All Airlines Articles – Page 253
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Air cargo needs to be faster, cheaper and more innovative
Air cargo operations of the future will need to be faster, offer better data integration, improve the quality of service and offer lower costs than today’s offerings.Speaking at freight forwarder association Fiata’s World Congress event, United Airlines vice president cargo sales Jacques Leijssenaar took on the question of what businesses ...
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African airlines set up cargo group
The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) has launched a cargo steering committee to provide greater focus on the continent's airfreight business.Egyptair vice president of cargo operations Walaa Yousri was elected chairman and Astral Aviation chief executive Sanjeev Gadhia vice chairman of the new grouping. Yousri said that the new committee would ...
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Air cargo should see China-Europe rail services as added competition
The air cargo industry should see the proliferation of rail services between China and Europe as added competition.Speaking on the side lines of the Fiata World Congress in Dublin, Ivan Petrov, chief executive of forwarder TransXpress and Fiata senior vice president, said that the number of rail services between Asia ...
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Lufthansa moves in with Cathay in Hong Kong
Lufthansa Cargo has moved its Hong Kong freight handling operation to Cathay Pacific’s terminal as part of its joint business agreement with the Far Eastern carrier.The move would give customers of both carriers a single location for export drop-off and import delivery arrangements, it said.Both carriers are now working closely ...
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Cargolux signs deal for high-tech containers
Cargolux Airlines has signed a global rental agreement to use va-Q-tec’s advanced passive containers for its temperature-sensitive pharma shipments. The system uses phase change material and vacuum insulation panels that absorb and store thermal energy during freezing or heating to maintain the required storage temperature during transport.One of the first ...
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Singapore signs Zodiac for airfreight container deal
Zodiac Aerospace is to supply more than 2,000 of its Herculight S AKE cargo containers to Singapore Airlines Cargo. The containers, constructed with a combination of composite and aluminium panels, come in two configurations to suit passenger or cargo operations.One of the airline’s key requirements was toughness and durability, said ...
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Air cargo forum told of better times ahead
The first 15 years of the century have not been kind to the air cargo industry – but there could be better times ahead, the Neutral Air Partners (NAP) forum in Abu Dhabi has heard.Airline and forwarder delegates to the first ever NAP gathering learned from Etihad Cargo Airlines commercial ...
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Load factors at historic lows, says IATA
Global freight tonne kilometres (FTKs) rose 3.9% year-on-year in August but available FTKs rose even faster, by 4.1%, leading to historically low load factors and keeping yields under pressure, said IATA in its latest report.Industry conditions have improved since the particularly soft patch at the start of the year said ...
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IAG woos high tech firms
International Airlines Group (IAG) has launched an accelerator programme for new high-tech companies in partnership with corporate innovation specialist and early-stage investor, L Marks.Start-ups are invited to pitch to join the new venture, Hangar 51, and work with the airline group to find solutions to business challenges through collaborative partnerships. ...
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NewsAsian Cargo Monthly: Southern sees demand slide while rivals grow
Air cargo demand at the leading Asia-based carriers continued to improve in August, although China Southern suffered a dip in form.Of the seven carriers included in the Air Cargo News monthly round-up, six managed to recorded an improvement in air cargo traffic during August as demand continued to pick up ...
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Air Canada Cargo looks forward to raft of new destinations
Air Canada has announced that it is to add six new destinations to its network next year.The Air Canada summer 2017 schedule will include the following new long-haul connections: Toronto – Mumbai; Vancouver – Taipei (subject to government approvals); Toronto – Berlin; and Vancouver – Nagoya, as well as seasonal ...
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Good news for Garuda
Indonesian flag-carrier Garuda enjoyed an impressive 22.5% year on year increase in its cargo volumes in August, reaching a figure of 34,350 tons.The cargo load factor increased by 7.85 percentage points compared to August 2015 to reach 51.8%.Over the course of the January – August period, Garuda carried a total ...
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Qatar Airways flies into Windhoek
Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, has become the latest city on the expanding network of Doha-based Qatar Airways.The carrier is going to fly the route to its first Namibian connection from its hub at Doha with a Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’ four times a week.Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar Al ...
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Lufthansa to acquire balance of Brussels Airlines
German flag-carrier Lufthansa has confirmed that it intends to exercise its call option to acquire the remaining 55% of shares in SN Airholding, parent company of Lufthansa Group member Brussels Airlines, that it doesn’t currently hold.SN Airholding is a Belgian holding consisting of over 30 shareholders concentrated on the air ...
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Oman Air looks to the future
Oman Air’s chief executive, Paul Gregorowitsch, this week laid out his plans for the airline’s growth in coming years, as well as reporting on “important progress (achieved) over the last two years”.He pointed to the fact that the Muscat-based carrier is “delivering an ambitious and dynamic programme of fleet and ...
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Jetstar Asia appoints ECS as its GSA
Singapore-headquartered low-cost carrier (LCC) Jetstar Asia has appointed ECS Group Asia Pacific as its general sales agent (GSA) for the airline’s freight business through Singapore Changi Airport and the 25 stations across its network in Asia.Effective as of 22 October, ECS will look to boost Jetstar Asia’s freight sales to ...
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Brussels Airlines to fly to Yerevan
Brussels Airlines has confirmed that on March 31 next year it will begin flying to the Armenian capital of Yerevan.The airline will operate A319/320 aircraft on the route from the Belgian capital once a week, except in the months of July and August when the lane will be flown twice ...
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Saudia on an upward trajectory
Sulaiman Alhamdan, the chairman of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), has confirmed that over the course of the last two years, the airline ordered a total of 113 aircraft, some of which are already in delivery.Fifty Airbus aircraft (A320s and A330) were order last year, some of which have since been ...
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Air Canada to fly to Shanghai from Montreal
Air Canada has confirmed that it is to launch daily year-round flights from Montreal to Shanghai on February 16 next year.The connection will represent the carrier’s first direct link to China from Montreal, as well as the first use of Air Canada Boeing 787-8 ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft on services out of ...
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Emirates flies A380 Amman connection
On 25 September, Emirates flew one of its A380 super-jumbos for the first time on its Dubai – Amman connection.Just a one-off flight for now, the world’s biggest passenger aircraft flew into Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) in the Jordanian capital.However, Adel Al Redha, Emirates’ executive vice president and chief ...