BAA is selling Gatwick Airport to US-based investment firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for £1.5 billion. The BAA had been…
October 2009
Rate rise fiasco
22 / 10 / 2009
FREIGHT forwarders are scratching their heads over airlines’ pricing policy. Some have been hurt by rate hikes as the airlines…
Aeroflot Cargo declared bankrupt
22 / 10 / 2009
AEROFLOT Cargo has been declared bankrupt. Rumours that the carrier was struggling have been working their way around the industry…
Van der Weide new vice president cargo of Qatar
22 / 10 / 2009
NIEK van der Weide has been made the new vice-president of cargo at Qatar Airways. He replaces Vikram Singh. Van…
MASkargo recovery kickstarts plans for expansion
20 / 10 / 2009
MASkargo, the air cargo subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines, is considering leasing larger freighters next year when its current leases expire….
Tanzania moves to limit corruption
20 / 10 / 2009
A RULING to limit forwarding licences in Tanzania is actually a sign that harsher regulations are imminent, regulations designed to…
Kuehne and Nagel predicts better Q4 than 2008
20 / 10 / 2009
SWISS logistics group Kuehne + Nagel has predicted that its airfreight business will improve on last year’s figures in the…
ANA hires Globe in France
19 / 10 / 2009
ALL Nippon Airways has appointed Globe Air Cargo as its general sales agent in France as the airline boosts its…
Mayrhuber and Schlede replaced on Swiss board
19 / 10 / 2009
CHRISTOPH Franz and Stefan Lauer succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber and Klaus Schlede on the Swiss board of directors as chairman of…
Airports create new ‘sister act’
15 / 10 / 2009
ABU Dhabi International Airport and Chicago O’Hare International airport signed a Memorandum of Understanding to become ‘sister airports’, in a…
EFIS wins DHL sales contract
15 / 10 / 2009
DHL Aviation has awarded a cargo GSA contract to EFIS Morocco to market capacity on its Boeing 757 freighter services…
Thai signs up Southern’s B777Fs
15 / 10 / 2009
THAI Airways is to take two Southern Air Boeing 777-200 Long Range Freighters to operate initially on Bangkok to Europe…
Warning over Iran trade
15 / 10 / 2009
THE British International Freight Association (BIFA), is urging its membership which includes most of the UK’s freight forwarding companies, to…
Latin American airlines to merge
14 / 10 / 2009
COLOMBIA’S Avianca and El Salvador’s Taca airlines are set to merge. Each will maintain their own identities and operate separately,…
Routes and services update
14 / 10 / 2009
VOLGA-Dnepr’s AirBridgeCargo has introduced a new freighter service between Amsterdam Schiphol (The Netherlands) and Almaty (Kazakhstan), which will route via…
Cathay Pacific figures creeping towards positive
14 / 10 / 2009
CATHAY Pacific Airways has recorded only a slight year-on-year drop in traffic for September, suggesting the Asian carrier’s fortunes will…
Hendrik Falk named vice-president cargo sales
14 / 10 / 2009
GLOBAL Aviation Holdings, parent company of World Airways and North American Airlines, has named Hendrik Falk as vice-president cargo sales….
Emirates increases demands for new 777
14 / 10 / 2009
EMIRATES Airline has reissued its demands to Boeing to improve the range of the 777. Failing that then the airline…
Airport Update
11 / 10 / 2009
HONG Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has announced a drop of 16.3 per cent on its cargo tonnage for…
Lufthansa Cargo is still in the doldrums
11 / 10 / 2009
LUFTHANSA reported a 9.3 per cent drop year-on-year in group cargo and mail shipments for September. Like almost every other…
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