SINGAPORE Airline’s (SIA) cargo may be up, but an ongoing pilot dispute is dragging it down. SIA Cargo recorded a…
October 2011
Lufthansa Cargo to lose “tens of millions of euros”
19 / 10 / 2011
KARL Ulrich Garnadt, chairman of Lufthansa Cargo, has told Air Cargo News that the surprise blanket ban on night flights…
Aircastle’s Southern duo
18 / 10 / 2011
US-headquartered Aircastle has leased two 747-400SFs to Southern Air Holdings. The aircraft are expected to enter commercial service during the…
NZ court to take on Kuehne and Nagel
18 / 10 / 2011
NEW Zealand’s anti-monopoly commission has defeated Kuehne + Nagel’s appeal against cargo price-fixing cartel charges being tried against it. The…
Air France axes CEO
18 / 10 / 2011
ITS shares have dropped 60 per cent, cargo is down and questions prevail over pilot training – now Air France-KLM’s…
Oman Air’s sea link
17 / 10 / 2011
OMAN Air and the Port of Salalah have signed an agreement opening up a new sea-air cargo corridor through the…
US cargo tax takes off
17 / 10 / 2011
AROUND 10,000 airline jobs in the US could be axed if new federal taxes aimed at reducing the federal budget…
Air France-KLM’s sunny winter trail
17 / 10 / 2011
THIS winter Air France-KLM Cargo and Martinair Cargo are heading where the sun is with a focus on Latin America…
Kuehne and Nagel airfreight up
16 / 10 / 2011
KUEHNE + Nagel’s airfreight sector recorded a 14.5 per cent jump in volumes during the first nine months of 2011…
Shenzhen’s cargo vision
16 / 10 / 2011
SHENZHEN Airport (China) officials have confirmed expansion plans, which include boosting airfreight capacity to two million tonnes per year in…
SWISS on the slow but steady
16 / 10 / 2011
IN the first nine months of the year Swiss WorldCargo saw a 4.9 per cent freight-tonne-kilometre growth. The volume-based load…
Czech selects Aero Cargo
16 / 10 / 2011
CZECH Airlines has appointed ECS Group member Aero Cargo as its general sales agent in Germany. Starting this month Aero…
DHL’s big Indian five
12 / 10 / 2011
DHL is tapping cargo demand out of south India with the launch of a five-times weekly 777 freighter service between…
Korean Air eyes Uzbekistan
12 / 10 / 2011
ONE of the world’s largest cargo carriers, Korean Air, will soon begin shipping airfreight through Navoi international airport (Uzbekistan) to…
US puts Bout on trial
12 / 10 / 2011
VIKTOR Bout, the alleged global air cargo arms dealer, has gone on trial in the US. His prosecutor launched the…
Amerijet opens freight facility
12 / 10 / 2011
CARGO transportation provider Amerijet International has opened a new 20,000 sq ft freight facility in Newark, New Jersey (US). “Amerijet…
The hype around Hyderabad
12 / 10 / 2011
LUFTHANSA Cargo is due to begin a fourth service within a matter of days there and now Hyderabad International Airport…
Cargo returns to Coventry
11 / 10 / 2011
CARGO services at Coventry Airport (UK) have resumed for the first time since they stopped in 2009. The airport was…
Frankfurt slammed with surprise night-flight ban
11 / 10 / 2011
LUFTHANSA and Fraport were hit with a surprise ban on all night flights at Frankfurt airport this week. Germany’s regional…
Qatar’s North American trio
09 / 10 / 2011
QATAR Airways’ cargo division will link Doha (Qatar) to North America via Luxembourg on three new 777F services. Atlanta and…