Halifax seafood exports a lift
Qatar Airways Cargo will launch a weekly Wednesday B777-200 freighter service from Halifax (Canada) to its Doha hub via Zaragoza, Spain, from July 20. Much of the aircraft’s 103-tonne capacity is expected to be filled by Nova Scotia seafood.The flight is scheduled to arrive in Halifax on Wednesdays at 3:20am ...
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NewsAn-225, the world's most tweeted freighter
It was a plane-spotters dream: taking a selfie with an Antonov-225 ‘Mriya’.Hundreds of unglamorous freighter aircraft ply their daily trade with little or no attention. They are invisible to the general public who do not know or care that their must-have iPhones, the exotic fish in expensive restaurants and designer ...
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CargoLogicAir gets the keys to its first 747-8F
New UK-based carrier CargoLogicAir has taken delivery of its first Boeing 747-8 freighter at the Farnborough International Airshow.Chief executive Dmitry Grishin, received the 'keys' to the aircraft from Boeing’s vice president sales for Middle East, Russia and Central Asia, Marty Bentrott, at a ceremony on board the aircraft at the ...
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Cathay to fly a B747-8F to Portland from November
Cathay Pacific Cargo is to operate a twice-weekly scheduled Boeing 747-8 freighter service between its Hong Kong home hub and Portland, Oregon, in the US from November 3, subject to government approval.Portland — the carrier’s 18th cargo station in the Americas — will be served by a Hong Kong-Anchorage-Los Angeles-Portland-Anchorage ...
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Chongqing is sixth Chinese city for AirBridgeCargo
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added flights to leading commercial centre Chongqing to its network from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, its sixth Chinese destination.The new twice-weekly service operates on Wednesday and Friday, and will be linked with ABC's Shanghai flights returning to Moscow, complementing its frequencies and accommodating cargo flows from central ...