QANTAS Airways has cut its profit forecast by more than half, which will force it to cut five per cent…
April 2009
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…
New managers for Etihad
08 / 04 / 2009
ETIHAD Crystal Cargo has appointed three new sales managers. Abdulla Al Shawoosh, cargo sales manager for Abu Dhabi and Al…
Turkish plane lands at wrong airport
08 / 04 / 2009
A TURKISH Airlines 737-800 landed at the wrong airport in Tbilisi, Georgia. Flying from Istanbul, Turkey the plane landed at…
Pegasus Cargo takes wing
08 / 04 / 2009
THREE months in and Pegasus Cargo is firmly establishing itself in Europe’s airfreight market. Operating from its Sabiha Gökçen hub…
An-12 let back into UAE
08 / 04 / 2009
UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has lifted the ban on An-12s operating in UAE airspace. However, only operators who…
Customs investigates missing medicine
07 / 04 / 2009
THE Phillipines’s Bureau of Customs is to launch an investigation into how Customs personnel released medicine to a freight forwarder…
Delta March traffic down
07 / 04 / 2009
DELTA Air Lines traffic results for March 2009 show both Delta and Northwest’s operations decreased 12.6 per cent compared to…
Case starts against Heathrow runway
07 / 04 / 2009
PROTESTORS against Heathrow’s proposed third runway have launched a legal appeal. A group of 23 local authorities, local residents groups…
Customs delegation visits Davies Turner
06 / 04 / 2009
A HIGH-level delegation of representatives from a joint EU/China Customs project has visited the London Heathrow headquarters of Davies Turner…
European airfreight collapsed
06 / 04 / 2009
TRAFFIC data for the first two months of 2009 show that European airfreight “has all but collapsed”, according to the…
Dermot Mannion steps down as Aer Lingus CEO
06 / 04 / 2009
Aer Lingus Group today announced that Dermot Mannion (right), group chief executive officer (CEO), has informed the board of Aer…
Forwarders win total insurance exemption
06 / 04 / 2009
AFTER lobbying, the UK government has agreed that freight forwarding and its associated activities will be completely removed from the…
Sale Of Boeing 757 Fleet
06 / 04 / 2009
BRITISH Airways is to sell 11 of its 15 Boeing 757 aircraft for cargo conversion with the aircraft leaving the…
Jordanian cargo airport delayed
05 / 04 / 2009
JORDAN’S new freight airport has been delayed due to an appeal against its location. Local farmers protested that the proposed…
BA losses increase
05 / 04 / 2009
BRITISH Airways (BA) is increasing its previously expected operating loss for the year ending March, mainly due to job cuts….
Unpaid leave for SIA staff
05 / 04 / 2009
OVER 1,400 employees of Singapore Airlines (SIA) have taken voluntary unpaid leave. Most of these are cabin crew and will…
Second FedEx MD-11 has problems at Tokyo
05 / 04 / 2009
A FEDEX MD-11 made an emergency landing at Tokyo’s Narita airport less than a month after another crashed and killed…
Air China sole owner of cargo joint venture
05 / 04 / 2009
AIR China is to become the sole owner of Air China Cargo. It will buy Beijing Capital International Airport’s 24…
New head for Baltic Air Charter
02 / 04 / 2009
DICK Gilbert, managing director of Skyline Aviation, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Baltic Air Charter Association…
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