All Airlines Articles – Page 256
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Dragonair to take on KL route from Cathay Pacific
Dragonair is to operate services to Kuala Lumpur in March next year, taking over responsibility for the route from sister carrier Cathay Pacific.It will fly four times a day from its Hong Kong hub, the new services being phased in between March and May.Kuala Lumpur will become Dragonair’s third destination ...
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NewsWorld's Top 75 Cargo Airports 2015
Air Cargo News has put together a list of the world's top 75 busiest cargo airports in 2015. See below.
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Swiss to suspend Istanbul connection but seeks to continue serving the Turkish cargo market
Swiss International Air Lines has confirmed that it will cut its double daily Zurich-Istanbul Ataturk service from the beginning of this year’s winter schedule.According to a spokesperson for the carrier: “SWISS has decided to remove Istanbul from its programme with effect from winter 2016/17. All our destinations are subject to ...
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LATAM freight traffic on the slide
LATAM Cargo, the freight wing of Latin American carrier LATAM, flew 274m cargo ton miles in July, down by 9.5% on the same month of 2015.With capacity as measured by available ton kilometres down by 6.4% year on year, the cargo load factor also declined – by 1.6 percentage points ...
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Air France-KLM Cargo struck by difficult July
In July, Air France-KLM Cargo flew 700m revenue cargo tonne kilometres, 6.7% than in the same month of last year.With capacity down by 3.2% year on year to 1.26bn cargo tonne kilometres, the load factor also deteriorated, by 2.1 percentage points to 55.5%.July’s performance is really only more of the ...
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American Airlines enjoys healthy July traffic
American Airlines Cargo flew 190.5m cargo ton miles in July, up by 5.7% on the same month of 2015.Over the first seven months of the year, the carrier flew a total of 1.35bn cargo ton miles, representing a year on year improvement of 1.2%.North America rival United Airlines reported similarly ...
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UPS rolls out Worldwide Express Freight offering to another nine countries
Integrator UPS has extended its Worldwide Express Freight service to a further nine countries across North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Indian sub-continent.New to the network for UPS’s dedicated service for urgent, time-sensitive and high-value international heavy shipments of over 70kg are Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Malta, Morocco, Pakistan, ...
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Finnair Cargo reaches the heights in July
Finnair Cargo flew 12,925 tonnes of cargo in July, up by 15.9% on the same month of last year.The cargo load factor was 59%, a rise of 2.7% on July 2015.Over the course of the first seven months of this year, Finnair Cargo carried 83,925 tonnes of cargo, representing an ...
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Emirates continues to expand A380 coverage
Following hard on the heels of its announcement that it will move to an all-Airbus A380 operation on its Dubai – Manchester route, Dubai-based Emirates Airline has confirmed that it is to operate the super-jumbo on its connection between Dubai and Guangzhou from October 1.This latest announcement also follows the ...
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Lufthansa Cargo seals the deal on time:matters
Lufthansa Cargo has completed its planned acquisition of time:matters, the time-critical international delivery specialist that it span off as a subsidiary in 2002 but in which it retained a 49% share.The 51% balance has now been acquired from investor Aheim Capital and time:matters’ own management team.In late July, Air Cargo ...
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ATSG sees Q2 revenues jump thanks to Amazon operation
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) continued to benefit from its new freighter contract with Amazon as both revenues and net earnings increased during the second quarter.The Wilmington, Ohio-based provider of medium wide-body freighter aircraft leasing saw second quarter revenues increase by 19% year on year to $176.5m, while net earnings ...
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Emirates to move to an all-A380 Manchester connection
Emirates has confirmed that it is to move to an all-A380 operation on the service connecting its home hub of Dubai to Manchester.As of January 1 next year, the Boeing 777-300ER link currently flown as the third daily frequency to Manchester will instead be operated by A380, as are already ...
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Lufthansa Cargo adds ‘myAirCargo’ service
Lufthansa Cargo, the freight operation of German’s flag-carrier, has launched its new offering for individual customers sending large goods by air.The myAirCargo service can be booked online, is door-to-door and includes all customs formalities being taken care of by the carrier.It is expected to be particularly useful for sporting equipment ...
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Delta lifts ground stop but warns of continuing delays
UPDATE: Delta Air Lines has said it is beginning to re-start flights after it was forced to make large-scale cancellations this morning as a result of a power outage in Atlanta.The US airline first issued a warning at 5am (eastern seaboard) this morning warning that flights would be delayed.In its ...
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Cargo revenues down at ANA as currency and oversupply hit results
ANA's cargo business recorded a double-digit decline in airfreight revenues during its first fiscal quarter despite an increase in traffic.During its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, the Japanese carrier saw airfreight demand increase 16.2% year on year to 1.1bn freight tonne km, while revenues declined by 23.6% on a ...
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NewsAsian cargo monthly: Airlines see return to growth in June
Asian airlines reported improving airfreight demand in June with Cathay Pacific citing a half-year rush and a surge in exports from the Americas.The largest cargo carrier in the region, Cathay Pacific, saw cargo demand increase by 4.8% year-on-year in June to 876m cargo and mail tonne km (CMT).This is the ...
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Emirates update on flight delays and cancellations
Operations at Dubai International Airport resumed on Wednesday at 1830 local time following the crash landing of a Boeing 777 passenger aircraft belonging to the airline at the Middle East hub.More information on Emirates flights will be available on the Emirates website and social media channels.All 282 passengers and 18 ...
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Airfreight demand on the increase but still outpaced by capacity rise
Global airfreight demand in June saw a 4.3% year-on-year rise in freight tonne km (FTK), the fastest pace of growth in 14 months.However, freight capacity measured in available freight tonne km (AFTKs) increased by 4.9% year-on-year, keeping yields under downward pressure.According to the latest monthly market analysis by airline association ...
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Update: Dubai International flights suspended following crash landing
Dubai Airports has confirmed that all operations (arrivals and departures) at Dubai International have been suspended until further notice following crash landing of Emirates airline flight EK521 this morning.In a statement, Emirates said that all 282 passengers and 18 crew on board the Boeing 777 aircraft are “accounted for and ...
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Airfreight rates pick up in June thanks to increases in fuel prices
Airfreight rates reached their highest level in seven months in June following on from improved demand performance for the month and higher fuel prices.The latest airfreight figures from Drewry’s Shipper Insight Report show that prices climbed to $2.75 per kg in June from $2.61 in May to reach their highest ...