NAM and Astral sign wet lease deal for B747F with Air Atlanta
Network Airline Management (NAM) and Kenya-based Astral Aviation have signed a long-term wet lease with Air Atlanta Icelandic adding a factory-built, nose-loader B747-400 Freighter to their existing managed fleet of three MD11Fs. The B747-400F made its inaugural flight from London Stansted Airport to Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport yesterday, expanding NAM’s capacity to East Africa. […]
Atlas Air places B747F with DHL Global Forwarding
Atlas Air Worldwide has announced the aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) placement of a Boeing 747-400 Freighter with DHL Global Forwarding. The 747-400F will be operated by Atlas Air, and fly on behalf of DHL Global Forwarding through an ACMI agreement. The new service will commence this month and serve routes between the US, […]
Atlas Air to operate a 2nd 747F for NCA
Atlas Air has entered into an agreement to operate a second Boeing 747-400 Freighter for Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA), with an opportunity for additional aircraft in the future. This aircraft will be flown on key routes across the transpacific connecting Asia and the US Service is scheduled to begin in September 2017. Atlas Air Worldwide […]
Sky Gates Cargo Airlines grows fleet by adding a B747F
After launching services between Russia, Europe and The Far East at the end of last year Sky Gates Cargo Airlines is going to increase their freighter fleet with another Boeing 747-400 Freighter. Senior vice president, Nidjat Babayev, responsible for the commercial development, says the next aircraft is going to be delivered by mid-June. It will be […]
Kalitta Air takes delivery of 747-400F from GECAS
Kalitta Air yesterday took delivery of the first of two leased Boeing 747-400F factory freighters from aircraft lessor GECAS. GECAS has previously provided debt financing to Kalitta on several 747-400’s (both factory and converted freighters), but this delivery is the first aircraft on lease to Kalitta from GECAS, adding capacity to Kalitta Air’s existing fleet […]
Cargolux profits fall to $5.5 million in 2016
Cargolux Airlines International net profits fell from $49 million in 2015 to $5.5 million in 2016 with scheduled freight tonne kilometres growing 10 per cent. The Luxembourg-based all-cargo airline says it experienced a robust fourth quarter, saying it registered 12,000 block hours flown and sold 96,000 tonnes in November alone, and was utilising aircraft for an […]
AirBridgeCargo 747 charter demand grows 47%
AirBridgeCargo (ABC) Airlines saw Boeing 747 Freighter charter demand grow 47 per cent in 2016, in addition to continued growth of scheduled operations. Its latest flights were on behalf of DHL Global Forwarding for Evatec, a producer of thin film coating solutions used in wireless communications, advanced packaging, MEMS, optoelectronics, high precision optics and power […]
ACT says no technical faults recorded with B747F that crashed
The board of directors of ACT Airlines has released an extended statement after the tragic crash of a Boeing 747-400 Freighter in Kyrgyzstan this morning, believed to have killed 37 people. The aircraft operates under the myCargo brand and came down near Manas Airport on its way from Hong Kong at 01.20 local time and had 85,000 kilogrammes of general […]
CargoLogicAir cleared for take-off and set for five 747F’s by 2018
CargoLogicAir has been cleared for take-off, having received its air operator certificate (AOC) from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The Volga-Dnepr subsidiary is based at London’s Stansted Airport and has taken delivery of one Boeing 747-400 Freighter from Air Castle, with a second to be added in July. It expects to have five 747Fs in […]
