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Cathay freighter showcases new livery
Cathay Pacific has revealed its first freighter showcasing the airline’s brand new livery.The freshly painted freighter, a Boeing 747-400ERF (Extended Range Freighter) arrived in Hong Kong from the HAECO facility in Xiamen.The new livery comprises three key design elements: the incorporation of the updated and streamlined brushwing; a simplification of ...
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Romanian artefacts flown from Bucharest to Beijing
Air Partner, working on behalf of TNT Romania, helped deliver a cargo of 445 treasured Romanian artefacts to China.The shipment was flown from Bucharest Otopeni airport to Beijing on a B777 freighter operated by Emirates. Due to the nature of the cargo, all flight clearances had to be secured through ...
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Southern comfort as Atlas swoops for ACMI rival
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has entered into a “definitive agreement” to acquire privately held Southern Air Holdings for $110m, a deal that brings together two US-based ACMI service providers with a combined fleet of more than 75 aircraft.The transaction, with Atlas Air using “available cash on hand” to complete the ...
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‘Abandoned’ freighters claimed
Malaysian-based freighter airline Swift Air Cargo says it is the owner of three apparently abandoned 747-200Fs at Kuala Lumpur airport, saying it had been “stunned” to read press reports that the planes had been abandoned and that it had been unable to trace their owners.In early December, the airport authority ...
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Hollywood bowled over by Qatar's extra LA freighter
Qatar Airways will serve Los Angeles with a fourth weekly Boeing 777 freighter service from January 19, after launching the US west coast maindeck route with a twice weekly frequency to its Doha hub in April 2015.Group chief executive Akbar Al Baker announced the Middle East carrier's additional freighter frequency ...
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NewsFreighter orders soar in 2015
Despite pessimism in the airfreight market in 2015, the year proved to be a busy period for orders of freighter aircraft.Aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus have now revealed their order and delivery figures for 2015 and there was a notable increase in the number of freighters ordered for both companies.In ...
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Etihad cargo volumes up by 4% in 2015
Etihad Airways reported strong cargo volumes for 2015, with 592,090 tonnes of freight and mail flown in total, a four percent increase year-on-year.The national airline of the United Arab Emirates accounted for 88% of cargo imports, exports and transfers at Abu Dhabi International Airport last year.The airline's Etihad Cargo division ...
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Is the air cargo industry ready for an unmanned aircraft revolution?
Given all of the hype of recent months, readers would be forgiven for thinking unmanned air cargo operations were just around the corner. They are, but only if the industry is prepared to engage in the change.There is no doubt that the prospect of utilising unmanned aerial systems (UAS) of ...
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Emirates bridges the gap for Uganda
Emirates SkyCargo has flown an 84 tonnes load of heavy machinery and steel parts for a new bridge being built across the Nile River in Uganda.The UAE-based passenger and freighter aircraft operator was awarded the charter by a Japanese construction company to carry the load from Tokyo’s Narita Airport to ...
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AirBridgeCargo reports double-digit airfreight growth as it looks ahead to 2016
AirBridgeCargo Airlines’ (ABC) strong growth continued in November with a 27% upswing in cargo carried compared to the same month a year ago.In November, ABC transported more than 50,000 tonnes and for the first 11 months of 2015 volumes jumped by 20% year-on-year to 439,000 tonnes.ABC executive president Denis Ilin ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo to add new US freighter route
Qatar Airways Cargo will launch a new freighter route to Dallas/Fort Worth from Liege in early 2016 and more services can be expected as the year progresses.The Doha-based airline will start the service on January 19 using a Boeing 777F to fly twice per week between the Belgian and US ...
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China Postal Airlines orders ten B737-800 freighter conversions
China Postal Airlines has signed up with US planemaker Boeing for ten Next-Generation 737 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs), pending a program launch."This is a historic order both for China Postal and Boeing," said Yufeng Li, president of China Postal Airlines, who signed the agreement with Boeing in Beijing. He added: ...
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Cathay Pacific runs airfreight test flight to Wellcamp Airport
Cathay Pacific has run an air cargo test flight to the Australian town of Toowoomba to gauge commercial interest in the region and to test operations.The Hong Kong-headquartered carrier deployed a Boeing 747-8 Freighter to Wellcamp Airport, which is located in one of Queensland’s richest agricultural areas.The airline said the ...
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Cargolux pilots' union 'opens the possiblity' of industrial action
The war of words between Cargolux and its pilots union have intensified with the LCGB union “opening the possibility to initiate industrial actions”.In November, more than 94% of the LCGB members at Cargolux voted in favour of industrial action if negotiations were unsuccessful.Today's sharply worded statement from the LCGB comes ...
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Setback for Cargolux peace talks
Cargolux management said that talks on a new collective work agreement (CWA) with the LCGB pilots' union were cut short after the union “surprisingly backtracked on the agreement in principal reached on December 1.”According to the Luxembourg-based all-cargo airline, LCGB “declared unexpectedly to all participants that they considered the negotiations ...
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Would the owner of a white Boeing 747F, registration TF-ARN…
Many of us will at some time have had to ring up officialdom asking them to remove an abandoned car from our street but Kuala Lumpur International in Malaysia is experiencing the problem on a much bigger scale. Someone has dumped three Boeing 747-200 freighters at the airport.Decluttering airport officials ...
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AirBridgeCargo renews safety certificate
Russia’s AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has renewed its IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) for a further two years following a five-day independent audit.Inspectors reviewed the carrier’s flight performance, operating control, maintenance and ground handling, aviation security and quality management under the standard two-year re-evaluation scheme.IOSA certified airlines have a crash rate ...
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Freighters World: Asian capacity shifts
From the latest edition of Freighters World, out now...In a short-lived venture nearly twenty years ago United Airlines was running a transpacific freighter operation centred on Tokyo, writes Ian Putzger.On the tarmac at Narita airport, the US carrier’s DC-10-30Fs stood out like strange minnows surrounded by behemoths. Practically all the ...
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Free to download freighters directory wallchart
A free copy of Air Cargo News' exclusive 2016 Freighter Fleet Directory is available to download.The editorial team worked with cargo charter broker Chapman Freeborn to produce the updated wallchart, comprising the leading players in the industry. The directory can also be found in next week's edition of Air Cargo ...
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Cargolux pilot unions "not optimistic" about talks
Ahead of Monday’s crunch talks to avoid further strike action, Cargolux’s pilot union representatives remain unimpressed by an airline management proposal to hire 100 additional pilots.Dirk Becker, general secretary of the Luxembourgish Pilots Association (ALPL), said that he was “not optimistic” about the outcome of Monday’s negotiations to hammer out ...