MESSAGE to airline heads of cargo: Your customer’s customer is on the phone, and he wants to talk to you! This…
The elusiveness of air cargo quality
01 / 12 / 2013
THE biggest single problem with the airfreight industry is not so much low yields or overcapacity, but poor quality. Poor…
Agility’s flexible business model
01 / 12 / 2013
IF YOU WANT to know why big hub airports continue to thrive in the air cargo business, you could do…
American Airlines and US Airways to fight justice department merger block
28 / 11 / 2013
AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines and US Airways Group, is to mount a “vigorous and strong defence”…
Lufthansa Cargo launches paperless security process
28 / 11 / 2013
PAPERLESS airfreight is moving closer and closer at innovative Lufthansa Cargo. From now on, customers can send consignment-specific security information electronically…
Panalpina offers US$35m to settle US lawsuit
27 / 11 / 2013
PANALPINA has entered into a preliminary agreement to settle a US class action lawsuit alleging anticompetitive industry practices regarding freight…
Cathay Pacific’s July air cargo drop
27 / 11 / 2013
CATHAY Pacific Airways and Dragonair traffic figures for last month (July 2013) show a year-on-year rise in the number of…
Cathay Pacific’s September air cargo drop
27 / 11 / 2013
CATHAY Pacific Airways’ combined Cathay and Dragonair traffic figures for September 2013 show passenger numbers rising despite decreased capacity –…
Schiphol’s e-freight leap
27 / 11 / 2013
SCHIPHOL Cargo, Cargonaut, KLM Cargo and Air Cargo Netherlands are among the signatories to a revolutionary new information exchange between…
More air cargo support for the Philippines
26 / 11 / 2013
TWELVE days after Typhoon Haiyan hit central Philippines, the air cargo industry has been ratcheting up its efforts to send…
Nordic air cargo volumes fell by nearly 20 per cent in 2012
25 / 11 / 2013
THE PERCEIVED success of the Nordic countries appears to be the envy of the world. Some socio-economic commentators have even…
Etihad Airways orders 56 widebodied Boeing aircraft worth US$25.2bn
23 / 11 / 2013
ETIHAD Airways has ordered 56 widebodied aircraft, with options and purchase rights for 26 more in a deal valued at US$25.2…
Air Canada leads way in piece-level tracking
23 / 11 / 2013
AIR CANADA (AC) Cargo is poised to track shipments at individual piece level. The airline is getting ready to introduce…
New Libyan carrier set for lift off
20 / 11 / 2013
LIBYAN WINGS, the newly-launched, Tripoli-based airline, has signed an agreement for three A350-900s and four A320neo aircraft. The fledgling carrier…
Air cargo industry rallies round Typhoon Haiyan victims
20 / 11 / 2013
THE air cargo industry has been pulling together to help around 11 million people affected by Typhoon Haiyan, which swept through the…
Etihad Cargo and Singapore Airlines Cargo to exchange capacity
18 / 11 / 2013
ETIHAD CARGO and Singapore Airlines Cargo are to exchange confirmed cargo capacity on their services from Abu Dhabi (AUH) to…
New security regulations ‘burdensome’
18 / 11 / 2013
THE United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has proposed numerous and significant changes to the security programmes for US and non-US all cargo…
United Cargo equipped for a new era
18 / 11 / 2013
A MAJOR MERGER and switching to an entirely new IT system must be two of the more stressful things that…
United Cargo equipped for a new era
17 / 11 / 2013
A MAJOR MERGER and switching to an entirely new IT system must be two of the more stressful things that…
Cattle asphyxiated on freighter
15 / 11 / 2013
AUSTRALIAN exports authorities have launched an investigation after dozens of cows were suffocated to death on a B747-8 freighter flight…
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