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YTO Express Airlines reveals international ambitions
Recently launched YTO Express Airlines has revealed the extent of its global ambitions after its chairman unveiled plans for widebody freighter orders that will be used to create international services.Chairman of express firm YTO, Yu Weijiao, told China Daily that the airline would order at least three widebody freighters for ...
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Work gets under way on GECAS 737-800NG conversion programme
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the aviation leasing and financing arm of GE, has begun its inaugural Boeing 737-800NG passenger-to-freighter conversion.The conversion, which is being carried out by Aeronautical Engineers, began when a 1999 vintage B737-800 arrived in Miami on May 5.The aircraft had been operated by Corendon Airlines in ...
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NewsEuropean monthly: A new hope as European airlines return to growth
Europe’s major cargo carriers have seen cargo volumes return to growth in April after a difficult start to the year.All four major European airlines monitored in the Air Cargo News monthly spotlight recorded a year on year increase in demand in April for the first time since March 2014.It follows ...
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NewsCargojet returns to profit in Q1
Cargojet’s contract with Canada Post finally started to pay dividends in the first quarter of this year as the company returned to profit.The Canada-based aircraft lessor and operator saw first quarter revenues increase by 42.1% year on year to C$76.9m, while it recorded a net profit of C$4.4m compared with ...
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ATSG reports on first-quarter upturn and positive Amazon effect
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the Wilmington, Ohio-based provider of medium wide-body freighter aircraft leasing and transport services, has revealed its first-quarter financial results, reporting improved revenue compared to the same period of 2015 as well as record adjusted earnings for a first quarter.Over the three months up to March ...
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LCI leases freighters to Turkish operator
LCI, the aviation leasing arm of the Libra Group, has increased its fleet of dedicated maindeck freighter aircraft.Two additional Boeing 747-400F aircraft are now flying for Qatar Airways and Saudia, Saudi Arabian Airlines, and are being operated by ACT Airlines, known as myCARGO Airlines, the Turkish wet-lease operator.The two Pratt ...
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Freighter conversion frenzy continues with Automatic order
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc (AEI) has signed a contract with US and European leasing company Automatic for two 11-pallet-position B737-400SF freighter conversions.Both aircraft were built in 1993, are standard gross weight and the work will be carried out by AEI's modification and repair specialist Commercial Jet at its Miami facility.The aircraft ...
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Qantas to fly six-strong postal freighter fleet
Qantas Freight has revamped its domestic Australia Post network by dedicating five of its ten-strong freighter fleet to the service and will also soon take delivery of a B737-400 freighter for the exclusive use of the operation.Currently, Qantas operates ten domestic freighters across Australia - four B737-300CF, four BaE146 and ...
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Raya gets new chief executive
Asian cargo airline Raya Airways has announced the appointment of Lee Shashitheren as its new executive director and chief executive.Lee, former commercial director of Raya Airways, has more than 20 years’ experience in the cargo airline business and takes over from the former managing director Mohamad Najib Ishak, who resigned ...
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Load factors fade but profits up at Air China
Air China reported cargo capacity up by almost 11% to 3.157 billion available freight tonne kilometers (AFTK) in the first quarter of 2016 but with cargo traffic up only 4.25%, to 1.556 billion AFTK load factor fell 3% to 49%, year-on-year.Otherwise, the airline reported steady progress in the face of ...
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Flight to freedom
A total of 33 lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are due to fly to a new life in South Africa on 29 April on a chartered MD11F freighter. The animals, 24 from Peru and nine from Colombia, have been rescued by international campaigning group, Animal Defenders International ...
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Etihad adds new freighter connection into Muscat
Etihad Cargo, the freight division of the UAE’s national flag-carrier, Etihad Airways, has introduced a new twice a week freighter service to Muscat, Oman, from its home hub of Abu Dhabi.It has also added an additional frequency on its link to Kuwait City. Both routes are operated by Airbus A330 ...
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NewsSlow start to the year for production freighter orders
Orders of production freighter aircraft slowed in the first quarter of this year, but Boeing’s 747-8 programme did receive a boost through an order for four of the aircraft.The latest updates from Boeing and Airbus show that during the first quarter of the year four orders were placed for B747-8 ...
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Another successful Air Cargo News Cargo Airline of the Year Awards
American Airlines was voted Cargo Airline of the Year 2016 in a night of airfreight industry celebrations, with 14 winners taking a bow in London at a gala event.The airfreight industry Oscars, now in their 33rd year, were presented by TV celebrity Gyles Brandreth in front of an audience of ...
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PACAVI lands A320/321 conversion orders
PACAVI, the US-based engineering and conversion specialist,has confirmed the first orders for its Airbus A320-321passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion programme.São Paulo based business charter company Colt Aviation/Colt Cargo, has ordered two converted A321 freighters with an option for one more and Norway’s Airline Management will acquire six A320 freighters.The conversion specialist said ...
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ABC achieves Cargo iQ certification
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has gained Cargo iQ, formerly Cargo 2000, certification for meeting the IATA organisation’s quality standards.Following a two-day inspection, ABC’s quality certificate is valid for two year and acknowledges the airline’s conformance to Cargo iQ’s quality requirements.The audit process reviewed ABC’s quality management programme, data analysis, customer service ...
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Precision receives new freighter conversion orders for express airlines
Precision Aircraft Solutions has had a busy start to the year after receiving an order for eight freighter conversions and delivering three aircraft to customers.The conversion firm confirmed it has received eight orders for Boeing 757-200 passenger-to-freighter conversions.Six of the orders came from China Postal Airlines, while new cargo airline ...
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Volga-Dnepr and Sheremetyevo Airport announce deal to develop cargo facilities
Volga-Dnepr Group and Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport have signed an agreement that will see them enhance cargo infrastructure at the airport and develop relationships with other airports.The two partners said the co-operation would join the forces of the airport and the airline in the areas influencing development of air cargo ...
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KF Cargo launches Miami freighter services to South America
Canadian airline KF Cargo has added two new air cargo services between Miami and various destinations in South America.The airline, a subsidiary of KF Aerospace, will operate three weekly round-trip flights between Miami and Bogota and three weekly flights on a triangular route from Miami to Caracas and onto Lima.The ...
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Blue Dart benefits from rise of business to consumer demand in India
Indian express air cargo carrier Blue Dart posted a double-digit increase in profits for the quarter ended March 31.The airline, which is 70% owned by Deutsche Post, recorded a 17% year on year increase in profit after tax for the quarter ended March 31 to R404.9m. Profits for the full ...