All Airlines Articles – Page 236
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Virgin Atlantic's Steve Buckerfield - Like father, like son
A young Steve Buckerfield sampled his first taste of the air cargo business when his father Chris took him to the Seaboard World Airlines offices at Heathrow on a Saturday morning.Those first glances of a glistening Boeing 747 freighter on the tarmac and playing with the telex paper tape in ...
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Drew Crawley: Sofa so good for IAG
When you change jobs it can sometimes take a while to settle into life at a new company.One thing helping IAG Cargo’s recently appointed chief executive Drew Crawley feel a bit more at home in his new office is a giant blue sofa.He explains that his wife was arranging to ...
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Flydubai renews with Mercator
Flydubai has renewed its contract with Mercator to provide a cargo platform for the end-to-end management of air cargo operations and cargo revenue accounting.The seven-year contract extension expands on the existing platform as flydubai will also have access to Mercator's Intelligent Cargo Ecosystem.This is an open API portfolio of air ...
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IATA calls for cargo transformation
At the 73rd IATA General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Cancun, Mexico, a resolution has been adopted to “accelerate the modernisation and transformation of the air cargo industry” through a customer-centric approach.Measures covered by the resolution include digitisation of the supply chain for instant information sharing to improve ...
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India-Afghanistan cargo flights take-off
The first air cargo service between India and Afghanistan was launched today by Ariana Afghan Airlines.Indian ambassador to Afghanistan Manpreet Vohra confirmed on his twitter account that the first return flight was set to leave Kabul for Delhi today.The service will bypass the land crossing between the two countries via ...
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Pilot project speeds cargo transport between Frankfurt and Schiphol
A new pilot project between various users of Schiphol airport has sped up the transport of cargo between Germany and the Dutch airport by as much as two hours.As part of the Smart Cargo Mainport Program a data sharing project has been created for shipments between Air France KLM’s Frankfurt ...
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Cargolux 2025 - building flexibility and developing digitisation
Cargolux’s new strategic plan will concentrate on building a more flexible fleet whilst the carrier will also embark on a wholesale digitisation project.Speaking shortly after the Luxembourg-based carrier announced an “industry first” tie-up with Emirates SkyCargo, president and chief executive Richard Forson said the new strategic plan, named Cargolux 2025, ...
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Emirates-Cargolux partnership underway as new Luxembourg flight touches down
Emirates SkyCargo has flown its first scheduled weekly freighter service to Luxembourg as part of its new partnership with Cargolux.The Dubai-based airline's freighter operation between Luxembourg and Dubai World Central is one of the first steps in the implementation of the strategic operational partnership with Cargolux Airlines announced in May ...
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Avolon snaps up CIT Group’s aviation leasing business
Avolon Holdings, the Ireland-based international aircraft leasing company, has announced the completion of its acquisition of the aircraft leasing business of CIT Group Inc.The deal doubles Avolon’s size and creates the world’s third largest aircraft leasing platform.Avolon now serves 149 customers in 62 countries.The combined business had an owned fleet ...
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Qatar Airways comments on benefit of wildlife declaration
Qatar Airways was one of the 40 signatories to the United for Wildlife declaration who met on March 16 at Buckingham Palace in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Hague to add its weight to the other carriers and cargo industry players who agree on the need ...
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Lufthansa Cargo gets seal of approval from German Equestrian Federation
Lufthansa Cargo is to become a ‘Premium Partner’ of the German Equestrian Federation (known by its international name as Federation Equestre Nationale (FN) an umbrella organisation for Germany’s breeders and horse riders.The partnership is said to include long-term cooperation and cover such activities as joint marketing and various projects connected ...
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Wild horses not holding Atran Airlines back
As part of an effort to recreate a population of a particularly rare breed of horse called Przewalski’s horse back in its natural habitat on the Central Asian and Mongolian steppes, Atran Airlines has flown 14 of the animals from their previous home in Hungary to Orenburg in southern Russia.The ...
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IAG Cargo marks World Wildlife Day with ‘jumbo’ donation
To celebrate World Wildlife Day IAG Cargo has released two images of Kenyan-based orphaned elephants which received a donation of airline blankets from the cargo operator, keeping the young elephants warm during the winter months.More than 400 blankets were donated at the end of last year to the David Sheldrick ...
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Qatar rolls out red carpet for equine athletes
Qatar Airways Cargo has flown 100 of the world’s finest equine athletes to Doha for the annual Chi Al Shaqab event on 2-4 March.Chi Al Shaqab consists of three days of jumping, dressage and para-dressage, where the world’s best horses and riders battle for one of the most coveted titles ...
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First class for four-legged superstars
Qatar Airways Cargo was entrusted with the task of flying 50 of the finest European horses to compete at the Longines FEI World Cup Jumping and Dressage Finals.The equine guests travelled on board a Boeing 777 freighter from Schiphol to Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, and received world-class treatment and ...
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Coyne Airways steps in on urgent animal shipment
Scheduled and charter cargo services provider Coyne Airways has handled the movement of an exotic collection of animals from Amsterdam to Tbilisi.A tiger, seven red-neck wallabies, six Barbary sheep, and 24 African penguins were flown from the Dutch capital to the Georgian capital on April 2 on board a Boeing ...
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American Airlines Cargo adds international pet discount for US military
American Airlines Cargo is expanding its military discount programme to include the transport of personal pets to and from all international origins and destinations in recognition of Military Family Appreciation Month.In May, US military personnel looking to transport pets will enjoy a 50% discount off published rates for all international ...
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SkyCargo transports champion show jumpers
Dubai-headquartered Emirates SkyCargo transported almost 100 show jumping horses from Liège in Belgium to compete in the first three legs of the Longines Global Champions Tour in Mexico City, Miami and Shanghai between March 31 and May 2 2017, on board 10 Boeing 777 freighter flights.The horses, which weighed between ...
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VIDEO: Emirates SkyCargo transports UAE designed sports car
Emirates SkyCargo has transported the first car designed and built entirely in the UAE to France where it will be exhibited during the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race.Emirates SkyCargo worked with forwarder Prodex worldwide to transport the car, named Design-1, from Dubai to Lyon.The sports car designed and built ...
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NewsIAG Cargo traffic up on shipping disruption but revenues slide
IAG Cargo saw revenues decline in the first quarter of the year due to challenging market conditions but it registered an improvement in traffic partly driven by container shipping disruption.The cargo arm of IAG, which owns British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, recorded a 2.3% year-on-year decrease in first-quarter cargo ...