Bellyhold airlines – Page 31
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Good news for Garuda
Indonesian flag-carrier Garuda enjoyed an impressive 22.5% year on year increase in its cargo volumes in August, reaching a figure of 34,350 tons.The cargo load factor increased by 7.85 percentage points compared to August 2015 to reach 51.8%.Over the course of the January – August period, Garuda carried a total ...
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Qatar Airways flies into Windhoek
Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, has become the latest city on the expanding network of Doha-based Qatar Airways.The carrier is going to fly the route to its first Namibian connection from its hub at Doha with a Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’ four times a week.Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar Al ...
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Oman Air looks to the future
Oman Air’s chief executive, Paul Gregorowitsch, this week laid out his plans for the airline’s growth in coming years, as well as reporting on “important progress (achieved) over the last two years”.He pointed to the fact that the Muscat-based carrier is “delivering an ambitious and dynamic programme of fleet and ...
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Brussels Airlines to fly to Yerevan
Brussels Airlines has confirmed that on March 31 next year it will begin flying to the Armenian capital of Yerevan.The airline will operate A319/320 aircraft on the route from the Belgian capital once a week, except in the months of July and August when the lane will be flown twice ...
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IAG and Finnair switch to bellyhold on London-Helsinki partnership
IAG Cargo and Finnair Cargo will no longer take space on DHL freighters between London and Helsinki, instead opting for bellyspace on passenger aircraft.From October 3, the two partner airlines will use bellyspace on their Airbus 350 aircraft instead of continuing their use of DHL A300-600 freighters. The last freighter ...
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VIDEO: IAG Cargo to build new £55m premium product centre and launch time-critical product
IAG Cargo has unveiled plans to build a new £55m facility for premium freight and pharma at its London Heathrow site in response to growth in its services for high-value cargo and will also launch a new time-critical product (see video at end of article).The new terminal, to be called ...
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Emirates hopes to end perception Middle East hubs aren't pharma cargo friendly
Emirates SkyCargo’s opening of a $190m dedicated pharmaceuticals handling centre at its Dubai home hub will help end a legacy perception in some sections of the industry that Middle East hubs are not pharma-friendly.Nabil Sultan, Emirates divisional senior vice president, cargo, speaking at the opening of the Emirates SkyPharma facility, ...
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DHL and United expand services into pharma hub San Juan
United Airlines and DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) have announced growth and expansion initiatives to serve San Juan, the burgeoning life sciences and pharmaceuticals hub in Puerto Rico.The two companies are working together to increase the number of widebody flights serving San Juan and to offer expanded cold chain storage solutions ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: Divergence in freight growth continues
The divergence in performance among the main freight carrying airlines in the US continued in August as United and American airlines both achieved growth while Delta Air Lines registered another decline.The country’s largest cargo airline, United, recorded another strong month in August with demand increasing by 8.8% compared with last ...
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IAG Cargo starts offering Tehran bellyspace
IAG Cargo has today commenced a new London to Tehran service as it looks to capitalise on the removal of trade sanctions on Iran.IAG said customers would benefit from six flights per week to and from Iran, which will improve connectivity between European and Middle Eastern markets.The service will be ...
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Virgin promotes Phillips to regional sales manager role for Europe
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Claire Phillips as Regional Sales Manager – Continental Europe.Phillips, who takes up her new post from September 5, has worked for the airline for five years, initially as Route Development Manager and Capacity Controller.Prior to this promotion, Phillips played an integral role in the training ...
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Finnair selects terminal operator for its new Helsinki freight hub
Finnair Cargo has selected HUB Logistics as the terminal operator for its new 37,000sq m Cool Nordic hub due to open at Helsinki airport in May 2017.The two companies will work closely over the next eight months to maximise use of the new terminal from the start of operations.The transition ...
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Aircraft orders monthly: Boeing confirms Volga-Dnepr deal, conversions snapped up
Each month Air Cargo News analyses the latest aircraft orders, both passenger and freighter.Boeing signs freighter-logistics deal with Volga-DneprAs previously reported by Air Cargo News, Boeing signed a deal at the Farnborough Airshow with Russian heavylift airline Volga-Dnepr Group for 20 747-8 Freighters, including four that have already been delivered. ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo looks forward to new A350s
Virgin Atlantic’s cargo division is looking forward to extra capacity and increased fuel efficiency of the 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft that were ordered at last month's Farnborough International Airshow.The airline said the $4.4bn investment is part of a fleet modernisation programme, which will see 50% of Virgin Atlantic’s aircraft replaced ...
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Cathay’s cargo revenue slips in weak market
Cathay Pacific Group’s cargo revenue fell away by 17.2% in the first six months of 2016, to HK$9.4bn, said the Hong Kong carrier.Cargo capacity on Cathay Pacific and Dragonair increased by 0.6% while load factor decreased by 1.9 percentage points, to 62.2% and tonnage carried decreased by 0.2%.Cathay attributed the ...
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Finnair unveils plan to save €20m a year as cargo market remains uncertain
Finnair unveiled a €20m cost efficiency programme on the same day that it announced its half-year results, in which it admitted that the outlook for cargo and passenger traffic in its main markets remains uncertain.The Finnish flag carrier said that while savings programmes in 2011-14 have improved its performance, it ...
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Emirates to fly A380 to Guangzhou
Emirates is to replace the 777-300ER on its daily Dubai-Guangzhou route with an A380 from October 1. It follows recent announcements of A380 deployment on its Milan and Johannesburg routes.Other destinations served by Emirates A380 include Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, London, Paris, Sydney, Toronto, Auckland, Bangkok, and Seoul.Although the ...
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NewsAmerican Cargo Monthly: declines at LATAM and Delta and improvements at United and American
Demand patterns at America’s major bellyhold cargo carriers continued along a similar trend to the rest of the year with United and American recording increases while LATAM and Delta reported declines.American Airlines Cargo flew 190.5m cargo ton miles in July, up by 5.7% on the same month of 2015. The ...
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Brussels Airlines to launch Mumbai link
Brussels Airlines is to inaugurate services to Mumbai in March next year, forming its first link to an Asian destination.The carrier will fly Airbus A330 equipment to the Indian city’s Chhatrapati Shivaji airport five times a week.With a population of 20 million, Mumbai is amongst the 10 biggest cities in ...
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Emirates points to cargo potential for new Southeast Asian link
On 3 August, Emirates launch a daily, linked service that flies from Dubai to Yangon in Myanmar, before going onwards to Hanoi in Vietnam.Operated with Boeing 777-300ER equipment, the new service expands the airline’s network in Southeast Asia to 12 cities across seven countries.Yangon is the first destination within Myanmar ...