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Delta looks to ramp up stake in Aeromexico
Delta Air Lines is hoping to increase its shareholding in Aeromexico as it looks to continue to strengthen its presence in the Mexican market.The US airline intends to acquire an additional 32% of the Mexican carrier in order to bring its shareholding up to 49% through a cash tender offer ...
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Etihad celebrates another year of expansion, but cargo volumes remain flat
Etihad Airways has reported on what it describes as “another year of sustained growth” in 2016, expansion achieved off the back of new aircraft deliveries, additional frequencies on various services and the introduction of further product offerings.During the year, Etihad Cargo carried 592,700 tonnes of freight, a figure not dissimilar ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: Strong start to 2017 for United and American
US airlines American and United have got off to a flying start on the cargo front in 2017 with double-digit increases in demand, while Delta continues to see its performance diverge from its two main rivals.The largest of the airlines in cargo terms, United, recorded a 16.1% year-on-year traffic increase ...
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Trump outlines priorities for US aviation
New US president Donald Trump has met with the chief executives of a large number of big US carriers, as well as senior executives of airport authorities and representatives of aviation trade bodies.The meeting took place at The White House, during which he outlined some of his thoughts on the ...
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UK and India to ease flight restrictions
The UK and India have today (February 9) agreed a deal to ease restrictions on the number of scheduled flights between the two countries.The move came on the back of what are described as “successful talks” in India this week, where UK aviation minister Lord Ahmad has been visiting. India’s ...
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IATA looks back at encouraging end to 2016
IATA has produced its latest quarterly Cargo Chartbook, which looks back at the final quarter of last year and, indeed, 2016 as a whole. It also looks ahead to what we can expect this year.Highlights of the report include the fact that global cargo traffic, as measured in freight tonne ...
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Solid year for cargo at Alaska Air
Alaska Air Group’s 2016 results show that it was a solid year in terms of cargo performance for the carrier.The airline’s cargo and mail operations made an operating revenue of $108m over the year, exactly the same as had been the case in 2015.The final quarter’s performance did reflect a ...
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US carrier group backs Open Skies in Middle East subsidy row
As reported in Air Cargo News at the start of this month (February), a number of US legacy passenger airlines have resurrected their complaints to the US Government that they are suffering as a result of Middle Eastern carriers being unfairly subsidised by their state authorities.American Airlines, United and American ...
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NewsJanuary sees airfreight rates continue ahead of 2016 levels
Airfreight rates on key trade lanes continued to track ahead of last year's levels in January, but prices did decline compared with the levels registered in December.The latest figures from TAC Index show that airfreight rates on transpacific services from Hong Kong to the US declined in January to $3.24 ...
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Tip of the iceberg: Air cargo steps in for lettuce crisis
The air cargo industry has seen a spike in demand for shipments of lettuce from North America as bad weather hit crops in Spain.Earlier today, IAG Cargo reported that retailers in the UK were looking to source lettuce and other vegetables from the Americas as a result of a shortage ...
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Singapore Airlines enjoys cargo upswing in third quarter
Singapore Airlines has released traffic and financial performance details for the third quarter of its 2016-17 financial year – the period between October 1 and December 31 2016.Its cargo division enjoyed a rise in freight volumes of 6.6%, boosted by stronger than expected peak season demand. SIA Cargo carried a ...
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Saudia Cargo renews human organ transportation agreement
Saudia Cargo has renewed its commitment to human organ transportation by re-signing its agreement of collaboration with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, a publicly funded organisation that oversees the organ donation process in Saudi Arabia.Faisal Shaheen, the organisation’s director general, re-signed the deal – originally agreed in January 2014 ...
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US carriers seek Tillerson meeting in Gulf states subsidy row
US passenger airline bosses have asked to meet the new US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to discuss allegations that Middle East Gulf states are unfairly subsidising state-owned carriers.This latest move in a long simmering row has seen the chief executives of American Airlines, United and Delta Air Lines post ...
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JAL reveals mixed cargo results
Flag-carrier Japan Airlines (JAL) has revealed its consolidated financial results for the nine months that ended on 31 December last year, and they make for some mixed reading.In terms of its international cargo operations, JAL benefited from the improvement in demand for capacity that the industry enjoyed from the middle ...
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Airlander 10 expected to fly again later this year
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has confirmed that it expects its Airlander 10 airship – the world’s largest aircraft – to fly again in the near future.The Airlander 10, of which HAV is the designer, assembler and owner, suffered a crash landing in August last year during a test flight from ...
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American Airlines gets stuck into the New Zealand market
American Airlines Cargo was recently called upon to carry out a short-notice shipment of world renowned honey from New Zealand.Manuka honey is normally moved by seafreight but last week, on short notice, the airline was called on to carry the product for the first time in order to meet deadlines ...
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Volga-Dnepr steppes up with endangered horse project
The Volga-Dnepr Group has transported 14 Przewalski horses from Hortobágy National Park in Hungary to the Ural steppe of Russia as part of efforts to re-introduce the breed to the area.The horses each travelled from Hungary in their own special horse stall onboard a Boeing 737-400SF freighter operated by Atran ...
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Pharma firms continue drive to seafreight
Pharma shippers are likely to continue to try to move away from a reliance on airfreight but will also look to outsource more of their supply chain operations.Speaking at the Temperature Controlled Logistics event in London, pharmaceutical company Teva’s senior director, logistics Europe, Val Petursson, said that he viewed using ...
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Cargo waiting in the wings as Lufthansa and Etihad partnership focuses on catering and MRO
Lufthansa and UAE national carrier Etihad have signed a non-equity partnership with an initial focus on in-flight catering and aircraft maintenance, although cargo is not on the menu at this stage.Etihad Aviation Group president and chief executive officer James Hogan, and Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa Group chairman and chief executive, signed ...
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Take part: State of the air cargo industry annual survey
Every year Air Cargo News carries out a survey of logistics and airfreight professionals to understand how they think the air cargo industry will develop over the coming years.The survey provides the air cargo industry with an opportunity to tell us how you think the industry is changing.The survey takes ...