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Qatar Airways Cargo flies into Halifax and New York
Qatar Airways Cargo has launched new freighter services to New York JFK and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.The service to New York and Halifax will operate on a weekly frequency, flying out of Luxembourg, the cargo carrier’s European hub, every Wednesday.A Boeing 777-200 freighter offering 103 tonnes of cargo capacity will ...
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ACS supports heavy metal movements
Broker Air Charter Service (ACS) has completed its role in the movement of rock band Iron Maiden around the world on its The Book of Souls tour.ACS was asked by the band towards the end of last year for its help with the tour. The services of a customised Boeing ...
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Pemco to be partner for Mitsubishi’s MRJ
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation has named Pemco World Air Services as a preferred MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) service provider for the MRJ aircraft range.Florida-headquartered Pemco, best known in air cargo circles for its passenger aircraft to freighter conversions, will offer airframe related MRO services to North American MRJ customers, such ...
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Lockheed hails Bravo aircraft deal
Brazilian-US defence and logistics group Bravo Industries signed a deal to buy ten Lockheed Martin LM-100J Super Hercules commercial freighters at today’s Farnborough Air Show in the UK.Bravo’s Logística division, which consists of Bravo Cargas and Bravo MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul), will operate the LM-100J in Brazil.Bravo’s president and ...
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Heathrow investor says it is ready to finance expansion
The group chief executive officer, Bill Galvin, and chief investment officer, Roger Gray, of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), one of London Heathrow’s shareholders, have written to British prime minister Theresa May to encourage her and her Government to commit to the airport’s expansion.The two executives reiterate the commitment of ...
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Turkish restarts flights to the US as FAA lifts restrictions
Following the decision on Monday 18 July of America’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to withdraw its prohibition on carriers flying into the country either directly or via a third country from Turkey, the latter’s flag-carrier moved quickly to relaunch flights into the US.All scheduled flights to the US operated by ...
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Lufthansa Cargo: much more than just the ‘basic’ offering
Lufthansa Cargo is to begin offering a new product for the shipping of general air cargo from September this year.To be called td.Basic and only available via online booking, the German freight-carrier said that it will offer “high Lufthansa quality at extremely attractive prices”.Those ‘attractive prices’ will be made possible ...
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NewsAirfreight volumes on the up for K+N
Logistics services giant Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) has reported its half-year results for the six-month period ending 30 June.The Switzerland-headquartered company said that while net turnover fell year on year from CHF8,225m ($8,366m) to CHF8,147m ($8,287m), gross profit rose by 8% compared to the first half of 2015, improving from CHF3,018m ($3,070m)to ...
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NewsAnalysis: ASL swoops on TNT Express freighter fleet
Dublin-based aircraft lessor ASL Aviation Group has boosted its freighter fleet with the purchase of the airline operations of TNT Express for an undisclosed amount.The deal, which was part of FedEx’s €4.4bn acquisition of TNT completed in late May, will see ASL take over the fleets of TNT Airways in ...
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NewsE-commerce fuels Chinese airport ambitions
All flight paths lead to China, with freighter operators stacking up to make a smooth landing, despite a softening in the Chinese economy.Leading the charge is European all-cargo operator Cargolux, with its planned China joint venture due to launch with three Boeing 747Fs in the second half of 2017. It ...
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NewsCargojet: an overnight success
Cargojet has Canada covered, literally.While its core product remains domestic overnight airport to airport freighter capacity, Cargojet is expanding its modest international network in partnership with Air Canada.It is using spare daytime Boeing 767 freighter capacity from its core overnight network, including the new Canada Post and Purolator agreement, launched ...
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NewsEdmonton, investing for growth
Canada’s Edmonton International Airport (EIA) completed its sixth consecutive year of cargo growth in 2015 and saw a “very strong” 2016 first quarter for freighter traffic despite a downturn in the global oil and energy sector.EIA’s volumes in 2015 grew by 5.2%, totalling a 32% increase over a six-year period.The ...
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NewsMarket analysis: North America
After the boom in demand for freighters experienced in 2015 as US west coast seaport workers launched industrial action, 2016 was always going to suffer in comparison, writes Damian Brett.Nonetheless, there has been plenty for the freighter industry based in North America to get excited about, with a new face ...
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Video: Need for speed drives e-commerce growth says IAG Cargo
IAG Cargo has seen “enormous growth” in e-commerce traffic in the past five years, says manager of global products, Daniel Johnson, in the latest of the carrier’s ‘talking head’ videos.The airline is moving goods ordered online for retailers such as Amazon and Asos, not only to the consumer, but often ...
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Buyers wanted for world’s emptiest airport
Could Sri Lanka’s Mattala Rajapaksa International’s status as the world’s most underused airport finally be over? The brand new hub, opened in March 2013, and has racked up heavy losses ever since.Now, though, the Sri Lankan government says it is looking for expressions of interest from investors and, according to ...
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Maiden flight for CRJ200SF converted freighter
Aeronautical Engineers Inc. (AEI) has completed the maiden flight of its CRJ200SF passenger to freighter conversion aircraft which has a main deck payload of up to 6.7 tonnes.The test flights mark the final stages in the overall certification process, of which AEI expects US Federal Aviation Authority certification to “follow ...
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Terrorism and falling yields dent airline confidence
Airline finance chiefs and heads of cargo said that they do not expect profits to improve over the next 12 months, according to IATA’s latest quarterly survey of airline business confidence.The results, based on a survey carried out in early July, also show that industry profitability fell slightly year-on-year during ...
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Plane-spotting
These days, air travel has become mundane and few booking systems allow passengers to search for and select a preferred aircraft type. But there is one exception: the Airbus A380.The giant of the skies can quicken the pulse of even the most jaded business traveller and, recognising this, the Toulouse ...
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Cathay cargo up in June but half year trend is down
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried 151,130 tonnes of cargo and mail in June, an increase of 7.1% compared to the same month last year.Load factor rose by 1.6 percentage points to 64.3% as capacity increased by only 2.1% while cargo and mail revenue tonne kilometres increased by 4.8%. But over ...
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Strong April lifts Schiphol
Cargo volumes at Amsterdam Schiphol grew 1.6% in the first six months of the year, to reach 796,801 tonnes, while the June figure jumped 2.5% year on year, to 135,528 tonnes.The Netherlands airport said the figures were helped by a particularly strong April, in which 137,666 tonnes of freight transited ...