All Airlines Articles – Page 258
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Singapore Airlines to fly direct to Manchester
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is to offer a non-stop passenger aircraft connection between Singapore and the UK’s Manchester Airport from late October 2016.The non-stop Singapore–Manchester service will be operated five times a week from October 30. The aircraft will then continue on to Houston, which is currently served by SIA via ...
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Alitalia flies back into Beijing
The inaugural of Alitalia new direct service to Beijing took off from Rome Fiumicino Airport on 28 July.The Italian flag-carrier suspended its Beijing connection three years ago, but the four times a week A330 service is being regarded by the airline as a significant step forward.Alitalia’s chief executive, Cramer Ball, ...
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Emirates moves to A380 on a second of its three Milan services
On 1 October, Emirates will switch from a Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) aircraft to A380 equipment on the second of its three daily links to Milan.Currently, the Dubai-based carrier operates two daily B777 services and one daily A380 link to northern Italy’s industrial capital. From the start of October, it ...
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Lufthansa downgrades profit expectations
German flag-carrier Lufthansa has reported provisional figures that suggest the airline made revenue of €15bn (S16.6bn) in the first half of this year, down from the January – June 2015 figure of €15.4bn ($17bn).Its adjusted EBIT (earnings before interest and taxation) of €529m ($584m) earned in the first half of ...
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DOT gives provisional nod to four US carriers on Haneda daytime connections
The US transportation secretary, Anthony Foxx, has given its initial green light to four US airlines to provide new daytime services to Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport.The carriers – American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines – are seeking to make their various Haneda connections from Los Angeles, ...
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Boeing lays emphasis on Indian aviation market for new aircraft sales
According to the latest Current Market Outlook (CMO) produced by US manufacturing giant Boeing and as revealed in a briefing on 19 July, its experts are predicting that India will require 1,850 new aircraft to be delivered over the course of the next 20 years.Those purchases would be valued at ...
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United’s cargo revenue on the slide
United Airlines made $208m in cargo-based operating revenue in the second quarter of this year, down by 9.2% from the $229m made in the three months ending 30 June 2015.Over the first half of this year, the US carrier made $402m in cargo-based operating revenue, down by 14.6% on the ...
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Cargolux aircraft carry key client names
Cargolux has begun adding the name and logo of key customers to the livery of its freighter aircraft, along with a ‘Powered By’ legend.Three Cargolux Boeing 747 freighters already carry the added branding of a major customer. More client names will appear on other aircraft of the fleet in the ...
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Brussels Airlines suffers decline in freight load factor in June
Brussels Airlines’ freight load factor decreased year on year by four percentage points in June, falling from 68% to 64%.It was an improvement on the previous month, however; May’s freight load factor was 63%.The year on year decline, a statement said, was mainly attributable to changes in the carrier’s cargo ...
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Air France-KLM opens new cargo facility at JFK
Franco-Dutch airline venture Air France-KLM Cargo has opened the doors to its improved freight handling facility at New York’s biggest and busiest airfreight gateway, JFK.The upgraded facility can handle a wide range of freight types, including pharmaceuticals, valuables, live animals and express shipments, in addition to general cargo.It incorporates discrete ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo flies into Halifax and New York
Qatar Airways Cargo has launched new freighter services to New York JFK and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.The service to New York and Halifax will operate on a weekly frequency, flying out of Luxembourg, the cargo carrier’s European hub, every Wednesday.A Boeing 777-200 freighter offering 103 tonnes of cargo capacity will ...
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Lockheed hails Bravo aircraft deal
Brazilian-US defence and logistics group Bravo Industries signed a deal to buy ten Lockheed Martin LM-100J Super Hercules commercial freighters at today’s Farnborough Air Show in the UK.Bravo’s Logística division, which consists of Bravo Cargas and Bravo MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul), will operate the LM-100J in Brazil.Bravo’s president and ...
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Turkish restarts flights to the US as FAA lifts restrictions
Following the decision on Monday 18 July of America’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to withdraw its prohibition on carriers flying into the country either directly or via a third country from Turkey, the latter’s flag-carrier moved quickly to relaunch flights into the US.All scheduled flights to the US operated by ...
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Lufthansa Cargo: much more than just the ‘basic’ offering
Lufthansa Cargo is to begin offering a new product for the shipping of general air cargo from September this year.To be called td.Basic and only available via online booking, the German freight-carrier said that it will offer “high Lufthansa quality at extremely attractive prices”.Those ‘attractive prices’ will be made possible ...
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NewsMarket analysis: North America
After the boom in demand for freighters experienced in 2015 as US west coast seaport workers launched industrial action, 2016 was always going to suffer in comparison, writes Damian Brett.Nonetheless, there has been plenty for the freighter industry based in North America to get excited about, with a new face ...
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Video: Need for speed drives e-commerce growth says IAG Cargo
IAG Cargo has seen “enormous growth” in e-commerce traffic in the past five years, says manager of global products, Daniel Johnson, in the latest of the carrier’s ‘talking head’ videos.The airline is moving goods ordered online for retailers such as Amazon and Asos, not only to the consumer, but often ...
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Terrorism and falling yields dent airline confidence
Airline finance chiefs and heads of cargo said that they do not expect profits to improve over the next 12 months, according to IATA’s latest quarterly survey of airline business confidence.The results, based on a survey carried out in early July, also show that industry profitability fell slightly year-on-year during ...
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Cathay cargo up in June but half year trend is down
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried 151,130 tonnes of cargo and mail in June, an increase of 7.1% compared to the same month last year.Load factor rose by 1.6 percentage points to 64.3% as capacity increased by only 2.1% while cargo and mail revenue tonne kilometres increased by 4.8%. But over ...
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IATA and FIATA hail partnership of equals in new-look agency programme
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) have unveiled long-awaited reforms to the IATA Cargo Agency Program, promising to treat forwarders as equals alongside airlines.Following a review initiated in 2012, the new IATA-FIATA Air Cargo Program (IFACP), signed today by IATA director ...
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BA cabin crew balloted on possible walk-out
British Airways cabin crew are being balloted on possible strike action in a dispute over a new 'performance' scheme, says the Unite trade union.It affects staff operating the European and long haul fleets and will open on Thursday 21 July and will close on Wednesday 17 August.A consultative ballot has ...