DEMAND in the cargo sector at Munich Airport (Germany) showed a strong increase in 2011, with a total freight turnover…
January 2012
New Nigerian cargo airline
18 / 01 / 2012
SKYWAY Aviation Handling Company (SAHCOL) in Nigeria is looking to set up a US$500 million cargo airline. “We don’t want…
FedEx to lose US$400 million
17 / 01 / 2012
RESTRUCTURING behind the doors of the US Postal Service (PS) will likely cost FedEx Express almost half a billion dollars…
Cathay’s cargo slump
16 / 01 / 2012
WEAK demand out of China has dampened Cathay Pacific hopes of a cargo recovery. Freight transported by Cathay Pacific and…
Eaglexpress plans cargo move
16 / 01 / 2012
NEW Asian company Eaglexpress Air Charter is looking to acquire freighters this year. Eaglexpress paid US$18million for its first aircraft,…
Etihad Crystal Cargo record
15 / 01 / 2012
LAST year Etihad Crystal Cargo carried a record 310,000 metric tonnes, 18 per cent more than in 2010. The boost…
SkyCargo expands down south
15 / 01 / 2012
EMIRATES SkyCargo’s portfolio now includes new South American destinations following the launch of a daily passenger service from Dubai (UAE)…
Vienna’s royal cargo calling
15 / 01 / 2012
ROYAL Jordanian (RJ) is lifting frequency to Vienna (Austria) following the beginning of services there at the tail end of…
MAS sticks to home ground
12 / 01 / 2012
MALAYSIAN Airline System (MAS) is pulling back from European traffic routes and localising in the Asia-Pacific region, as it looks…
Kenya closes cargo’s back door
12 / 01 / 2012
ONE of Africa’s leading perishables exporters, Kenya, could see cargo flows damaged by a new policy put in place this…
Heathrow pressures Schiphol
12 / 01 / 2012
LONDON Heathrow Airport (UK) saw a 14.2 per cent surge in freight traffic during December 2011, a record for the…
China stretches the tarmac
12 / 01 / 2012
IT has five of them in the world’s top 25 air hubs by cargo volume and now China is looking…
Turkish cargo grows by a quarter
11 / 01 / 2012
TURKISH Airlines’ cargo division recorded an increase of 23.7 per cent in freight carried from 313,517 metric tonnes in 2010…
Weiss-Röhlig Japan acquires JHB Express
11 / 01 / 2012
WEISS-Röhlig Japan, an international joint venture of Gebrüder Weiss and Röhlig Logistics, has taken over Japanese airfreight and seafreight shipping…
IAG beats AF-KLM to finishing post
11 / 01 / 2012
IT is a case of victory for the young over the old. Recent merger IAG (British Airways-Iberia) ended 2011 with…
Price-fix appeal is a Seoul-shock
11 / 01 / 2012
SIXTEEN airlines charged with price-fixing in South Korea have lost their appeal. The Seoul High Court rejected Thai Airways’ demand…
Hong Kong’s depressing December
10 / 01 / 2012
CARGO throughput at Hong Kong Airport’s (China) Asia Airfreight Terminal in December 2011 fell nine per cent year-on-year. Total registered…
Swiss’ steady year
10 / 01 / 2012
SWISS WorldCargo reported a 1.7 per cent increase in estimated annual cargo tonne-kilometre sales in 2011. Cargo load factor for…
Emirates boosts UK and Ireland cargo capacity
10 / 01 / 2012
CARGO capacity on Emirates’ Glasgow (Scotland) to Dubai (UAE) route will expand by 59 per cent following the introduction of…
A380 ‘cracked wing’ alarm
09 / 01 / 2012
CARRIERS are noticing alarming cracks developing on the wings of the A380. “The cracks detected by Qantas and Singapore Airlines…
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