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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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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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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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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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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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Delta cancels flights as poweroutage hits computer systems
Delta Air Lines has warned its flights are subject to large-scale cancellations today 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.However, the issue has since escalated. Its latest update said: “A ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Qatar to take stake in Italy’s Meridiana
Qatar Airways has signed an agreement with Alisarda to buy 49% of its subsidiary Meridiana, Italy’s second largest airline. The deal is subject to conditions and is expected to close in early October.Meridiana operates an extensive domestic and European network, which connects the main Italian airports with Sardinia and provides ...
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IAG to boost its Shanghai cargo capacity by 65% to cater for peak demand
IAG Cargo is hoping that peak demand for electronics, pharmaceuticals and automobile parts will help fill additional Boeing 777 flights to Shanghai.The cargo arm of British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, said the airline group’s new flight from Madrid to Shanghai had touched down for the first time today, while ...
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American Airlines Cargo to benefit from launch of Auckland connection
American Airlines has launched a daily non-stop service between its Los Angeles Airport hub and Auckland, New Zealand.The route, operated by Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’ equipment, opens up “vast new opportunities” for freight customers, notes the carrier’s cargo wing, with connections on the American Airlines network through its Los Angeles gateway ...