SAUDIA Cargo will add three 747s on its scheduled services and create more capacity for the charter market. The carrier…
July 2012
Saudia ‘privatisation’ on schedule
30 / 07 / 2012
SAUDI Arabian Airlines’ (Saudia) privatisation is progressing well, said Khaled Al-Molhem, Saudia’s director general, this week. Speaking at the signing…
Cardiff Airport crippled by government inertia
27 / 07 / 2012
AN executive at Cardiff International Airport has branded the Welsh government “un-businesslike”. Steve Hodgetts, the airport’s director of business development,…
Emirates settles cargo-fix claims
27 / 07 / 2012
EMIRATES has become the fifteenth airline to settle in an air cargo antitrust case in the US. The airline has…
Virgin signs dnata deal
26 / 07 / 2012
VIRGIN cargo are celebrating a long standing relationship with handlers dnata by awarding them with a fresh contract. Neil Ferdinando, general…
Air freighted mango imports to US – interrupted
26 / 07 / 2012
EXPORTERS to the US have blamed a lack of air cargo capacity for mangoes failing to reach market. According to…
Delta and NWA merger will create worlds biggest airline
26 / 07 / 2012
US legacy carriers Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines have agreed to merge, creating the largest commercial airline in the…
West Atlantic poised
26 / 07 / 2012
WEST Atlantic is ready to capitalise on the upturn – cargo boss. Russell Ladkin, sales director of West Atlantic, says the…
Singapore cargo steadies
24 / 07 / 2012
Following a series of falls at Singapore’s Changi air cargo was up last month. 153,300 tonnes of airfreight moved through…
Dnata buys UK cargo-handling operations
24 / 07 / 2012
DNATA has bought two of the UK’s leading ground-handling operations from the Go-Ahead Group. For £15 million (US$24.0 million) it…
Southwest Airlines posts profit hike
24 / 07 / 2012
SOUTHWEST Airlines (US) answers the naysayers by more than doubling its profits in the second quarter of 2012. The low-fare major…
Virgin Atlantic Cargo expands in Oz
24 / 07 / 2012
VIRGIN Atlantic Cargo has signed a contract to manage Australia-based Strategic Airlines’ entire long-haul cargo activity on new Phuket (Thailand)…
West Atlantic to lease AerCap A320Fs
23 / 07 / 2012
WEST Atlantic has agreed to lease AerCap’s first converted A320 freighters. The aircraft are part of a passenger-to-freighter conversion project…
Air Cargo bosses over the mooncakes
23 / 07 / 2012
DUTCH, Chinese and international air chiefs are to exchange traditional cakes and flowers to mark an historic freight deal. Schiphol…
West Atlantic will be A320 P2F launch customer
23 / 07 / 2012
WEST Atlantic will become the world’s first operator of the Airbus A320 passenger-to-freight (P2F) conversion by AerCap. The deal involves…
West Air launches new freighter service
23 / 07 / 2012
IN a departure from its normal mail/integrator business, West Air launched a new dedicated freighter service linking Oslo and Stavanger…
Singapore Airlines Cargo extends WFS partnership
23 / 07 / 2012
SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) Cargo has extended its cargo handling agreement with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). The new contract will cover…
Changi growth signals better times
23 / 07 / 2012
The recovery during the peak season for airfreight from Asia has been confirmed by much improved growth figures from Singapore…
Glowing for broke
23 / 07 / 2012
IT WOULD be fair to say that a combination of economic instability, extortionate fuel prices, which have only recently seen…
Debate – Pilot fatigue row steps up
23 / 07 / 2012
CAN cargo pilots fly safely having had less sleep than their colleagues who fly passenger planes? “Whether you’re flying boxes…
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