Boeing has raised its forecast for new airplane demand, projecting the need for 41,030 new aircraft over the next 20…
June 2017
DHL signs up for four more A330-300P2Fs
20 / 06 / 2017
DHL Express has signed up for four more A330-300 passenger-to-freighter conversions from ST Aerospace subsidiary Elbe Flugzeugwerke. The express operator,…
Hybrid Air Freighters to buy up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships
20 / 06 / 2017
Hybrid Air Freighters (HAF) signed a Letter of Intent to purchase up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships, at a total…
CEA Holding sells part stake in Eastern Air Logistics
20 / 06 / 2017
China Eastern Air Holding (CEA Holding) has pushed forward with mixed-ownership reforms to its airfreight business by selling a part…
Goodrich charters three freighters for complex load to Kazakhstan
19 / 06 / 2017
Goodrich Kazakhstan needed three freighter to transport a canopy system from the UAE to one of the biggest construction projects…
time:matters to enter US market as founder departs
19 / 06 / 2017
Time-critical logistics firm time:matters is set to expand operations to the US later this year, while the company founder has…
Siemens’ rotor to Kuwait is project managed by Volga-Dnepr
19 / 06 / 2017
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has completed the urgent delivery of a 57-tonne generator rotor to Kuwait on behalf of energy shipper Siemens….
Jim Butler: A bigger, better American
19 / 06 / 2017
Jim Butler took over as president of American Airlines Cargo on December 9, 2013, the day that the merger of…
Ariaen Zimmerman: Cargo 2000, eighteen years later
19 / 06 / 2017
At next year’s World Cargo Symposium, Cargo 2000 is to get a new name and brand. It has become a…
Chris Leach: Air Charter Service – the first 25 years
19 / 06 / 2017
Re-energised by a diet of salad, fish and regular morning workouts in the company multigym, Chris Leach is in robust…
Munich Airport’s virtuous circle
19 / 06 / 2017
If you want evidence that it is still possible for European airports to capture new freighter business, look no further…
Ashwin Bhat: Swiss WorldCargo looking to preserve the premium
19 / 06 / 2017
It can be tough to take over from a high profile figure, as Ashwin Bhat has done in succeeding Oliver…
Luc Nadal: GEFCO’s purchase of IJS not just a takeover
19 / 06 / 2017
The news in September that French logistics company GEFCO was buying Dutch freight forwarder IJS Global might have surprised those…
Air charterer to the stars
19 / 06 / 2017
Air Charter Service has moved its Los Angeles operations to new, larger premises on Santa Monica Boulevard. Director of ACS…
Dan March: How WCA is backing the independents
19 / 06 / 2017
Just keeping up with all the activities of WCA can leave one a little dizzy. Its founder and outright owner…
Boeing’s Jim Edgar – the history man
19 / 06 / 2017
Jim Edgar, who retired as regional director marketing, commercial airplanes for Boeing in December after an air transport career of…
Schiphol’s Jonas van Stekelenburg: Only connect
19 / 06 / 2017
When you are already one of the world’s busiest cargo airports, and arguably the one best known throughout the industry…
Preetham Philip: Quikjet’s need for speed
19 / 06 / 2017
India-based all-cargo carrier Quikjet Cargo Airlines certainly seems to be a big believer in the theory that slow and steady…
Lars Droog: TIACA’s shipper committee chairman says we need to talk
19 / 06 / 2017
A lot is said in the air cargo industry about the importance of understanding shippers’ needs, but how closely have…
AF-KLM’s Bram Gräber says premium products won’t save you
19 / 06 / 2017
The strong air cargo growth of the three decades to 2008 will not return and premium products are not going…