Lufthansa Cargo reported sales 2.3 per cent lower compared with the previous year in January. Load factor fell by 1.3…
February 24, 2015
Take your seats please
24 / 02 / 2015
This year’s Handball World Championship in Qatar may have been controversial but there were no complaints about the seating, which reached…
My Opinion
24 / 02 / 2015
Akbar Al Baker – Group chief executive of Qatar Airways Says: “IAG represents an excellent opportunity to further develop our Westwards…
TNT goes Blue Bananas with rate discount
24 / 02 / 2015
TNT is offering a temporary 20 per cent discount off rate card as part of its ‘Blue Banana’ campaign to…
Apple Appeal
24 / 02 / 2015
Apple announced mouth-watering net quarterly profits of $18bn for the final three months of 2014. That staggering 38 per cent…
Price tops charter priorities
24 / 02 / 2015
PRICE remains the most important factor in the air cargo charter market, an exclusive customer survey for Air Cargo News…
Do not wait for an MD-90 freighter
24 / 02 / 2015
A combination of low demand and tight feedstock have doomed plans for a freighter conversion programme of the MD-90, writes…
Korean orders five B777Fs worth $1.5bn
24 / 02 / 2015
Korean Air has finalised an order for five B777 freighters, valued at more than $1.5bn. As one of the world’s…
Pacific Air adds B747F flight as US port crisis grows
24 / 02 / 2015
US West Coast port chaos has seen Pacific Air Cargo (PAC) plan to operate an additional B747 freighter service on its…
By Antonov to the North Pole
24 / 02 / 2015
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and logistics partners GAC Norway and POLOG have delivered a pre-fabricated Arctic research station to northern Greenland….
Roses are green?
24 / 02 / 2015
A study shows that flying roses from far flung warmer countries generates less CO2 than the artificial irrigation and additional…
High five for Lufthansa Cargo’s latest B777F
24 / 02 / 2015
Lufthansa Cargo has welcomed its fifth Boeing 777 freighter to Frankfurt. The freighter, with registration D-ALFE, arrived from a Boeing…
Vote for your Cargo Airline of the Year
24 / 02 / 2015
Voting is now open for Air Cargo News’ 32nd annual Cargo Airline of the Year awards. You can vote for…
Stronger outbound China cargo boosts Cathay/Dragonair
24 / 02 / 2015
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried a combined 147,275 tonnes of cargo and mail in January, an increase of 12.5 per…
TNT chief warns of tough times ahead
24 / 02 / 2015
TNT Express made a €137m loss in the fourth quarter of 2014 and continues to face challenging trading conditions, said…
PEMCO converted freighter number three for China’s CDI
24 / 02 / 2015
US-owned PEMCO World Air Services has redelivered a third Boeing 737 to Chinese carrier CDI Cargo Airlines after converting it…
We will do better, promise TNT management
24 / 02 / 2015
TNT Express has outlined the steps that will return the parcels and freight operator to profit. A core part of…
Africa: New challengers for the cargo king’s crown
24 / 02 / 2015
The domination of the regional air cargo market by non-African carriers, such as Air France-KLM, Emirates and Lufthansa, and by…
Nordisk parent sold to TransDigm
24 / 02 / 2015
Aerospace components firm TransDigm Group has reached agreement to buy the Telair Cargo Group of businesses, owners of the Nordisk…
Kale breaks into Iraq market
24 / 02 / 2015
Iraqi ground-handler Azmar Air has gone live with Kale’s Galaxy International air cargo management system. Azmar, based at Sulaymaniyah International…
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