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B777-300ER for China Eastern Airlines
CHINA Eastern Airlines has taken delivery of its first B777-300ER, as part of a fleet renewal programme, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.The new aircraft, which will support the airline’s growing presence in North America over the next three years, is the first of 20 it has ordered.The airline plans to ...
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Saudia Cargo appoints ECS as exclusive GSSA in India
SAUDI AIRLINES Cargo has appointed ECS Globe Air Cargo India as its sole general sales and services agent, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.“We look forward to working jointly with ECS to further develop our business in India. I am confident that together with their efforts, our clients in India will ...
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Strong growth for ACS
BROKER Air Charter Service (ACS) enjoyed a strong first half of the year with both revenue and charter numbers up across all three divisions of the company, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor. Chairman Chris Leach observes: “The figures across the board make pleasant reading. Every department – private jets, commercial ...
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Air France appeals to striking pilots
AIR-FRANCE has called on its striking pilots to return to work as the beleaguered carrier continues to haemorrhage millions of euros over its controversial low-cost carrier plans, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.In desperation, the company’s management has proposed the immediate withdrawal of the Transavia Europe project, whilst further developing Transavia ...
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Oman Air plans venture with cargo operator
Oman Air is due to announce details, by the end of October, of a new joint venture with a large freighter operator. Specifics of the deal are still unknown, but the last time the Middle Eastern airline did something similar was in March 2013 when it signed an agreement with ...
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Air France strike ends, but uncertainty still high
Air France pilots have called off their two-week strike that cost the struggling airline hundreds of millions of euros. An exact estimate on how much it damaged Air France's cargo business is not yet known, but it certainly won't have gotten off lightly.The pilot's union SNPL and the airline were ...
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Customs busts illegal pharma
A coordinated Customs operation seized 113 million illegal pharmaceutical products destined for Sub-Saharan Africa countries.According to the World Customs Organisation, most of the shipments originated in China or India and were mostly distributed in Benin, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).The 10-day Operation Biyela 2 mobilised 14 African Customs ...
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Africa: Jettainer starts managing ULDs for ECAir
Jettainer, the ULD management company, has begun supervising containers for Equatorial Congo Airlines (ECAir).The Lufthansa subsidiary announced details of its entry into the African market late last year but has this month formally started work on the ECAir contract.State-owned ECAir, located in Brazzaville, is outsourcing its ULD management after expanding ...
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SIA Cargo signs deal with Chep
Singapore Airlines (SIA) Cargo has appointed Chep Aerospace Solutions to maintain and repair its fleet of ULDs. Under the five-year contract, CHEP will provide repairs for 16,000 containers for SIA, as well as Scoot, SIA's medium- and long-haul low-cost subsidiary. Chep will expand its operations in Singapore to support the ...
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Freighters: down, but not out
The Freighters and Belly Cargo conference in Budapest last week was optimistic that the industry’s use of freighters would eventually stabilise to a new norm. However, said IAG Cargo’s Jude Winstanley, former head of freighters, the norm will still be a lot lower than the glory days 20 years ago.“There ...
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Raya rebranding completed
Raya Airways confirmed on October 2 that it had completed the process of rebranding the former Transmile Air Services business.Raya Airways was established in July last year when TAS was spun out of the Transmile Group. That restructuring process is now complete, and Raya is pressing ahead with plans to ...
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Satellite delivery successful
The first space satellite to be manufactured in Argentina has been delivered safely to a launch site in French Guyana by the Ruslan International joint venture of Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Antonov Airlines.A bespoke transport container was assembled to carry the 40 tonne payload on a An-124-100 freighter. The Arsat-1 satellite ...
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Lightweight ULDs to cut TAP’s fuel bill
Portuguese flag carrier TAP Portugal expects to save more than €2·5m in fuel costs over the next four years by replacing its 3,500 Unit Load Devices for lightweight units as part of an outsourcing deal with CHEP Aerospace Solutions announced on October 6.The Star Alliance member has agreed to transfer ...
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JAL updates cargo processing systems
The departure of flight JAL 371 from Tokyo’s Haneda airport to Kitakyushu on September 28 marked a significant step for Japan Airlines, as the carrier’s first domestic service to carry shipments processed using the Cargospot software platform from Luxembourg-based CHAMP Cargosystems SA.The cut-over of JAL’s domestic operations is the first ...
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Swissport completes disposal of its French ground handling activities
Swissport International confirmed on October 7 that it has closed the deal to dispose of its ground handling activities in France to GH Team.The sale covers activities undertaken by Swissport France, Swissport Services CDG, Servisair France and Héraclès. However, it does not include Swissport Cargo Services or Swissport Executive, which ...
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Cathay updates cargo handling software
Cathay Pacific Airways has selected Cargospot software from Luxembourg-based IT supplier CHAMP Cargosystems SA as the backbone of the airline’s new cargo IT platform, the company announced on October 8.To be known as CSS, the new platform will replace Cathay’s existing cargo management system which was developed in-house. Director Cargo ...
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One supply chain
In a highly public demonstration that regulators are on the side of the air cargo industry, The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) brought the senior officials of the International Civil Aviation Organization and the World Customs Organization on stage for the opening ceremony of the Air Cargo Forum in Seoul.Wan-su ...
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Qantas freight arm bounces back
Qantas Freight reported underlying pre-tax and interest earnings of A$54m, an improvement of A$43m and the division's best first-half result since 2006.The company stated: “International cargo markets continued to recover, accounting for A$44 million of underlying EBIT, with the China-US and US-Australia markets performing well.“The domestic market was more challenging, ...
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Bigger, safer, ‘shapier’
Hong Kong Airlines is about to become the launch customer for a container from Nordisk, developed in cooperation with Airbus, that will increase the payload on the main deck of its A330-200 freighters by more than 10 per cent as well as making the cargo more secure.Didier Lenormand, Airbus’ head ...
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Spirit of the Horse Dragon
Charter broker Air Partner has teamed up with the Ruslan International joint venture of Antonov Airlines and Volga-Dnepr Airlines to fly a gigantic mechanical dragon-horse from Nantes to Beijing, using one of the operator’s 17 Antonov 124 heavy lift aircraft. (video below)Known as Long Ma Jing Shen or ‘The Spirit ...