THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced international scheduled traffic results for June showing airfreight demand was down 16.5…
July 2009
Legal tangle leads to seized IL-78
28 / 07 / 2009
A CARGO plane impounded at a Michigan (US) airport is at the centre of a legal, administrative and immigration row….
People update
28 / 07 / 2009
DELTA Cargo has promoted Danita Waterfall-Brizzi (right) to director cargo sales and service for Europe, the Middle East, India and…
Airport update
28 / 07 / 2009
MEMPHIS International Airport has recorded its first year-on-year increase in cargo traffic for 14 months. June’s traffic rose 1.5 per…
Obituary – Rowland Roberts
27 / 07 / 2009
ROWLAND Roberts (right), for many years UK cargo manager of SAS and a very popular individual in the business, passed…
Cargoitalia operates first flight
27 / 07 / 2009
CARGOITALIA – Italy’s new all-cargo carrier – has successfully performed its first commercial flight since its re-formation under new management…
Swissport provides reports to Cargo 2000
27 / 07 / 2009
SWISSPORT Cargo Services is now the very first global handling company to provide monthly performance reports to the Cargo 2000…
French cargo workers kidnap bosses
26 / 07 / 2009
FRENCH workers held two of their executives against their will last week after layoff talks broke down. Following Servisair Cargo…
Boeing second quarter profit up
26 / 07 / 2009
BOEING has reported a 17 per cent rise in its second-quarter profit, beating analyst predictions. It says it earned US$998…
Indias air cargo sector set to boom
26 / 07 / 2009
INDIAN air cargo, which until now has remained negligible, is set to change in the next three to four years…
Lufthansa cuts 400 more jobs
23 / 07 / 2009
LUFTHANSA is to cut 20 per cent of its administrative jobs as part of a €1 billion (US$1.41 billion) cost-cutting…
Americans second quarter cargo drops 42 per cent
23 / 07 / 2009
AMERICAN Airlines’ parent company – AMR – has posted a loss of US$390 million for the second calendar quarter. Revenues…
Continental cuts jobs after heavy Q2 loss
23 / 07 / 2009
CONTINENTAL Airlines is to slash 1,700 jobs and raise luggage fees following its posting of a US$213 million loss for…
Gatwick sale stalls
23 / 07 / 2009
GATWICK’S sale by BAA is still stalled after the two leading bidders have walked away from the negotiating table. BAA…
Vazquez vows to pursue BA Iberia merger
22 / 07 / 2009
IBERIA’S new chairman, Antonio Vazquez (right), has stated that he will pursue the merger with British Airways (BA) that has…
Garuda off EU blacklist announces expansion
22 / 07 / 2009
NATIONAL flag carrier, Garuda Indonesia, along with four others, has been taken off the European safety blacklist. Garuda, Airfast, Mandala…
China Airlines fate improves
22 / 07 / 2009
TAIWAN’S China Airlines is expecting to break its run of quarterly losses and break even this year. China Airlines lost…
Cathay records smallest fall this year
22 / 07 / 2009
CATHAY Pacific Airway’s cargo fell 10 per cent in June from last year, the lowest so far for 2009. Both…
Hong Kong slows fall
21 / 07 / 2009
HONG Kong airfreight traffic fell 14.4 per cent in June compared to last year, the smallest monthly decline since October….
ABX Astar slash jobs
21 / 07 / 2009
ABX Air is to slash over 1,000 jobs from Wilmington, Ohio, when its airport services contract with DHL runs out…