DHL Express has inked a contract that extends the lease on its facility at Bahrain International Airport (BIA) for another…
May 2019
Hong Kong Airport’s freight throughput continues to wane
20 / 05 / 2019
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) handled 394,000 tonnes of cargo in April, down by 8.1% on the same month of…
Cathay Pacific Cargo volumes fall in April
20 / 05 / 2019
Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried a total of 163,694 tonnes of cargo and mail in April, a fall of…
Finnair Cargo appoints Swissport for Helsinki’s COOL Nordic Cargo Hub
17 / 05 / 2019
Finnair Cargo has appointed Swissport as the terminal operator for its €80m COOL Nordic Cargo Hub at Helsinki Airport, taking…
SIA’s full year cargo revenues up 2.1% in “softening” trade environment
16 / 05 / 2019
Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group saw flown cargo revenue increase by 2.1% in the 2018/19 financial year despite a “softening trade…
Virgin Atlantic Cargo appoints Dsouza as account manager in Melbourne
16 / 05 / 2019
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Bosco Dsouza as account manager, Melbourne, as the airline looks to build on the strong…
SF Airlines plans transpacific expansion with New York freighter
16 / 05 / 2019
Fast-growing express carrier SF Airlines has applied to the US Department of Transportation to launch a scheduled freighter service between…
Avianca sees cargo revenues fall following termination of Etihad partnership
16 / 05 / 2019
Avianca saw cargo revenues decline in the first quarter following the termination of its commercial agreement with Etihad Cargo on…
New Oslo-Beijing service targets seafood
15 / 05 / 2019
Oslo Airport hopes its first non-stop service to Beijing will be a welcome boost for the local seafood market following…
ACS expands in Moscow with new office
15 / 05 / 2019
Charter firm Air Charter Service (ACS) has moved its Moscow operation into a new office space as it looks to…
Astral Aviation maintains humanitarian airlift for cyclone-hit Mozambique
15 / 05 / 2019
Astral Aviation is continuing to operate humanitarian aid flights into Mozambique following the devastating Cyclone Idai in March and Cyclone Kenneth…
Amazon reveals first CGI video of planned Kentucky air hub
15 / 05 / 2019
Amazon yesterday broke ground on its new $1.5bn Air Hub located at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The facility will…
Qatar set to receive four B777Fs this year
15 / 05 / 2019
In an interview with the Gulf Times, Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar al-Baker has confirmed that four of the B777…
They’re off: Champion horses check-in to Emirates Equine
15 / 05 / 2019
Emirates SkyCargo flew 90 horses from Belgium to China on a Boeing 777 freighter for the Shanghai leg of the Longines…
European airports see 1.8% cargo volume decline in Q1 2019
14 / 05 / 2019
Freight traffic at Europe’s airports fell by 1.8% during the first quarter of 2019 although Belgian freighter-friendly hub Liège saw…
WFS and Avinor terminate Oslo seafood centre deal
14 / 05 / 2019
The future of a huge new seafood centre at Oslo airport is hanging in the balance after ground handler Worldwide…
Priority Freight appoints first group head of airfreight
13 / 05 / 2019
Priority Freight has continued to target the air sector with the appointment of its first group head of airfreight, Santiago…
That’s a rap: Cargojet signs up musician Drake as an ambassador
13 / 05 / 2019
It’s not often that the Air Cargo News team has a chance to demonstrate our urban credentials and ‘get down…
Emirates CCO resigns days after profit fall announced
13 / 05 / 2019
Emirates has confirmed that chief commercial officer Thierry Antinori has resigned from his position, where he managed commercial operations and…
Agility sees profits, revenues and airfreight increase
13 / 05 / 2019
Kuwait-based logistics and infrastructure firm Agility saw revenues and profits increase during the first quarter of the year despite a…
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