All Bellyhold Airline Articles – Page 34
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Saudia to add bellyhold links
Saudia will add bellyhold cargo services to new destinations Munich and Maldives in the coming weeks, with services to Ankara starting in the last quarter of 2016.Passenger bellyhold space of up to 30 tonnes will be available on Boeing 777 and Airbus A320/A330 passenger aircraft serving the new routes, said ...
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NewsDelta sees first quarter air cargo revenues slide
Delta Air Lines continued to see cargo volumes and revenues decline during the first quarter of the year.The US airline suffered a 25.3% year-on-year decline in cargo revenues to $162m on the back of a 13.3% drop in volumes to 475m cargo ton miles.Although Delta does not provide commentary on ...
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NewsEuropean cargo carriers monthly: cargo declines at Lufthansa and Air France
IAG Cargo and Finnair both managed to record air cargo demand increases during the first quarter of the year while Air France-KLM and Lufthansa suffered declines.While all four carriers recorded a spike in demand during March, compared with February, the level of increase was weaker than in previous years, although ...
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Qatar adds express option
Qatar Airways Cargo has added a time-critical airport-to-airport product to its portfolio. QR Express offers high boarding priority and rapid handling, along with short and flexible close-outs, dedicated ramp transfer and priority unloading at final destination with a 90-minute retrieval time.Chief officer cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann said the new service was ...
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Boeing holds Tehran talks
US plane-maker Boeing says it has launched preliminary discussions with Iranian airlines about possible aircraft sales. It followed the as yet unconfonfirmed agreement announced by rival builder Airbus in January that it had agreed to sell 118 aircraft worth $27 billion to Iran.Boeing said no firm deal had been made ...
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NewsAirfreight demand and load factors take a tumble in February
Air cargo demand and load factors slipped in February but figures are skewed by strikes at US seaports last year and the date of the Chinese New Year.The latest IATA figures show that freight tonne kms (FTKs) slipped by 5.6% year on year in February while capacity was up by ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Pegasus and Air India place orders in March
Each month Air Cargo News analyses the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.Pegasus Airlines orders five 737sTurkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines and Boeing have finalised an order for five Next-Generation Boeing 737-800s in a deal valued at approximately $505m based on expected list prices at delivery.Pegasus Airlines and its ...
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Air China Cargo sees yields tumble in 2015
Air China Cargo saw yields and load factors come under pressure last year but managed to maintain profitability.The cargo arm of Air China saw demand increase by 15.2% last year, one of the highest growth rates in the industry, to 6.6bn revenue freight tonne km (RFTK), while capacity was up ...
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NewsAsian air cargo carriers record weak Chinese New Year period
Asian airlines saw airfreight demand decline in February after a weak Chinese New Year period and comparisons were affected by a boost in demand last year due to port strikes in the US.The latest airline data shows that all six Asian airlines monitored in Air Cargo News’ monthly report saw ...
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Swiss WorldCargo to focus on developing services after a flat start to the year
Swiss WorldCargo hopes to further enhance its services for the pharmaceutical and e-commerce industries as it faces up to another year of flat growth for the air cargo industry in 2016.Head of cargo at Swiss Ashwin Bhat said 2015 was not a good year for the airline’s cargo division in ...
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IAG hopes perishable growth will fill South Africa winter service
IAG Cargo hopes a new UK-South Africa Boeing 777-200 winter service will be boosted by the African country's growing perishables market.The service between Gatwick and Cape Town will operate three times each week and supplements an Airbus 330-300 Madrid-Johannesburg service, due to start August 1, and the existing London Heathrow-Cape ...
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Lufthansa Cargo names new area managers
Lufthansa Cargo has appointed new area managers for its Europe & Africa and the Americas regions, as well as a new head of global handling management.On June 1 this year, Achim Martinka will take charge of sales and handling in the Europe & Africa region, succeeding Carsten Wirths.Since October 2010, ...
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NewsAmerican cargo carriers monthly: Tough times for US carriers
America-based airlines’ monthly airfreight statistics for February made for difficult reading as American, Delta and United all recorded year-on-year demand declines for the first time in years.While demand declines are not good news for the airlines, the comparisons with a year ago are affected by the west coast US port ...
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US forwarders urge DoT to think freight when awarding Cuba licenses
The US Airforwarders Association (AFA) has urged the country’s Department of Transportation (DoT) to assign routes for Cuba to US passenger airlines that also offer air cargo service.The AFA said a total of eight US carriers had applied to operate routes from between the US and Cuba, but only five ...
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NewsEuropean cargo carriers monthly: Another mixed month for airlines
The latest airline statistics have revealed another mixed month for Europe’s leading combination carriers’ cargo volumes.While Lufthansa and Air France KLM both recorded another year-on-year decline in cargo demand in February, IAG and Finnair saw demand increase.The IAG Group, which owns British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, saw its cargo ...
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NewsAir cargo demand continues to grow but yields to remain under pressure
Airfreight demand continued to show an improvement in January, but is wasn’t enough to stop load factors declining and therefore yields are likely to remain under pressure.The latest figures from IATA show that demand in January increased by 2.7% year on year, which continues the improvements witnessed towards the end ...
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Air France KLM to roll out new temp-controlled transporters in Mexico and LA
Air France KLM will roll out its new airside temperature-controlled transporters in Los Angeles and Mexico.The Franco-Dutch airline has developed the new Kold Kart transporters to try and solve the issue of temperature fluctuations during ramp handling operations.Forwarders and shippers have long complained that their sensitive pharmaceutical shipments face temperature ...
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Air Europa renews ULD deal with CHEP
Spanish airline Air Europa has renewed its contract with ULD service provider CHEP Aerospace Solutions.This deal will see CHEP continue to provide ULD pooling to Air Europa, while also converting 770 containers to CHEP's lightweight units.Air Europa Handling contract manager Mauro Rodriguez said: "We have built a strong relationship with ...
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Lufthansa Cargo to sell capacity on Eurowings' new long-haul operations
Lufthansa Cargo will begin to sell the belly space of sister company Eurowings’ recently launched long-haul flights.Lufthansa Cargo said it would begin selling the space on Eurowings’ flights from Cologne/Bonn to the Caribbean (Varadero, Cancun, Dominican Republic) and Thailand (Phuket, Bangkok) from March 27.Eurowings is in the process of expanding ...
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Queuing for Cuba: US carriers submit applications for services to Cuba
The three major US airlines have all now submitted their applications to start scheduled services to Cuba.Late last night, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines confirmed they had submitted their applications to the Department of Transport.Delta hopes to offer flights from Atlanta and JFK with the Boeing 757-200, ...