CONTINUED success at Saudia Cargo has led to the promotion of Fahad Hammad, its current chief executive, to a big…
February 2013
US Airways appoints ECS Group GSA in France
27 / 02 / 2013
US AIRWAYS – now part of American Airlines – has appointed EFIS Air, a subsidiary of ECS Group, as its…
The virtual global cargo airline
27 / 02 / 2013
IF YOU were asked to name an airline that had risen rapidly in the past five years to become the…
ACS appoints group deputy managing director
26 / 02 / 2013
CHARTER specialist, Air Charter Service (ACS), has promoted Justin Bowman from commercial director to group deputy managing director. Along with…
What makes Saudia Cargo so successful?
25 / 02 / 2013
WHILE the air cargo business remains stuck in its economic winter, in one part of the world it still seems…
Brussels Airlines’ African links bear fruit
25 / 02 / 2013
AFRICA plays a rather crucial part in the fortunes of Brussels Airlines’ (SN) freight strategy with more than 80 per…
Cargo Champion – Hjoerdis Stahl
25 / 02 / 2013
PICTURE a diminutive six-year-old smiling sweetly as she helps an air stewardess serve drinks on board a Lufthansa flight from…
Saudia Cargo’s ‘most successful year’
24 / 02 / 2013
SAUDI Airlines Cargo achieved record results in 2012, posting total figures of 516,000 tonnes, resulting in a 21 per cent…
Schenker augments UK cargo hub
21 / 02 / 2013
THE UK arm of global logistics services provider DB Schenker Logistics, has completed a major re-investment programme at one of…
Suitcases prioritised over ‘lowly freight’
20 / 02 / 2013
SADLY, for many airfreight customers, there is another type of air cargo shipment, which travels on passenger aircraft that usually…
Cargo Airline of the Year 2013 voting opens
20 / 02 / 2013
VOTING in this year’s Air Cargo News Cargo Airline of the Year competition commenced on Monday February 11. Readers are now…
Dubai Airports’ cargo soars
20 / 02 / 2013
DUBAI World Central (UAE) recorded a 144 per cent hike in freight traffic in 2012, compared with the previous year…
Lufthansa Cargo’s rosy mission
20 / 02 / 2013
LUFTHANSA CARGO is airfreighted millions of red roses straight to the hearts of Europe. Fully-laden MD-11 freighters imported some 1,000 tonnes…
Kargosistem welcomes capacity hike
20 / 02 / 2013
MAINDECK space shortages ex-Istanbul may now be eased for Turkish GSSA Kargosistem as a result of a significant capacity increase…
SDV’s new Columbian subsidiary
20 / 02 / 2013
FRENCH logistics giant SDV has created a subsidiary in Colombia. The company already has a significant Latin American presence, with…
AA Cargo strengthens Central America sales with new GSSA
12 / 02 / 2013
AMERICAN Airlines Cargo has strengthened its sales offering in Central America with the appointment of a single GSSA – FlyUs…
Oman Air expands fleet to 30
12 / 02 / 2013
OMAN Air has expanded its fleet of B737-800s with the introduction of two additional aircraft, bringing the airline’s total fleet…
Astral predicts intra-Africa boom
12 / 02 / 2013
WITHOUT doubt, the poor acceleration of intra-African trade continues to hinder the continent’s bid to markedly increase its global air…
Saudia Cargo says it with flowers
12 / 02 / 2013
SAUDIA CARGO is to operate a series of four extra, wide-bodied freighter flights from Nairobi to Amsterdam to meet extra…
Air Cargo News readership survey iPad winner
12 / 02 / 2013
DENHAM BAXTER (pictured, left) managing director of highly successful UK forwarding and logistics company Davies Turner Air Cargo, contributed to the Air…