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AirBridge adds Los Angeles
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has added twice-weekly Los Angeles flights to its global network.The carrier, which entered the North American market in 2011, already serves Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth and is now moving 55,000 tones a year across the Atlantic.Senior vice president for sales and marketing, Robert van de Weg, said: ...
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Turkish freighter goes to Chicago
Turkish Airlines has launched weekly freighter services to Chicago to supplement its passenger flights to the US and Canada.The A330F departs Istanbul Ataturk at 06.50 on Fridays and operates via Shannon in Ireland, arriving at Chicago O’Hare at 12.50 the same day. The return flight departs Chicago at 15.05 on ...
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Cargojet completes Canada Post switch
Overnight airfreight operator Cargojet has completed the transfer of the Canada Post group business to its network.A new domestic air cargo network services contract for the Canada Post and Purolator brands across Canada came into full effect from April, initially for seven years but with options to extend for a ...
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Frankfurt gets Central Asia connection
Uzbekistan Airways has introduced a twice-weekly B767 freighter service between Navoi International Airport and Frankfurt.Operating on Wednesdays and Fridays, the carrier is also offering freighter connections to Mumbai, Delhi, Dubai, Shanghai and Tianjin via Navoi.Originally established by the Soviet Union in 1962, Navoi Airport in central Uzbekistan is now managed ...
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AirBridge adds Vietnam freighter links
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) is extending its global network to Vietnam with the launch of twice-weekly freighter services from Hanoi.The flights depart Hanoi every Wednesday and Saturday, bound for ABC’s hub at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport via Hong Kong. From Moscow, the flight connects to ABC destinations in Europe and the US.Robert ...
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IAG Cargo spooked freighter market says Lufthansa Cargo boss
IAG Cargo’s decision to axe its remaining freighters has spooked the air cargo market, says Lufthansa Cargo chief executive Peter Gerber, writes Chris Lewis.The debate now going on in the industry, as to whether freighters were still necessary, “has been triggered by British Airways' [IAG Cargo] comments” in the wake ...
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The spectre of further rate wars...
AIR CARGO operators are warning against knee-jerk rates wars amid Eurozone stagnation in the second quarter impacted by deepening global political unrest, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.“The main concern is that political instability, mainly between Russia and Europe/USA will escalate further and subsequently will affect the already fragile economic recovery,” ...
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Business as usual for Thai Airways despite freighter suspension
Thai Airways says it will be “business as usual” for cargo despite the decision to suspend operations of the carrier’s remaining two freighter aircraft at the end of March.The Asian carrier points out that the axing of the freighters — which Thai describes as a “temporary suspension” — will happen ...
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Qatar Cargo freighter ready for Mexico
QATAR Airways Cargo begins its twice-weekly B777 freighter service to Mexico City this month, marking the start of operations in the continent.“This is a historic moment for us, as it heralds the beginning of our operations in Latin America,” says Ulrich Ogiermann, chief officer, cargo.“It demonstrates that we are well ...
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Second half surge boosts Cathay Cargo in 2014
Cargo's stronger second half in 2014 helped Cathay Pacific Group report a 20.2 per cent surge in attributable profit to HK$3.1bn for the full year.Group turnover in passenger and freight increased by 5.5 per cent to HK$106bn. Cargo revenues increased by 7.3 per cent to HK$25.4bn compared with 2013.Cathay, which ...
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Hefty jump in Asian air cargo demand
Latest monthly data from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) shows that international freight tonne km (FTK) surged 20.5 per cent last month, outpacing a 12.6 per cent increase in offered freight capacity.AAPA said that the result – based on preliminary data - was a 4.2 percentage points increase ...
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Cargolux and DB Schenker, a decade of US pharma
Cargolux has celebrated a decade of healthcare shipment flights to Indianapolis in cooperation with German logistics operator DB Schenker.Cargolux and DB Schenker started the first Indianapolis service in 2005 with a weekly flight and added a second weekly flight the year after.Ten years on, the Luxembourg-based all-cargo carrier has now ...
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AF-KLM: Neither pushed nor disgruntled
Was he pushed? Is he protesting at the direction that the company is taking? Erik Varwijk, who resigned as executive vice president of Air France-KLM Cargo with effect from March 1, insists that neither is the case.“It was a personal decision,” he says. “I decided that at the age of ...
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Hyderabad airport set to handle 100,000 tonnes
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) expects to cross the 100,000 tonnes milestone in the current financial year.The cargo facility at RGIA can handle 150,000 tonnes per annum and has a pharma zone for temperature-controlled cargo.While airfreight volumes in India have grown at a compound annual rate of seven per ...
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WCS: Airfreight volumes, a Chinese puzzle
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if China sneezes, the rest of the world will catch a cold, writes Martin Roebuck.The airfreight world may need to keep aspirin on standby for the rest of this year, analyst Gert-Jan Jansen, head of Seabury Cargo Advisory, warned delegates at the World ...
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Freighters to go as Thai takes a hard look at its fleet
Thai Airways is due to end full freighter operations later this month as part of a fleet reduction that will also see the axing of five A340-600 passenger planes.Consultants CH-Aviation said that the carrier planned to phase out its two remaining B747-400Fs as part of a restructuring that will see ...
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An-124 takes Siemens rotor for a spin
One of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 freighters moved a 50-ton rotor from Germany to Mumbai, India, for engineering and technology firm Siemens.The air carrier’s Engineering and Logistics Centre (ELC) assessed and approved a specially-designed transport skid to get the piece from Siemens' manufacturing plant in Muelheim, Germany, to Leipzig/Halle Airport, taking care ...
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Lufthansa lauds benefits of ANA partnership
More routes, more direct flights and faster service recovery are among the benefits of the new partnership between Lufthansa and All Nippon Airlines, said Matthias Brazel, director of business development at the Germay carrier.He said that the joint venture had effectively created two extra flights between Frankfurt and Tokyo every ...
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Qatar freighter is LA bound
Qatar Airways Cargo will launch a new freighter service to Los Angeles Airport (LAX) from April.The twice-weekly B777F to Los Angeles will become Qatar Airways Cargo’s fourth US freighter destination, alongside Houston, Chicago and Atlanta.Qatar Airways uplifted over 49,000 tonnes of airfreight from the US market in 2014 and it ...
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Lufthansa - Decision on B777F option this year
The B777F was the best – virtually the only – aircraft for Lufthansa's needs, says Lufthansa Cargo chief executive Peter Gerber, writes Chris Lewis.While the B747-8 suited carriers with long over-water stretches such as Cathay Pacific, for carriers such as Lufthansa for whom range was not an absolute priority, it ...