All Airlines Articles – Page 238
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Management changes at Emirates
Dubai-headquartered Emirates Airline has made three personnel changes to key commercial and cargo management positions in the Middle East, effective June 1, 2017.The carrier has appointed Abbas A Haji as vice president hub operations for SkyCargo in the UAE. His role encompasses the management of Emirates SkyCargo’s hub operations at ...
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Southwest appoints new director of cargo sales
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has appointed Steve Langhart to the post of director of cargo sales.The role covers leading the carrier’s cargo sales team, including field, national and inside sales, as well as responsibility for all business development efforts.Since joining Southwest in 2008, Langhart has held positions including manager of ramp ...
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Robert Agnew to chair Atlas Air Worldwide board
New York-headquartered freighter operator Atlas Air Worldwide has appointed Robert Agnew (president and chief executive of international aviation consultancy Morten Beyer & Agnew) to the position of chairman of its board of directors.He succeeds retired Marine Corps Lt Gen Frederick McCorkle, who served as chairman since 2014 and will continue ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo ups New York services
At the end of May, Virgin Atlantic Cargo launched new daily flights from Manchester in northern England to New York – taking its total services to and from the US east coast destination to seven per day, seven times a week.The carrier also flies from London Heathrow to New York ...
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Ethiopian continues humanitarian collaboration with Boeing
Ethiopian Airlines has flown 6.5 tons of humanitarian relief cargo from Seattle to Ethiopia on behalf of Conscience International (CI), Horn of Africa Neonatal Development Services and Seattle Alliance Outreach (SAO).The carrier picked up the shipment, bound for St Paul’s Hospital and Bahir Dar University College of Medicine & Health ...
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Royal Air Maroc and Etihad sign cargo MoU
On 29 May in Casablanca, Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Etihad Airways signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint development of their cargo activities.A RAM statement described the two airlines’ networks as “complementary” and, as such, offering potential for commercial synergies. Through its partnership with Etihad Airways Cargo, ...
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AirBridgeCargo records 17% volume growth in Q1
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) recorded a volume improvement of 17% during the first quarter of the year as the carrier continued to expand its network and benefited from market growth.The carrier saw volumes for the three month period reach 158,000 tonnes, while its load factor touched 70%.ABC has been busy expanding ...
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Hainan’s third Kung Fu Panda Dreamliner takes to the sky
A third Hainan Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has received a Kung Fu Panda “makeover” as the carrier continues its collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.The aircraft’s inaugural flight – launching a new daily service from Haikou to Beijing – took place on May 29, in celebration of the carrier’s 24th anniversary. Among ...
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Volga-Dnepr keeps Baffinland iron ore production on track
Russia-based all-cargo carrier Voga-Dnepr Airlines carried out 20 Ilyushin IL-76TD-90VD freighter flights over four weeks beginning at the start of April, moving heavy-duty trucks and trailers from North Bay to Mary River in North Baffin, Nunavut, Canada on behalf of Baffinland Iron Mines.Baffinland had ordered extra trucks and trailers in ...
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NewsAsian Cargo Monthly: Demand flies in April
Asian airlines continued their run of success on the cargo demand front in April, with the region’s major carriers all registering traffic growth on a like-for-like basis.The region’s largest cargo carrier, Cathay Pacific, saw cargo traffic increase by 6.2% in April to 907m cargo and mail tonne km. The increase ...
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IAG to dispatch cargo as priority after IT failure
IAG Cargo has "made good progress" in flying customer bookings affected by an IT outage over the weekend.The cargo division said that it had experienced "significant operational disruption" on May 27 after the airline group faced IT issues causing the cancellation of thousands of flights and affecting around 75,000 passengers.IAG ...
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Virgin links Melbourne and Hong Kong
Virgin Atlantic Cargo is to offer 14 tonnes of cargo capacity on new five-times-a-week Airbus A330 services between Melbourne and Hong Kong that its partner, Virgin Australia, will launch on 5 July.“Hong Kong is an important and growing market for companies in Australia, with over 21.5m kilos of air cargo ...
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Qatar Airways expands pharma network
Doha-based Qatar Airways has added Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Dublin (Republic of Ireland) to its pharma network, bringing the total number of destinations covered to 73. Operations to Colombo began on 15 May, while Dublin is due to become active on 12 June with the launch of the carrier’s Boeing ...
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ABC moves eROSITA telescope
Russian all-cargo carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has transported the eROSITA X-ray telescope from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics near Munich to the premises of the Russian aerospace company, Lavochkin Association, in Moscow.The movement of the highly sensitive cargo was carried out in partnership with integrator DHL. Ensuring the ...
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NewsCost cutting continues at Asian airlines despite traffic growth
Airlines based in the Asia Pacific region enjoyed cargo traffic growth of 9% in April as export orders from the region continued to surge, but carriers continue to cut costs to meet rising costs.The latest figures from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) (see table at end of article) ...
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Tracking tracksuits: Rugby kit to be monitored for flight to New Zealand
British & Irish Lions rugby kit and equipment being flown out to New Zealand will be monitored by tracking technology originally developed to protect fine art and pharmaceutical products.Five sensors, provided by insurer QBE, will be sent out with the rugby kit that can record location, pressure changes, light exposure, ...
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Airfreight rates continue to rise in April
Airfreight rates improved again in April led by improvements on services from Asia to North America.The latest Sea and Air Shipper Insight report from Drewry, which uses a weighted average of buy rates across 21 trade lanes, showed that average east-west airfreight prices increased by 7.9% year on year in ...
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NewsEuropean Cargo Monthly: Another busy month for European carriers
April proved to be another good month for some of Europe’s major airlines as increases in cargo traffic were recorded at Lufthansa, Air France KLM and IAG.The latest monthly stats from Lufthansa, the largest of the three in cargo terms, show a 6% year-on-year improvement in traffic for April to ...
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NewsAmerican cargo monthly: US carriers see demand fly as rates improve
The three major US carriers continued to record rapid increases in cargo demand in April and sources have indicated that rates are also now starting to pick up.The latest figures from United, American and Delta show that all three carriers registered an improvement in demand during the month.The largest of ...
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SIA Cargo to be "re-integrated" into the parent group
SIA Cargo is to be "re-integrated" into the parent airline, in a “business as usual” move intended “to improve efficiency through greater synergy with the wider SIA Group".The wholly-owned cargo subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (SIA) will become the cargo division within the parent group and the transition is expected to ...