March 15, 2009

New routes and services

AirBaltic will fly twice-weekly between Riga, Latvia and Dushanbe, Tajikistan from 1 June using Boeing B737s. Air Europa – Spain’s…

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Pet store receives corpse not fish

A PET store in Pennsylvania, US received the corpse of an elderly man instead of an airfreight shipment of tropical…

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BAA Feb traffic down

BAA’s cargo traffic fell by 21.4 per cent in February compared to January. BASA, which operates Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Heathrow,…

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Swiss Airlines cargo down 23

SWISS International Air Lines cargo traffic fell 23 per cent in 2008. The airline saw 6.5 per cent drop in…

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JAL cuts fuel surcharges

JAPAN Airlines (JAL) is to decrease its fuel surcharge for international cargo flights departing Japan from 1 April, 2009. JAL…

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Record number of planes grounded in desert

NEW figures reveal that a record total of almost 2,300 jet airliners are now parked. 1,167 of these aircraft were…

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Çelebi bids for Indira Ghandi airport services

ÇELEBI Ground Handling has submitted bids for two Indian airport tenders. The Turkish company bid to upgrade, modernise, finance and…

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