All Bellyhold Airline Articles – Page 19
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NewsSaudia Cargo transports 67 race cars to Formula-E Championship
For the second year in a row, Saudia Cargo successfully transported 67 electric race cars for the World Championship Formula-E event, which took place on November 22-23 at the Historical Diriyah in Saudi Arabia.The airline carried the vehicles, which collectively weigh 375 tonnes, in four shipments from their starting locations ...
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NewsSpiceJet and Gulf Air to investigate possible collaboration on cargo services
Indian airline SpiceJet and Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore greater co-operation between the two airlines.They are going to examine areas of potential synergy, including looking at co-ordinating cargo services, interline or codeshare agreements, shared engineering services and pilot training.The ...
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NewsSouth African Airways: Industrial action to end soon
South African Airways (SAA) confirmed today (November 22) that it had reached an agreement with the unions in which it has been conflict to end the industrial action which the latter had initiated a week ago.SAA, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the South African Airways ...
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NewsJuneyao Air to launch Manchester–Shanghai service
Shanghai-based carrier Juneyao Air is to launch flights to Manchester on 31 March next year.The service will be operated as a Shanghai Pudong-Helsinki-Manchester route, flown three times a week.Juneyao Air will operate the route with Boeing 787-9 ‘Dreamliner’, and the service will represent an extension of the existing Shanghai-Helsinki route ...
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NewsVirgin Atlantic reports record loads on A350-1000s
Virgin Atlantic has launched its all-new A350-1000s on the trans-Atlantic route, increasing average cargo capacity on each flight to 27 tonnes.The airline said that its new Airbus A350-1000s operating on a Heathrow to JFK connection are carrying record loads.Although the amount of cargo that can be carried on each flight ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines Cargo flies brown bears to DFW
Fausto, the father of many of the bears on the flight to DFWYesterday (November 21), American Airlines Cargo flew 10 brown bears from Ezeiza International Airport near Buenos Aires in Argentina to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, Texas, on board one of its Boeing 787s.The bears, who had been living ...
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NewsTurkish Cargo draws attention to positive September
Turkish Cargo has highlighted the latest data available to it from WorldACD, which shows that Turkish Cargo’s freight volumes increased by 8.8% in September, while the global air cargo market as a whole shrank by 5.4% in volume terms.Turkish Cargo said that, according to that WorldACD data for September, it ...
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NewsSouth Africa Airways: ‘on the road to recovery’
With all intercontinental and some regional flights now back in operation, while domestic services are being carried out by sister airline Mango, South African Airways (SAA) is “on the road to operational recovery”, it claimed in a statement today (November 19).“We thank SAA employees who are back at work and ...
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NewsSAS Cargo celebrates Cargo iQ achievement
SAS copyrightSAS Cargo is celebrating topping the Cargo iQ performance index, while the airline has also begun to take delivery of its new A350 aircraft.In September, the Scandinavian airline ranked number one in Cargo iQ’s Customer Promise Performance Index (CPPI).The airline’s cargo business told Air Cargo News that the CPPI ...
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NewsLimited freighter orders announced at Dubai Airshow
Emirates agreed a deal with Airbus for 50 A350 XWBsWith regards to cargo, there has been comparatively little to shout about so far from this year’s Dubai Airshow, taking place this week in the emirate from November 17-21.The most notable order announced so far was the decision of Dubai-based Emirates ...
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NewsFinnair adds further capacity on Japan routes
As part of what it describes as a strategy of “sustainable, profitable growth”, Finnair is to extend its newly announced Sapporo service to a year-round operation.Finland’s flag-carrier will fly an Airbus A330 aircraft between Helsinki and Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido twice a week year-round from December 15 this ...
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NewsJAL to ramp up connections out of Tokyo from 2020
In response to the allocation of new daytime slots at Tokyo-Haneda International Airport in 2020, Japan Airlines (JAL) is to ramp up its connections between the Japanese capital and destinations in the US, Finland, Russia, Australia, India and China.As a result of the changes, Japan’s flag-carrier will offer 34 international ...
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NewsSouth African Airways resumes international flights
This morning (Monday November 18), South African Airways (SAA) announced its intention to resume flights to six destinations on the African continent: Accra, Lagos, Lusaka, Maputo, Windhoek and Harare, with effect from tomorrow.These six destinations on the African continent add to other international services on which SAA has now resumed ...
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NewsEtihad Cargo continues digital drive with cargo.one deal
Abdulla Mohamed Shadid and Moritz ClaussenEtihad Cargo has continued to digitise its offering by becoming the latest carrier to sign up to the cargo.one booking platform.Starting this week, freight forwarders will be able to instantly book cargo space on Etihad’s aircraft through the digital platform.Etihad Aviation Group’s managing director cargo ...
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SAA plans international flights despite industrial action
South African Airways has announced that it is aiming to operate all international flights departing from OR Tambo International Airport from Sunday 17 November despite ongoing industrial action.The first departure from São Paulo is expected to operate on Sunday, with departures from SAA’s international stations, including London, New York, Washington, ...
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Smart move by Lufthansa Cargo
A new smartBooking feature provides Lufthansa Cargo customers and partners with a binding offer that can be booked online immediately. It contains the available routes, capacities and prices, and automatically executes all relevant checks.The application programming interface (API) will be available to direct customers and will also be used by ...
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NewsEmirates appoints new head of commercial for Far East
Emirates has appointed Orhan Abbas as its new senior vice president for commercial operations in the Far East. Previously senior vice president of commercial operations for Africa, in his new role, Orhan will lead growth efforts across Southeast and East Asia, including Singapore China, Japan and Hong Kong.Emirates SkyCargo celebrates ...
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Cathay Group's cargo volumes droop in October
Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried 183,119 tonnes of cargo and mail in October, a drop of 4.9% compared to the same month in 2018.In its latest monthly figures, Cathay Pacific Group said that cargo and mail load factor fell by 2.4 percentage points to 68.0%.Capacity, measured in available freight ...
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Emirates SkyCargo celebrates pharma-handling achievements
In a recent announcement, Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, highlighted three milestones related to its pharma-handling capabilities.The airline is continuing to invest in pharma-handling facilities, as well as working towards expanding its pharma corridor network.1) Chicago pharma facility received GDP certificationEarlier this year, Emirates SkyCargo established a pharma ...
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NewsWFS scoops Cape Town cargo deal from United
United Airlines has awarded cargo handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) with the contract to handle cargo in Cape Town on the first-ever nonstop service from a US carrier between New York/Newark and the South African city.WFS in Cape Town has been awarded a three-year contract by United Airlines to serve ...