QANTAS – Australia’s national carrier has announced a 27 per cent drop in net freight revenues. Underlying earnings from Qantas…
October 2012
US job threat
16 / 10 / 2012
FEDEX will start making redundancy or buyout offers to some employees in March 2013, a spokesman has confirmed. She said…
Kennel warning after dog escape
16 / 10 / 2012
AMERICAN Airlines has issued a fresh warning on snap top kennels after a dog broke lose on a busy runway. The…
Premier League plan for Manchester
16 / 10 / 2012
FAMOUS for its music and football Manchester UK looks set to join the air cargo premier league thanks to a…
IATA Cargo Results
16 / 10 / 2012
AIRFREIGHT demand contracted 3.2 per cent in July compared to the same month in 2011 according to figures from IATA. However,…
Panalpina plans to chill
16 / 10 / 2012
PANALPINA are planning for growing demand in the temperature controlled freight market. In the first half of this year 20…
Cargolux quits Quito
16 / 10 / 2012
Cargolux is to resume flights to Latacunga, Equador following renovations at the airport. A spokesman for the carrier, which hasn’t…
Saudia adds to HK route
16 / 10 / 2012
SAUDIA Cargo has announced that it is to add a new weekly freighter from Hong Kong – in response to customer…
Cargo Champion
16 / 10 / 2012
CHRIS Foyle is best known in the industry for bringing the Antonov AN124 out from behind the Iron Curtain. It…
Leipzig leap
16 / 10 / 2012
LEIPZIG Halle Airport registered double-digit growth levels during the first six months of 2012. The airport, Germany’s second largest cargo…
LaHood for air cargo
16 / 10 / 2012
THE US Transport Secretary will give the TIACA keynote to cargo bosses in October. Ray LaHood will address The International…
MNG’s A330-200F arrives
16 / 10 / 2012
MNG Airlines (Turkey) says its fleet expansion programme is on course after taking delivery of a new A330-200F. The major…
Cargolux “nice guys”
16 / 10 / 2012
CARGOLUX is no faceless corporation according to a group of aircraft enthusiasts who contacted the Luxembourg based carrier. For many…
Air cargo gets its skates on
16 / 10 / 2012
THE parallels between figure skating and airfreight might not be immediately obvious. Both do have a certain grace and efficiency…
Freighter panel falls on US town
16 / 10 / 2012
AIR investigators have been called to Seattle in the US after a door panel fell from a freighter – narrowly…
CHEP wins Qatar deal
16 / 10 / 2012
QATAR Airways has awarded its ULD and galley equipment maintenance contract to CHEP Aerospace Solutions in a five-year deal. CHEP…
Saudia grows in West Africa
16 / 10 / 2012
SAUDIA Cargo has added nine destinations in West Africa via Lagos, Nigeria. Saudia Cargo now serves the cities of Abidjan,…
747-200 freighter shreds 14 tyres
16 / 10 / 2012
AN electrical failure is thought to be behind an emergency landing at Ted Stevens Anchorage Airport, US. Local media have…
Frankfurt Airport’s August freight fall
16 / 10 / 2012
FRANKFURT Airport’s (FRA) airfreight volumes fell by 4.1 per cent to 165,406 tonnes year-on-year in August this year. “Once again,…
WFS strikes TAP deal
16 / 10 / 2012
WFS (Worldwide Flight Services) has won a two-year contract with carrier TAP Portugal at Newark Liberty Airport. Under the terms…
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