More Tel Aviv flights from Montreal and Toronto for Air Canada
Air Canada is to significantly increase Tel Aviv services with seasonal flights from Montreal and daily year round frequencies from Toronto. The Montreal – Tel Aviv flights will operate twice a week from 22 June to 16 October and Toronto – Tel Aviv will become daily from the summer. Air Canada president and chief executive […]
Settlements approved in Canadian air cargo price fixing class action
Settlements reaching 29.6 million Canadian dollars ($22.5 million) have been approved for distribution as part of the Canadian Air Cargo Shipping Services Class Action. Courts in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec approved the settlements and the protocol to distribute funds as part of the class action against alleged price-fixing in the air cargo shipping market […]
New bellyhold cargo routes for Air Canada
Air Canada has added six new destinations to its international bellyhold network – including new routes to Europe, Asia and Africa. These include services from Toronto to Mumbai and Berlin; Montreal to Algiers and Marseille; and Vancouver to Taipei and Nagoya. The new services will launch for summer 2017, with the Montreal-Algiers and the Vancouver-Taipei routes subject […]
Air Canada to connect Montreal and China with Shanghai flights
Air Canada is to start its first direct service to China from Montreal with daily Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flights to Shanghai from 16 February 2017. The outbound flight, number AC17 will leave Montreal-Trudeau Airport at 13:30h, landing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 16:40h the next day. The Shanghai – Montreal service, number AC18 leaves […]
Halifax Stanfield and Incheon expand sister airport agreement
Halifax Stanfield International Airport has celebrated six years of a ‘sister airport’ agreement with Incheon International Airport by further expanding the deal. Since initially starting the agreement in 2010, cargo exports have been a major focus area, with live lobster exports to Asia doubling between 2010 and 2015. Halifax says the value of live lobster […]
Hearts race as Porsche 356 flies from Belgium to Canada
Hearts were racing when international freight forwarder a. hartrodt (Belgium) arranged the transportation of a classic Porsche 356C to fly from Brussels to Montreal. The classic car, which was built in 1965 and had been lovingly restored by the Porsche Centre Brussels Classic, flew in the bellyhold of an Air Canada flight for delivery to […]
Celebi takes on new carrier handling contracts
Ground handler Celebi has won new contracts and has started handling cargo for a range of different carriers. Celebi Hungary processed freight for the first time for Air Canada on 11 June and will handled three bellyhold flights a week for the carrier in the summer season in Budapest. CelebiNas-Mumbai welcomed the inaugural service of Singapore […]
Air Canada and Cargojet to run freighter from Canada to LATAM
Air Canada and Cargojet today announced they are finalising a commercial arrangement that will see Air Canada Cargo introducing dedicated freighter services from Canada to Latin America and Europe with a Boeing 767-300ER Freighter operated by Cargojet. Air Canada Cargo will become the only provider of direct scheduled freighter service between Canada and Latin America. The […]
Gatwick’s cargo falls again in February
Gatwick Airport has had another difficult month with cargo volumes falling by 12.2 per cent to 5,628 tonnes in February. The double digit fall in February follows from January, when volumes were down 9.7 per cent to 5,231 tonnes. On a 12 month basis from March 2015 to February 2016, cargo volumes are down 18.1 […]
15 carriers to make the switch to eAWBs, Descartes says
Fifteen airlines are to switch to the electronic air waybill (eAWB) from 1 March this year as the preferred method for shipping airfreight, but there remains barriers to adoption notably from forwarders, according to Descartes. Air Canada, Air France-KLM, American Airlines, British Airways/Iberia (IAG), Cathay Pacific, Delta Air Lines, Etihad Airways, Finnair, Lufthansa Cargo, Qatar […]
‘Contradictory’ price fixing cartel fine overturned
Fines of 790 million euros ($868 million) imposed by the European Commission against airlines for fixing fuel and security surcharges has been overturned, as the decision was ‘contradictory’. In 2010, the commission had fined Air Canada, Air France, British Airways, Cargolux, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, LATAM Airlines Group, Martinair, Qantas, SAS Cargo and Singapore Airlines […]
Boeing launches biofuel project using Canadian forestry industry waste
Boeing is working with the University of British Columbia, SkyNRG, and members of Canada’s aviation industry, on a project to use waste from the country’s forestry industry as biofuel. The parties involved will use leftover branches, sawdust and other waste to create sustainable biofuel. The consortium includes Boeing, Air Canada, WestJet, Bombardier as well as […]
