Asian Pacific airlines saw a “marginal increase” in cargo markets during 2015, while passenger traffic recorded “robust growth”. Preliminary full…
January 2016
From lamb cargo to LAN Cargo, 2,000 Magellan sheep flown to Ecuador
26 / 01 / 2016
LAN Cargo has begun transporting more than 2,000 sheep from the Magallanes region, destined for the sheep-farming and wool-weaving indigenous…
Luxembourg cargo on a three year high
26 / 01 / 2016
Luxembourg airport ended 2015 on a high note with a total of 738,136 tonnes of freight and post transported by…
Qatar adds east Europe options
26 / 01 / 2016
Qatar Airways has announced a clutch of service improvements from its Doha hub to eastern Europe in 2016. They include…
US East Coast still snowbound
26 / 01 / 2016
Air services on the US east coast are only just beginning to resume after the recent snowstorm put all major…
Rico squares the Circle
26 / 01 / 2016
Troubled UK airfreight collection and delivery specialist Circle Express has found a new home in Rico, part of the TVS…
DHL adds Mideast muscle
26 / 01 / 2016
DHL has added two Boeing 767 freighters to its Bahrain-based Middle East and North Africa , the express carrier announced…
Green sky thinking in Scandinavia
26 / 01 / 2016
SAS, KLM and Lufthansa are taking part in a biofuel trial at Oslo Gardermoen airport, the first international gateway where…
Londoners ‘favour Gatwick expansion’ claims airport operator
26 / 01 / 2016
Londoners are more in favour of expanding Gatwick than the alternatives says the airport operator, quoting a YouGov poll, the…
Iran poised to buy planes again
26 / 01 / 2016
Iran is poised to begin the long process of rebuilding its civil aviation fleet, following the ending of UN sanctions…
Airfreight prices down in December
26 / 01 / 2016
Airfreight prices ended the year on a low note as underlying market weakness caused rates to sharply decline, but improvements…
‘The best of times and the worst of times’
26 / 01 / 2016
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness,…
‘The best of times and the worst of times’
26 / 01 / 2016
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness,…
DB Schenker deal extended
26 / 01 / 2016
DB Schenker has had its logistics contract with electronics company Maxwell Europe extended. The scope of activities includes European distribution…
We’re in this together
26 / 01 / 2016
MEANINGFUL partnerships may be the new way forward for competing air cargo companies. When there is too much capacity, when…
Munich subsidiary buys Berlin airport ground handler
26 / 01 / 2016
Southern Germany airport group Flughafen München (FMG) has expanded its ground handling operations in Berlin with the purchase of a…
Global GSA parent firm wins Maastricht Airport concession
22 / 01 / 2016
The parent company of Global GSA has been awarded a ten year concession to take over operations of Maastricht Aachen…
Cargo demand jumps by 8% at Turkish Airlines
22 / 01 / 2016
Turkish Airlines saw its cargo volumes jump by more than 8% last year as it added several new freighter routes….
Atlas Air to acquire Southern Air in $110m takeover
22 / 01 / 2016
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Southern Air Holdings, a US provider…
Michael Richter appointed new managing director of Cargogate
22 / 01 / 2016
Munich Airport cargo handling company Cargogate has appointed Michael Richter as managing director. Already familiar with the company through his…
© Designed by Air Cargo News
