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Network Airline Management and Astral add B747-400F
Network Airline Management (NAM) and Astral Aviation have signed a long-term wet lease with Air Atlanta Icelandic adding a factory-built, nose-loader B747-400F to their existing managed fleet of three MD11Fs.This will enable NAM to develop their presence in Africa, and especially the Kenyan perishables market, adding capacity for flowers and ...
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Atlas expects strong fourth quarter and solid peak season
US-based freighter lessor Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWH) is looking to “a strong fourth quarter,” and anticipates “solid peak-season yields and volumes” in year-end 2017.AAWH, which leases B767 freighters to Amazon’s Prime Air overnight parcel airline, announced a loss from continuing operations, net of taxes, of $24.2m, including an unrealised ...
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Two more Turkish Cargo stations achieve pharma standard
Turkish Cargo has gained QEP Accreditation from Envirotainer for its Brussels and Atlanta stations for the quality of its pharmaceutical services.The carrier, which also delivers temperature-controlled medical products via QEP accredited stations in Bombay, Frankfurt, Hyderabad, Seoul, Istanbul and Tel Aviv, has been widening its services to over 300 points ...
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SIA Cargo achieves massive turnaround
SIA Cargo, the freight arm of Singapore Airlines, has successfully turned the tables on its 2016-17 first-half loss of S$45m, posting an operating profit of S$32m for the same period of the 2017-18 financial year.The carrier attributed the result to higher volumes (up 6.1% year on year) as well as ...
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Freighter lessor ATSG: outlook is bright
US-based aircraft lessor ATSG, provider of Boeing 767 freighters for Amazon's Prime Air cargo airline, saw its revenue increase by 31% to $254.1m year-on-year in the third quarter of 2017.Joe Hete, president and chief executive, said the results “reflect growth in our operating fleet and strong double-digit growth in associated ...
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CLA adds Tel Aviv to expanding route network
CargoLogicAir (CLA), the UK-registered freighter operator, is to begin weekly scheduled services to Tel Aviv in Israel.The London Stansted-based airline will use a Boeing 747-400F for the new service to Tel Aviv via Frankfurt. In December, the outbound departure out of Europe will move from Frankfurt (Main) to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.Dmitry ...
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West Atlantic flies through choppy air
Swedish cargo airline West Atlantic confirmed that it has suffered financially this year, largely as a result of high start-up costs caused by delayed deliveries of aircraft needed to fulfil its new Royal Mail contract.In a statement on its website, the Gothenburg-headquartered airline said: "As a consequence, the company does ...
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Volga-Dnepr 'racking' its brains to deliver 30 Mercs to Luanda
Volga-Dnepr used a two-tier car racking system for its An-124-100 freighter fleet to deliver 30 Mercedes Benz limousines to Angola for the inauguration of new president, Joao Lourenco.The 90-tonne payload from Leipzig, on a single flight to Luanda, consisted of 25 luxury sedans (list price around £60,000) three police cars ...
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Bloodhound scents a record, with help from CargoLogicAir
CargoLogicAir (CLA) has congratulated the Bloodhound SSC team following the first public run of its 1,000mph car, for which the carrier is the official cargo airline partner.Representatives of the British all-cargo carrier joined 3,500 spectators at Cornwall Airport Newquay to witness Bloodhound successfully complete its first test run. It completed ...
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David Kerr named as chief executive of CargoLogicAir
Etihad Airways cargo boss David Kerr has been named as the new chief executive of CargoLogicAir (CLA), the UK-registered freighter airline, with effect from 1 January 2018.Sir John Holmes, advisory board chairman of CLA, said: “David is a highly respected, experienced and well-known air cargo industry executive who will bring ...
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Tim Strauss says aloha Air Canada Cargo
When Tim Strauss met the Air Canada Cargo team in Montreal for the first time, he was greeted by a sea of people wearing Aloha shirts, lei garlands, shorts and grass skirts. All that was missing was the theme tune from Hawaii Five-0.Says Strauss: “If you want to talk about ...
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Western Global adds to Puerto Rico relief effort
Florida-based Western Global Airlines is continuing to operate relief flights to Puerto Rico, carrying emergency supplies aboard its widebody MD-11 freighters to the Caribbean island that has been hard-hit by Hurricane Maria.Each flight delivers approximately 90 tonnes of relief supplies, such as food, water and equipment. Two of its relief ...
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Cargolux turns to temp-control container lessor SkyCell
Luxembourg-based B747 freighter operator Cargolux has agreed a deal with SkyCell that will see the latter’s temperature-controlled containers become available to the airline’s shipper customers.SkyCell containers will enable Cargolux to transport pharma products in the +2°C to +8°C and +15°C to +25°C ranges, despite ambient temperature extremes of between -35°C ...
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LATAM flies relief cargo to Puerto Rico
LATAM Cargo, South America’s biggest cargo airline, has flown more than 40 tons of water, food, generators, medicine and other aid from Miami to Puerto Rico as part of the humanitarian aid effort launched in the wake of Hurricane Maria and the devastation it caused to the island in September.The ...
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Silk Way grows its fleet with B747-8Fs
SILK WAY Airlines has ordered two B747-8Fs, expanding its current fleet of aircraft to seven.The national flag carrier for Azerbaijan, based at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, hopes the move will help strengthen its competitive position in the airfreight market.“One of the goals of the Azerbaijani government is to ...
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Atlas warns of constrained freighter supply
Atlas Air Worldwide (AAWW) is expecting to see constraints on the supply of freighters over the coming years due to limited supply of aircraft and demand increases.Speaking at the Freighters World conference, AAWW president and chief executive William Flynn said the “supply of airframes is somewhat constrained”, although he added ...
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Cathay Pacific gains CEIV Pharma
Cathay Pacific has become the first airline in Hong Kong to be awarded IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification.Ronald Lam, Cathay Pacific’s director commercial and cargo, said: “Cathay Pacific Cargo adheres to the highest operating standards and this certification highlights our capabilities in handling these precious, time-sensitive and often life-saving shipments.”CEIV Pharma ...
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WFS wins Qatar Airways handling contract for Pittsburgh freighter
Qatar Airways Cargo has appointed Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) to provide cargo handling for its new twice-weekly Being 777 freighter services to Pittsburgh.The flight makes Qatar Airways the first international airline to begin a scheduled freighter service to the Pennsylvanian hub, and it becomes the Middle East airline’s fifth freighter ...
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Silk Way West inks ULD deal with ACL Airshop
Silk Way West Airlines has confirmed a multi-year unit load device (ULD) agreement with ULD management company ACL Airshop, starting next month (November).The deal extends a long-standing business relationship between the two companies, with ACL Airshop being a service partner with other airline units of Silk Way Holding for almost ...
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Trinity and Etihad launch B777F to Hanoi from Ohio
Trinity Logistics USA and Etihad Airways have again joined forces to launch a weekly Boeing 777 freighter service between Hanoi in Vietnam and Ohio’s Rickenbacker airport (Columbus) in the US.The US logistics operator and the Middle East carrier already operate a joint twice a week B777F to Asia, from Colombo ...