December 2008

BA World Cargo cuts fuel surcharge

BRITISH Airways World Cargo has announced a reduction to its fuel surcharge. The surcharge will be £0.40/US$0.60/€0.60, with effect from…

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US looks into American and BA alliance

US regulators are querying the proposed American Airlines (AA) and British Airways (BA) alliance. While the four-way partnership deal between…

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Airlines hid documents from investigation

NEW Zealand’s competition regulator is charging three airlines in its investigation of the air cargo price-fixing cartel of withholding evidence….

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AirBridgeCargo see strong growth

RUSSIAN air carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), has reported a 55 per cent increase in year-on-year sales for the first 11…

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Volga-Dnepr ISO certified

THE Russian Register Certification Association has renewed the ISO 9001 certificate of conformity of Volga-Dnepr Airlines for another three years,…

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FedEx delays 777 delivery

FEDEX has postponed the delivery of its first of 15 new Boeing 777s by up to 17 months. This is…

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Aeroflot pulls out of S7 merger

AEROFLOT has withdrawn its proposed merger with S7, according to Aeroflot chief financial officer Mikhail Poluboyarinov. Poluboyarinov was reporting on…

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Singapore Airlines denies cartel charges

AUSTRALIA’S Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has turned its sights on Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA Cargo) for its part in…

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PWC pulls out of military Y8-F600

CHINA’S new Shaanxi Y8-F600 commercial freighter has been put on hold due to missing engine control software from Pratt &…

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Fokker freighters arrive in Colorado

THE first of an order for five Fokker50Freighter conversions was delivered to MiniLiner of Bergamo, Italy at Centennial Airport, Denver,…

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China slashes fuel price

CHINA will cut fuel surcharges by as much as 75 percent from 25 December, but only on domestic flights. The…

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Delta and V Australia to break duopoly

UNITED and Qantas’ long-held duopoly on the Los Angeles-Sydney route will be broken next year. Sir Richard Branson’s new V…

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EU and Israel cut aviation red tape

FOLLOWING the EU’s and Canada’s signing to remove restrictions on aviation between themselves now Israel and the EU have done…

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Future scary says Cathay chief

CATHAY Pacific will have a difficult 2009 according to its chief executive. In its in-house magazine, Tony Tyler said that…

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Atlas and Polar crew join union

BY a more than two to one margin, nearly 900 crewmembers at Atlas Air Inc and Polar Air Cargo Worldwide,…

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Imperial backs out of aviation

IMPERIAL Holdings has sold its aviation division for R541.6-million (US$56 million). Imperial says that it is withdrawing from all non-core…

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Qantas fined for fuel-surcharge cartel

AUSTRALIA’S Federal Court has fined Qantas A$20 million (US$13.6 million) for price fixing of fuel surcharges. This is only the…

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Hungary airport strike goes on

HUNGARY’S main international airport is still suffering under a strike of its civil aviation workers. Staff went on strike when…

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LH dumps World Airways for Jade

LUFTHANSA Cargo is reducing freighter capacities, due to falling demand, by around 10 per cent on 1 January, 2009. In…

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Hajj boosts Abu Dhabi traffic

ABU Dhabi International Airport’s growth rates have so far bucked worldwide industry trends of declining traffic. November saw an 11.6…

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