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Chapman Freeborn and Airbroker announce new partnership
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has launched a new strategic partnership with Oslo-based Airbroker to further enhance both companies’ offerings in the international air charter market.The agreement sees Chapman Freeborn become the exclusive partner for all of Airbroker’s charter requirements outside of its home market of Norway.“The new agreement has been established ...
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ACS helps out on world record attempt
Air Charter Service helped a team complete ‘Cape to Cape 2.0’, a world record attempt driving from the southernmost point in South Africa to the northernmost in Norway.With Syria being out of the question to travel through, the team, driving a VW Touareg from Cape Agulhas to Nordkapp, was given ...
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Special report: Fast thinking will get air cargo aid to where it’s needed
Rapid decision making by aid agencies and the airfreight industry is the key to getting aid cargo to the people that need it during humanitarian crises.“Airports can get congested quite quickly and we need to ask how we can make faster and smarter decisions,” said David Quinn, logistics movement officer ...
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ATSG revenue increase in third quarter
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the medium wide-body freighter aircraft lessor, saw third quarter 2015 revenues increase 3% to $142.3m, including a 6% increase in freighter aircraft leasing revenues.Excluding revenues from reimbursements, third-quarter 2015 revenues increased 6% for the US-based lessor.Joe Hete, president and chief executive of ATSG, said: “We ...
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ACS helps helicopters fly in for a refit
Air Charter Service transported two Mil Mi-8 MTV helicopters from Africa into Europe for a major refit.Justin Lancaster, commercial director at ACS, explained: “We flew the helicopters in on an Ilyushin IL-76 to Europe where they will be renovated. This type of helicopter is used by almost 70 different nations’ ...
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WFS completes Frankfurt cargo handler deal
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has completed its acquisition of a 51% shareholding in Fraport Cargo Services (FCS) for airfreight handling at Frankfurt Airport, the 2014 number one European airfreight hub at 2.2m tonnes.Air cargo handler WFS, with annual revenues of €750m, signed an agreement with FCS parent Fraport in July ...
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ACP Worldwide appointed as Air China GSA in South Africa
Air China has chosen ACP Worldwide as its South African cargo GSA and it will sell capacity on the airline’s first ever non-stop, direct flight between China and Africa.The first inbound flight of the new service, which will operate between Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport and Beijing three times a ...
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AEI wins conversion order for 15 Boeing 737s
US passenger to freighter conversion specialist Aeronautical Engineers Inc. (AEI) has won a firm order from Aviation Capital Group (ACG) for 15 Boeing 737-800SF type aircraft, with an option for 15 more.Terms were not disclosed.AEI will commence the conformity B737-800SF modification in 2016 and expects to receive FAA Supplemental Type ...
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Norwegian Cargo signs up Jan de Rijk for European RFS
Fast-expanding Norwegian Cargo has granted a new road feeder service contract to Jan de Rijk Logistics, extending the airline’s delivery network to more than 50 airports around Europe.The deal will see Jan de Rijk provide a daily road feeder operation for the low-cost carrier’s services from the US to London ...
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Athens in the swim with dolphins cargo
Athens International Airport played host to a pod of three dolphins flying out to Lithuania.A two year old female and two mature females were flown to Siauliai airport under the care of Goldair Handling.The valuable cargo was transported from Athens by the Lithuanian Air Force using an Alenia C-27j Spartan ...
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ACMI market set to grow as carriers seek flexibility
The ACMI (wet-lease) aircraft market will continue to grow in future because of carriers’ need for flexibility, while the number of wet-lease joint ventures and long-term relationships will also continue to increase.Speaking at Air Cargo News’ Freighters and Bellyhold Conference in Abu Dhabi, Atlas Air Worldwide executive vice president and ...
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Charter brokers evolve to face new threats
Traditional cargo charter brokers are developing their services as they face competition from new market entrants and customers increasingly gain direct access to airlines.Speaking at the Freighters and Belly Cargo Conference in Abu Dhabi, Air Charter Service (ACS) group commercial director Justin Lancaster highlighted some the challenges faced by traditional ...
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Africa: Home-grown talent boosts all-cargo sector
To date, there have been few African freighter operators on the continent, and almost no all-cargo carriers. That has started to change with the arrival of Astral Aviation in Kenya and Khuphuka Kings Airways in South Africa.Khuphuka, operating out of Durban King Shaka airport, started cargo services in early 2014 ...
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ACS opens in Miami
Air Charter Service has opened its doors in Miami - its fifth office in North America after Los Angeles, Houston, New York and Toronto.President of ACS North America, , Richard Thompson, explained: “We have a really strong customer base in Florida and decided that now was the right time to ...
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Qatar Cargo teams up with UK actress for Nepal aid flight
Qatar Airways Cargo stepped in to transport 5.3 tonnes of aid collected by several charities supported by British actress Joanna Lumley to earthquake victims in Nepal.The aid was collected by several of the Gurkha charities which Joanna Lumley supports in the UK, but they had no means of transporting the ...
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Swissport announces Mexican partnership
Swissport International and AGN Aviation have announced a new partnership covering the Mexican market that will see the two firms jointly provide ground handling services.The new merged company will provide a complete portfolio of ground handling services (passenger and ramp handling) and will operate at 28 stations, the biggest of ...
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Jettainer is on the button with relaunched ULD management software
Jettainer has relaunched its in-house IT solution, JettWare.New functions and a modernised user interface for JettWare 2.0 help pinpoint both serviceable and unserviceable units at airports and provide information “in a much clearer, intuitive way” said the outsourced ULD management specialist.Revised station overview screens show all the planned movements of ...
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On board courier service flying at ACS
Air Charter Service's on board courier (OBC) department, launched in the Spring, is currently averaging a booking every twelve hours and is already 40% ahead of budget.Oliver Weigelt, the company’s global time critical manager, commented: “We are doing 60-70 jobs a month and we’re expecting to do even more in ...
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American Airlines Cargo to offer temperature controlled ULD leasing to customers
American Airlines Cargo has announced it will begin leading its temperature controlled ULD to customers.From November 1, the US airline will make its CSafe Global RKN ULD, which is able to maintain a precise temperature of four to 25 degrees Celsius, available for lease to customers.It said the move would ...
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Older ULDs can pose performance risk, warns CSafe White Paper
Temperature-controlled container manufacturer and supplier CSafe Global has released a white paper highlighting the problems and risk associated with using poorly maintained container stock.The paper, entitled “Maintenance of active ULDs and its positive impact on operational performance and longevity" is authored by Jonathan Neeld, CSafe director of certification & regulatory ...