THE proposed merger between Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) and Japan Airlines’ (JAL) cargo division has stalled.The merger was planned for…
January 2010
Lebedev’s departure signals ‘all change’ at Aeroflot
31 / 01 / 2010
RUSSIA’S government, keen to retake control of the country’s aviation sector, has encouraged the oligarch, Alexander Lebedev (right), to sell…
Brussels Airport struggles
27 / 01 / 2010
BRUSSELS Airport handled 450,000 tonnes of cargo in 2009: a drop by 32.1 per cent from 2008’s 661,000 tonnes.The airport…
All change at Air Charter Service
27 / 01 / 2010
AIR Charter Service’s (ACS) opening of a new office in Toronto has led to a string of promotions around the…
Cargonaut and Traxon launch e-freight system
27 / 01 / 2010
AS part of the e-freight initiative, Cargonaut International and Traxon Europe have jointly launched a web-based central document and message…
WCA conference pulls in record numbers
27 / 01 / 2010
THE WCA Family Conference Week, held between 10 and 17 January, attracted 1,400 delegates, 300 more than originally planned.At the…
Nigeria cracks down on unlicensed forwarders
27 / 01 / 2010
NIGERIA is now requiring freight forwarders to register to operate within the country, allegedly to target foreign companies in particular….
AEI to convert 737 for MNG
26 / 01 / 2010
MNG Airlines of Turkey has appointed Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) to convert a B737-400SF passenger aircraft into a freighter. It will…
LAN profits down nearly a third in 2009
26 / 01 / 2010
CHILE’S main carrier LAN recorded a fall in net profit of 31 per cent to US$231 million in 2009. Profits…
2009 worst year since WWII
26 / 01 / 2010
FIGURES from the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) for December and full-year 2009 show the aviation industry ended 2009 with…
All change at the top for JAL
26 / 01 / 2010
JAPAN Airlines (JAL) Group has made two new appointments for its restructure.Effective 1 February, Masaru Onishi will be president and…
Korean Air projects booming 2010 profit
25 / 01 / 2010
THANKS to a rebound in cargo demand, Korean Air has posted almost a seven-fold increase in its quarterly operating profit.The…
Seized Il-76 tracked back to Kazakhstan
25 / 01 / 2010
AN extensive investigation into the tangled web of shell companies that were behind the Il-76 seized in Bangkok (Thailand) for…
Irish exporters demand no strike clause
25 / 01 / 2010
FOLLOWING the Irish air traffic controllers strike last week, the Irish Exporters Association (IEA) has called for the government to…
ABC appoints Wallenborn as Euro distributor
25 / 01 / 2010
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines has awarded Wallenborn Group a contract for Europe-wide distribution.Wolfgang Meier, executive senior vice-president sales of AirBridgeCargo, said: “This…
AF-KLM airfreight increases
24 / 01 / 2010
AIR France-KLM December’s cargo business saw a marked, 8.4 point improvement in its load factor to 70.1 per cent. Traffic…
Hactl traffic stabilises
24 / 01 / 2010
HONG Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) handled 2,323,605 tonnes of cargo in 2009, representing a year-on-year reduction of 8.3…
Avient expects imminent delivery of MD-11F
24 / 01 / 2010
Avient is to take delivery of another MD-11 freighter tomorrow. The aircraft, Avient’s second of the type, arrived at the…
Ethiopian 737 crashes into Mediterranean
24 / 01 / 2010
AN Ethiopian Airlines 737 has crashed into the sea shortly after take off from Beirut (Lebanon). The aircraft, bound for…
Cargolux recapitalises to cover losses
21 / 01 / 2010
THE need to meet the requirements of bank finance agreements following substantial losses in the fiscal year 2008-9, was behind…
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