CHINA Southern Airlines began scheduled freighter services between Shanghai and Frankfurt Airport on 4 December, 2009. The service is currently…
December 2009
IATA traffic results improving
14 / 12 / 2009
THE International Air Transport Association reported international scheduled traffic results for October 2009 showing improving conditions. Demand for international cargo…
Aer Lingus signs Swissport
13 / 12 / 2009
AER Lingus has chosen Swissport to be its cargo handler at 10 Aer Lingus stations in Europe. These include Brussels,…
Il-76 held in Bangkok for arms running
13 / 12 / 2009
AN Air West Georgia Il-76 was detained in Bangkok on Saturday for smuggling arms out of North Korea.A government spokesman,…
Cathay Pacific cargo traffic grows
13 / 12 / 2009
CATHAY Pacific Airways and Dragonair carried a total of 141,799 tons of cargo and mail in November, an increase of…
Lufthansa Cargo at standstill for two hours today
13 / 12 / 2009
LUFTHANSA Cargo’s Corporate Works Council is staging a works meeting today that will, in effect, stop operations for two hours….
Screening bottlenecks set to ‘cause chaos’
10 / 12 / 2009
WITH the implementation deadline for 100 per cent screening of bellyhold cargo looming, carrier executives are warning of screening bottlenecks…
Iraqi Airways fights back against monopoly claims
10 / 12 / 2009
IRAQI Airways is slowly getting back on its feet, according to operations director, Captain Guy Moss (right). After years of…
Delta says good riddance to its final freighter ‘wart’
10 / 12 / 2009
DELTA Air Lines is relieved to cut off the “wart” of freighter operations, according to vice-president cargo, Neel Shah.As the…
Capacity crunch
10 / 12 / 2009
SUDDENLY the first flickers of smiles are appearing on the faces of cargo airline executives as the peak season out…
UTi operating income down 42 per cent
07 / 12 / 2009
UTI Worldwide reported a 42 per cent decrease in operating income for the third quarter, down to US$31.4 million, from…
ANA Cargo to break even in 2011
07 / 12 / 2009
ALL Nippon Airways (ANA) Cargo expects to post its first profit in 2011, according to its head Kiyoshi Tonomoto.Tonomoto said…
Southern Air makes Daniel McHugh CEO
07 / 12 / 2009
CARGO carrier, Southern Air, has named Daniel McHugh (right) its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective 1 January, 2010.McHugh succeeds…
Hahn breaks monthly freight record
07 / 12 / 2009
MORE airfreight was shipped through Frankfurt-Hahn Airport in November than ever before. At 21,660 tonnes, the month’s cargo traffic was…
TSA’s Kelly dies
06 / 12 / 2009
EDWARD Kelly, the head of the US Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) cargo division, has died.Kelly led the cargo security branch…
ACG starts China flights
06 / 12 / 2009
AIR Cargo Germany (ACG) has started flying to Shanghai and Hong Kong.“We are extremely pleased to finally having obtained the…
JAL sees light at the end of the tunnel
06 / 12 / 2009
JAPAN Airlines (JAL) looks to be pulling itself out of an early grave, with a little help.Following news that the…
Boeing delivers 777Fs to China Southern
03 / 12 / 2009
CHINA Southern Airlines has finally taken delivery of two 777 freighters it had on order, doubling its freight capacity.The carrier…
Korean Air orders more 747-8s
03 / 12 / 2009
KOREAN Air has ordered another five 747-8s to be delivered between 2013 and 2015.This takes the carrier’s total number of…
Ex-Malaysian airfreight rates double
03 / 12 / 2009
AIRFREIGHT rates on major carriers out of Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport have doubled recently, prompting freight forwarders to use…