September 2011

Ethiopian to buy four 777Fs

WITHIN the coming weeks Ethiopian Airlines will purchase four 777Fs from Boeing. The carrier is rapidly expanding its fleet following…

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St Louis hub – the trickle before the flood

PLANS to transform Lambert-St Louis International Airport (US) into a cargo hub connecting China and the US will get underway…

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Pigs might fly

AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC) has transported 1,150 pigs from Winnipeg (Canada) to Domodedovo Airport (Russia). The animals, weighing a total of…

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Asiana expands fleet

ASIANA Airlines is lifting capacity on its route from Incheon (South Korea) to the US west coast. World Airways, a…

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DHL’s five special freighters

FIVE DHL-owned 767-200PCFs are being converted to special freighter configuration by US-based Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services (AMES). AMES has…

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UTi’s airfreight slump

FREIGHT forwarder UTi Worldwide’s airfreight volumes fell in the fiscal second quarter against high volumes in the year-ago period. Despite…

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