All Airlines Articles – Page 242
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Virgin overcomes headwinds
Virgin Atlantic Cargo saw 2016 freight volumes rise 1.8% in a challenging market, carrying 218,000 tonnes across its international network.It was helped by a 2016 strong second half and high peak season demand, although volume growth was offset by price pressure, in turn driven by overcapacity and the weak Pound.December’s ...
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Virgin marks Seattle debut
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport welcomed Virgin Atlantic founder, Sir Richard Branson and airline chief executive Craig Kreeger to a ceremony to mark the carrier’s new service. Virgin’s daily Boeing 787-9 flight replaces a 767 service by Delta Air Lines.John Creighton, commissioner at the airport operator, the Port of Seattle said: “This ...
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DHL adds US to Singapore e-commerce offering
DHL’s eCommerce division has launched a new service for Singapore-based online merchants, manufacturers and traditional retailers to ship their products to US consumers, for shipments up to 6.5kg.Parcel International Direct US offers an international shipping option with end-to-end tracking and a transit time of 4-6 business days. Inline retailers can ...
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Cathay extends Lufthansa cooperation
Cathay Pacific has signed a wide-ranging codeshare agreement with the Lufthansa Group. It covers flights operated by Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian Airlines to destinations in continental Europe and for four of the Asian airline’s destinations in the Southwest Pacific.Under the agreement, Cathay Pacific will offer 14 new destinations in Germany, ...
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Western Global flies to aid of stricken islanders
Western Global Airlines has joined forces with Network Airline Management and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to fly relief into cyclone-hit Madagascar. On March 17, the carrier, based at Estero in Southwest Florida, airlifted 175,000 pounds of humanitarian supplies from Liège, Belgium, to Ivato International Airport in the capital ...
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American set to take stake in China Southern
American Airlines could take a stake in China Southern Airlines, according to press reports. The state-owned Chinese carrier, one of the country’s largest, said the deal could also involve other forms of cooperation, but was subject to shareholder and government approval.In a statement, China Southern said it was negotiating “a ...
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NewsAsia Cargo Monthly: Demand takes off in February
Asian air cargo carriers recorded a demand boom in February, with Cathay Pacific citing improvements in imports from North America and Europe.The latest monthly figures from some of Asia’s leading airlines show high single-digit and double-digit year-on-year demand improvements in February, usually the slowest month of the year.The region’s busiest ...
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Carriers see Europe-Asia demand surge as box lines feel a capacity pinch
A surge in airfreight demand on the Europe-Asia trade has seen IAG Cargo suggest that a capacity crunch in ocean shipping is forcing shippers and forwarders to switch transport modes.IAG Cargo said that it had seen a boom in demand on key routes from Europe into Asia over the first ...
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IAM and American Airlines Cargo step up in time of crisis!
March 17 is St Patrick’s Day, and one of the most important days in the Irish calendar requires celebrating on both sides of the Atlantic.American Airlines Cargo's general sales agent in Dublin – IAM – sprang into action to ensure that expats and locals alike could enjoy their traditional tipple ...
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FAA forecasts 3.1% average total annual RTM growth for next 20 years
US aviation regulator FAA has issued its long term forecast for domestic and international cargo revenue ton miles (RTMs) over the next 20 years.After decreasing by 0.9% in 2016, total RTMs are forecast to grow 1.4% in 2017, said the FAA in its its annual Aerospace Forecast Report Fiscal Years ...
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Dig-it-isation for Lufthansa Cargo's new Cool Center
Lufthansa Cargo has started construction work on a new Cool Center at its Frankfurt hub. Sören Stark, board member operations, said during the ground-breaking ceremony: “We’ve gained a great deal of experience in the worldwide transport of sensitive medications. CEIV certification from IATA has recently highlighted this. “The excellent collaboration ...
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Air France KLM Cargo to add five new destinations for the summer
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AF KLM) has announced it will add five new destinations to its schedule this summer.The Franco Dutch airline group has revealed that from March 26, it will begin offering cargo capacity to Accra in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone, Monrovia in Liberia, Cartagena in Colombia ...
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American Airlines Cargo appoints new head of Florida, Caribbean and Latin America
American Airlines Cargo has announced the appointment of Lorena Sandoval as managing director of its Florida, Caribbean and Latin America (FCLA) division.She takes over from Carmen Taylor who retired from the airline at the end of 2016. Sandoval joined the carrier 26 years ago in Quito, Ecuador, and has held ...
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NewsEuropean Cargo Monthly: Another mixed month for carriers
February was another mixed month for Europe’s cargo airlines as Lufthansa and IAG recorded improvements in demand, while there was a decline at Finnair and Air France KLM.Despite an extra day in February 2016 due to it being a leap year, the continent’s busiest carrier Lufthansa registered a 5.2% year-on-year ...
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Lufthansa and Vereinigung Cockpit reach a deal
Lufthansa and the German pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) have reached an agreement regarding what the former describes as “all previously unresolved collective bargaining matters”.Lufthansa and VC had been in dispute for some time, leading to strikes on more than one occasion last year, before the two agreed to mediation.In ...
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EC re-adopts punitive decision on airfreight cartel
The European Commission (EC) has re-adopted a cartel decision previously made against 11 air cargo carriers and imposed a fine totalling more than €776m for operating a price-fixing cartel.The Commission’s original decision had been annulled by the European Union’s General Court on procedural grounds.Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition ...
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Lufthansa reveals tough times for cargo operations
Lufthansa, the German flag-carrier, has released details of its 2016 financial performance, within which are a number of indicators pertaining specifically to its logistics business.As well as marketing the freight capacities of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines’, Eurowings’ and Austrian Airlines’ passenger aircraft, Lufthansa Cargo operates its fleet of freighter aircraft, comprising ...
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Alitalia board gives the green light to 2017-21 business plan
The board of directors of Italian flag-carrier Alitalia has approved the airline’s turnaround business plan, which is said to include a range of “radical and necessary measures” required to stabilise and secure Alitalia’s long-term sustainability.Funding of the 2017-21 business plan by the company’s shareholders remains subject to Alitalia’s trade unions ...
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Cathay Pacific reveals encouraging February cargo performance
The latest figures from Cathay Pacific Airways show that its Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carriers handled a significant increase in cargo and mail in February compared to the same month of 2016.The two airlines carried a total of 137,674 tonnes of cargo and mail last month, an increase of ...
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Brussels Airlines makes profit despite headwinds
Despite the terrorist attack on Brussels Airport of 22 March last year and what it describes as “strong low-cost competition”, Brussels Airlines made a profit last year.It achieved a net profit of€ 15m euro, after a deduction of €2.5m – money that the airline will redistribute to its staff in ...