BRITISH Airways World Cargo has signed a general sales agent (GSA) agreement with Tampa Cargo. Effective 18 May, this business…
April 2009
LAN to expand fleet
19 / 04 / 2009
CHILE’S LAN Airlines is to invest US$1.4 billion in expanding its fleet to 113 planes between 2009 and 2011. Following…
Cathy Pacific staff made to take unpaid leave
16 / 04 / 2009
CATHAY Pacific’s troubles continue with news that it has asked its 17,000 staff to take up to a month of…
Emirates take off now an accident
16 / 04 / 2009
AUSTRALIAN investigators have upgraded the Emirates near crash in Melbourne last month from ‘incident’ to ‘accident’. On 20 March, the…
Lufthansa Cargo expands activities in Africa
16 / 04 / 2009
LUFTHANSA Cargo is offering seven new destinations in Africa in cooperation with the Kenyan cargo carrier Astral Aviation. Under the…
Airport update
16 / 04 / 2009
KOLKATA (Calcutta) airport’s international cargo section received an anonymous phone call warning of a bomb last month. Security evacuated the…
Air France-KLM to cut 3000 jobs
16 / 04 / 2009
AIR France-KLM has confirmed that it is to cut between 2,500 and 3,000 jobs by March 2011. To avoid mandatory…
IATA and IAC sign safety deal
16 / 04 / 2009
THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) has signed an agreement with the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC, also known by its…
EU bans all Benin carriers
16 / 04 / 2009
ALL airlines based in Benin, six from Kazakhstan, one Thai and one Ukrainian have been banned form flying in EU…
Delta most late US carrier
15 / 04 / 2009
DELTA Airlines has been highlighted by the US Department of Transportation (DoT) as the most persistently late US carrier. Performance…
FedEx cuts fleet by 14
15 / 04 / 2009
FEDEX is to scrap 14 of its aircraft in the face of continuing decline in demand. Ten A310-200s and four…
Cathay Pacific results down
15 / 04 / 2009
CATHAY Pacific Airways has posted its March results, which show a continuing decline. Cathay Pacific and Dragonair combined carried 129,628…
Obituary Terry Munday
15 / 04 / 2009
IT is with great sadness that the directors and staff at Anglia Forwarding announce the death of Terry Munday. Terry…
China Southern delays A380s and 787s
15 / 04 / 2009
CHINA Southern Airlines is to delay delivery of 13 787s and five A380s in a bid to save US$1 billion….
Six dead in Indonesia cargo crash
14 / 04 / 2009
SIX people were killed in a cargo plane crash in Indonesia last week. The Aviastar Mandiri BAe 146-300 aircraft was…
Lufthansa Cargo March traffic falls
14 / 04 / 2009
LUFTHANSA Cargo’s March freight traffic fell 19.9 per cent year-on-year, from 123,000 tonnes to 154,000. Despite the carrier making a…
Boeing cuts 777 production
14 / 04 / 2009
BOEING will slash production of its 777 wide-body aircraft next year by nearly a third. The aircraft manufacturer attributed the…
Hactl figures down but stable
14 / 04 / 2009
HACTL’s (Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited) March traffic figures showed a decline of 21.1 per cent compared to last…
Three more fined for cargo fixing
14 / 04 / 2009
ONGOING investigations into cargo price fixing in the US have forced three more carriers to plead guilty. Cargolux (Luxembourg), Nippon…
Four arrested for Mumbai cargo theft
14 / 04 / 2009
FOUR ground handlers at Mumbai International Airport have been arrested for stealing cargo. The four worked for the ground-handling company…
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