AERONAUTICAL Engineers Inc (AEI) has delivered the first of four B737-400SF freighters to Switzerland-based integrator support airline FarnAir Europe. The…
March 21, 2015
Volga-Dnepr delivers 103-tonne turbine rotor
21 / 03 / 2015
THIS 103-tonne turbine rotor has arrived in Yekaterinburg, Russia, onboard an An-124-100 Ruslan heavy freighter aircraft operated by Volga-Dnepr Airlines….
Bangkok ground handler wins EU security validation
21 / 03 / 2015
BANGKOK Flight Services (BFS), a WFS Group company, has been validated as a Regulated Agent (RA3), enabling it to accept…
Air Zimbabwe board ‘investigated’
21 / 03 / 2015
REPORTS from Harare claim that Air Zimbabwe has had its entire board of directors fired by Zimbabwean Minister of Transport,…
Amsterdam’s air cargo ‘remote scanning’ pilot under way
21 / 03 / 2015
REPRESENTATIVES from forwarder Rhenus Logistics and Dutch Customs authorities have put a ‘remote scanning’ of airfreight shipments pilot scheme into…
Ruslan International moves giant power station rotor
21 / 03 / 2015
RUSLAN International, which manages and markets the combined fleets of its shareholders Antonov Airlines and Volga Dnepr Airlines, has carried…
Lufthansa Cargo says it with roses
21 / 03 / 2015
LUFTHANSA Cargo flew 1,000 tonnes of long-stem roses from cut-flower producing nations Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador to Germany, so millions…
AirBridgeCargo satisfies Russia’s demand for flowers
21 / 03 / 2015
ROMANTIC Russians provided a business boost for AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the country’s largest cargo carrier, with a big rise in…
IAG Cargo’s Valentine’s Day flower shipments blossom
21 / 03 / 2015
AS THE world’s economy shows tentative signs of recovery, data from IAG Cargo has shown that when it comes to…
LAN CARGO ships 15 million bouquets of flowers
21 / 03 / 2015
LAN CARGO and its affiliates transported 15 million bouquets of flowers all over the world during the four-week flower rush…
Lufthansa Cargo’s Karl Ulrich Garnadt appointed to Fraport’s board
21 / 03 / 2015
LUFTHANSA CARGO’s chief executive officer (CEO) Karl Ulrich Garnadt, has been appointed as a member of Fraport’s supervisory board. The…
Aerolíneas Argentinas gets four A330-200s
21 / 03 / 2015
AEROLÍNEAS Argentinas has signed a purchase agreement for four A330-200s to renew and consolidate their widebodied fleet. Argentina’s flagship carrier…
Confident Cargolux commits to another B747-8 freighter
21 / 03 / 2015
DESPITE widespread over-capacity woes, Cargolux has confidently ordered an additional B747-8 freighter from Boeing as part of its ongoing fleet…
Air cargo down in January for Cathay
21 / 03 / 2015
CATHAY PACIFIC and sister airline Dragonair saw cargo and mail tonnage decline year-over-year in January. They carried 130,955 tonnes of…
Fedex expands its cool chain service
21 / 03 / 2015
MORE FedEx healthcare and life-science customers in Europe can now keep cool about their temperature-sensitive shipments. The US delivery company…
LATAM Airlines cargo up 0.9 per cent
21 / 03 / 2015
LATAM Airlines, the leading airline group in Latin America, says its cargo business increased by 0.9 per cent last year,…
One Question
21 / 03 / 2015
Doug Brittin, secretary general of TIACA, answers: "Some things are very difficult to put a hard timeline on. For example,…
Cargolux eyes combination carriers’ dilemma
21 / 03 / 2015
CARGOLUX will capitalise on the impact that belly capacity is having on some combination carriers, by reasserting its cargo-only credentials….
Saudia Cargo says it with Kenyan flowers
21 / 03 / 2015
SAUDIA Cargo is running four additional B747 freighter flights from Nairobi to Amsterdam this month, to meet the high demand…
SATS gets IATA pharma seal of approval
21 / 03 / 2015
SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services’ (SATS) perishables handling facility has become the world’s first centre of excellence in pharmaceuticals handling, as certified…