FRANCE was crippled by more strikes this week, thanks to union members protesting president Sarkozy’s planned raising of the retirement…
October 2010
BAA seeks permission to appeal to Supreme Court
17 / 10 / 2010
BAA says it will appeal to the UK’s Supreme Court over the ongoing battle between it and the Competition Commission….
MK Airlines enters liquidation
17 / 10 / 2010
UK-based MK Airlines, forced from the skies earlier this year, has entered liquidation with John Alexander of Carter Baker Winter…
Asia’s peak season bubble bursts
14 / 10 / 2010
AIRLINES and multinational freight forwarders have overestimated the airfreight demand from Asia in the current peak season and overcapacity is…
ACS takes on its own cargo aircraft
14 / 10 / 2010
AIR Charter Service has recently re-introduced its managed fleet, initially taking on one European-registered Antonov An-26. The company claims that…
Booming Liège moves into the big league
14 / 10 / 2010
LIEGE has been something of an unnoticed success story among European cargo airports, quietly building up its business year after…
IATA will listen to freight forwarders, vows Vertannes
14 / 10 / 2010
DES Vertannes (right), IATA’s new global head of cargo, has reassured freight forwarders that, under his watch, IATA will start…
Freight forwarders plead guilty to cargo price fixing
14 / 10 / 2010
SIX international freight forwarders have pleaded guilty to conspiring to fixing fees and charges on air cargo shipments to the…
e-freight goes live in Geneva
12 / 10 / 2010
GENEVA Airport has become e-freight capable, making it the second airport in Switzerland to become so. Led by Swiss WorldCargo,…
More Indian Customs cargo corruption revealed
12 / 10 / 2010
INDIAN authorities have seized over US$280,000 worth of smuggled electronic goods from the air cargo department at Kochi International Airport…
Ontario sues LA over lack of cargo development
11 / 10 / 2010
AERO Ontario, the developer of a long-proposed cargo hub at California’s Ontario Airport (US), is suing the city of Los…
US still has holes in cargo screening security
11 / 10 / 2010
DESPITE meeting the deadline for 100 per cent cargo screening, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) still has gaping holes…
Freight traffic slows in August
11 / 10 / 2010
INTERNATIONAL cargo traffic rose 19.6 per cent in August, compared with 23 per cent growth in July. This was three…
Lufthansa Cargo continues growth
11 / 10 / 2010
LUFTHANSA Cargo reported an increase in freight and an improved load factor for the year-to-date at the end of 2010’s…
Etihad Crystal Cargo launches Hong Kong service
11 / 10 / 2010
ETIHAD Crystal Cargo, a division of Etihad Airways, will launch a twice-weekly service from its hub at Abu Dhabi International…
Is FAA lithium battery warning a taste of things to come
10 / 10 / 2010
FOLLOWING the UPS freighter crash in Dubai, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an alert to the transport…
Vietnam cargo carrier workers go unpaid
10 / 10 / 2010
VIETNAM’S first fledgling cargo airline, Trai Thien, has been struggling to pay its staff’s wages for the last five months,…
Late start to Asian peak
07 / 10 / 2010
The peak season in Asia has started less strongly than expected, according to Jean-Charles Foucault, senior vice-president sales and distribution…
Etihad launches Hong Kong freighter
07 / 10 / 2010
ETIHAD Crystal Cargo will launch a twice-weekly service from its hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport to Hong Kong, China,…
Lufthansa goes big in Japan
07 / 10 / 2010
FROM 1 November, Lufthansa Cargo will boost its services to Japan to 12 flights a week, virtually doubling its frequencies….