All Magma Aviation Articles – Page 2

  • Tom Helyar
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    Magma Aviation promotes Helyar to chief strategy officer

    2021-08-17T10:07:54Z

    Image source: Magma AviationFreighter operator Magma Aviation has promoted Tom Helyar to chief strategy officer.Helyar joined Magma Aviation in 2011 as financial controller and climbed the ranks to commercial manager and then general manager in 2015.In his new role, he will "take a more in-depth strategic position within the business, ...

  • Conor Brannigan
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    Brannigan scoops deputy CEO role at Magma

    2021-07-13T11:25:29Z

    Conor Brannigan. Source: Chapman Freeborn/Magma AviationUK-based freighter manager Magma Aviation has appointed Conor Brannigan as its deputy chief executive.Brannigan joins Magma after two years at Cargolux where he was director strategic alliances and market Development. Brannigan also spent almost six years at Etihad in a global cargo position and began ...

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    Magma Aviation adds another B747 freighter

    2021-05-07T13:34:11Z

    Magma Aviation is adding an extra Boeing B747 freighter aircraft to its fleet in response to growing demand.The UK-based freighter manager has partnered with Plus Logistics Solutions Limited on the B747-400F, which increases its fleet to five all-cargo aircraft.It is the second freighter that Magma has added to its fleet ...

  • Magma Aviation
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    AviaAM Leasing acquires B747-400F on behalf of Magma Aviation

    2020-08-10T16:00:03Z

    AviaAM Leasing, part of the Avia Solutions Group, has purchased a Boeing 747-400F nose-loader freighter.The aircraft, which is part of the Magma Aviation fleet, accomplished its first commercial cargo flight on August 4.Magma Aviation designs and delivers bespoke air cargo transport solutions for routes worldwide. It believes that the new ...

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    Chapman Freeborn and Magma team up on the transatlantic

    2020-03-20T17:15:47Z

    Charter broker Chapman Freeborn has teamed up with sister company Magma Aviation to offer a series of transatlantic freighter flights.Magma Aviation will operate its B747Fs on nine weekly rotations from Europe to the US. The move comes following US president Donald Trump’s travel ban on 26 European countries, which resulted ...

  • Bluebird Nordic B737 freighter
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    Avia Solutions to buy freighter operator Bluebird Nordic

    2020-01-29T11:32:18Z

    Avia Solutions Group, which owns UK broker Chapman Freeborn and freighter operator Magma Aviation, is to acquire 100% of cargo carrier Bluebird Nordic and so step into the narrow-body ACMI cargo business.According to the Cirium database, Iceland-headquartered Bluebird Nordic, founded in 1999, operates one B737-300SF and four B737-400SFs.Gediminas Ziemelis, founder ...