WITH labour costs increasing in China, Vietnam continues its evolution of turning into Asia-Pacific’s manufacturing country of choice. The International…
April 2012
India’s budget airline pioneer’s new venture
19 / 04 / 2012
THE pioneer of India’s budget airline revolution is setting up a new carrier. Captain GR Gopinath – whose cargo airline…
Charter specialist targets Latin America
19 / 04 / 2012
UK AIR charter specialist Chartersphere is to develop operations in Spain and South America. The move follows the appointment of…
Cargo jobs go in American purge
19 / 04 / 2012
AMERICAN Airlines (AA) plans to slash 1,200 non-union jobs, including cargo staff, in a bid to reduce annual expenses by…
Merger for Jordanian
18 / 04 / 2012
ROYAL Jordanian Airlines (RJA) could merge with a larger carrier, reveals its resigning chief executive officer. Hussein Dabbas says the…
Qantas Freighter to Chongqing
18 / 04 / 2012
QANTAS Freight Enterprises launches a weekly scheduled freighter service from Sydney (Australia) to the Chinese manufacturing hub of Chongqing. The…
Eritrean freighter to Frankfurt
18 / 04 / 2012
ERITREAN Airlines (East Africa) resurrects its weekly scheduled freighter service at Frankfurt Airport (Germany) with an Airbus A319 aircraft. The…
St Louis seeks tax benefit
18 / 04 / 2012
A REVISED proposal giving companies shipping freight out of Lambert/St Louis International Airport (US) tax breaks moves a step closer…
Israeli cargo airline’s Euro doubts
17 / 04 / 2012
ISRAEL’S CAL Cargo Air Lines is considering the benefits of becoming a European-registered company. The all-cargo carrier is worried about…
Cathay expands despite cargo drop
16 / 04 / 2012
CATHAY Pacific Airways is forging ahead with its plans to expand air cargo services to India despite revealing its freight…
New first with broker partnership
16 / 04 / 2012
THREE cargo charter brokers have launched what they claim is the world’s first consortium of independent brokers – Global Charter…
Japanese cargo rising
16 / 04 / 2012
JAPAN’S All Nippon Airways (ANA) reveals its year-on-year international cargo tonnage rose 24.5 per cent in February, to 42,470 metric…
Russian cargo firm buys German carrier
16 / 04 / 2012
RUSSIAN cargo group Volga-Dnepr has bought Air Cargo Germany (ACG) after acquiring a 49 per cent stake in the carrier….
Emirates’ Sydney freighter
15 / 04 / 2012
EMIRATES SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, has launched an additional weekly freighter service from Sydney (Australia) to boost trade…
Aramex’s Ghandour retires
15 / 04 / 2012
FOUNDER and chief executive officer of Aramex, Fadi Ghandour (far right), will retire from his post at the end of…
New hub airport for India
15 / 04 / 2012
PLANS are afoot to turn Indore’s Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport into an international cargo hub, an Indian government minister reveals….
Site of new London airport slammed
15 / 04 / 2012
ARCHITECTS of a proposed airport near London have chosen the “very worst spot”, according to the head of the national…
Atlas pushes ‘asset-light’ ops
12 / 04 / 2012
ATLAS Air Worldwide Holdings is growing its crew, maintenance and insurance (CMI) operations, saying such ‘asset-light’ contracts will increasingly become…
Air France-KLM staff launch court action
12 / 04 / 2012
AIR France-KLM staff in Pakistan have launched a court case against the carrier over the loss of their jobs and…