Swiss WorldCargo to upgrade USA and Japan flights
Swiss WorldCargo will increase capacity to the USA and Japan with new flights to Osaka and Washington DC, and upgrades to Tokyo and Miami services. The freight division of Swiss International Air Lines will launch the Osaka and Washington flights in March 2020, using an Airbus A340-300 on the former and an Airbus A330-300 on […]
Emirates navigates more cargo into Kabul
Emirates Flight Operations has developed a navigation technique to allow the airline to carry additional cargo into Kabul International Airport. The missed-approach procedure has replaced an older technique that required cargo bound for Kabul to be offloaded in Dubai during low-cloud or poor visibility weather conditions. The airline operates a daily flight to Kabul with […]
Swiss WorldCargo 777-300ER hits the road in Japan
Swiss WorldCargo is promoting its Boeing 777-300ER in Japan with a special livery on Road Feeder Service trucks operated by Hirano Logistics. Developed in partnership between Swiss WorldCargo and Hirano Logistics, the branded truck operates on different routes throughout Japan. The temperature controlled truck ensures the safe and effective handling of various goods including pharmaceuticals. […]
Jet Airways flies record volumes on flight to London
Jet Airways has entered the record books with the highest uplift of cargo by an Indian carrier in a single flight to London. The airline carried 45 tonnes on a flight from Mumbai to London operated by a Boeing 777-300ER, with cargo including perishables, engineering goods, garments, courier, leather goods and consolidated cargo. Jet Airways […]
Emirates touches down in Edinburgh with daily services
Emirates has touched down in Edinburgh for the first time, with the Boeing 777-300ER landing in the Scottish capital just before 3pm on 1 October. Flight EK023 was welcomed with a water cannon salute and a launch event hosted by Emirates divisional senior vice president commercial operations West, Hubert Frach; Emirates UK divisional vice president, […]
Emirates touches down at Stansted Airport
Emirates’ first flight to London’s Stansted Airport touched down on Friday 8 June, bringing the total number of flights between Dubai and the London airports to 10 a day. The Boeing 777-300ER touched down just before 14.00h, making Stansted the 7th airport in the UK from which Emirates operates, and the third in London after […]
Jet Airways adds third daily Heathrow – Mumbai flight
Jet Airways has added a third daily connection between Heathrow Airport and Mumbai, starting on 29 October. The airline is the first Indian carrier to operate three daily flights between London and Mumbai – India’s economic and financial capital, and the new service complements Jet’s daily operations to Mumbai and Delhi, boosting its capacity by […]
Qatar Airways firms up order for 2 Boeing 747-8Fs as part of $2.16bn spend
Qatar Airways has firmed up the order of two Boeing 747-8 Freighters and four 777-300ERs, which are valued at $2.16 billion at list prices. The carrier says this is a sign of its continued expansion and contribution to the US economy, and adds to its fleet of nearly 100 Boeing widebody aircraft and its more […]
Paterson chosen as Virgin account manager for Melbourne
Jarrod Paterson has joined Virgin Atlantic Cargo as account manager – Melbourne to support the launch of Melbourne services by Virgin Australia. Virgin Atlantic is responsible for long-haul cargo sales and management services for Virgin Australia, which has served Los Angeles from Melbourne with five Boeing 777-300ER flights a week since April and five Airbus […]
Aeroflot cargo and mail grows 40% in first half of 2017
Aeroflot’s cargo and mail volumes continue to grow with a 39.2 per cent increase in June to 17,946.4 tonnes. The growth came from international volumes, which were up 81.9 per cent to 11,503.9 tonnes, while domestic cargo and mail saw a dip of two per cent to 6,442.5 tonnes. Cargo and mail volumes were up […]
Emirates to start second daily flight to Brussels Airport
Emirates is to increase bellyhold capacity to Belgium with a second daily Boeing 777-300ER flight to Brussels Airport from 29 October. The second flight will enhance links between Brussels and Dubai, transporting pharmaceuticals, perishables such as chocolates, and automotive parts, which will leave Brussels at 20.15h and arrive in Dubai at 05.55h. The airline launched […]
Widebody 777 belly routes added by United Airlines
United Airlines has grown its network after adding additional widebody routes utilising a Boeing 777-300ER – which is set to boost belly cargo volumes. The US carrier will service San Francisco – Beijing beginning 6 September 2017, San Francisco – Frankfurt from 5 October 5, 2017 and New York/Newark – Tokyo Narita from 28 October 2017. Boeing 777-300ER aircraft are already […]
Jet Airways expands cargo capacity on Heathrow belly route
Jet Airways is to add a third daily flight between Mumbai International Airport and London Heathrow Airport using a Boeing 777-300ER. The Indian carrier says the new service will boost cargo capacity between the UK and India by almost 33 per cent, allowing the airline to capitalise on the growing round-the-year demand being witnessed between the UK […]
Virgin strengthens Australian team with new Sydney account manager
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has strengthened its Australian team by picking Amanda Matar as account manager – Sydney. She joins as the airline increases its long-haul cargo sales and management services for Virgin Australia with the launch of five Boeing 777-300ER flights a week from Melbourne to Los Angeles in April. Matar reports to Pip Palmer, […]
ACS helps deliver Boeing 777 engine in Arctic climate
Air Charter Service (ACS) has arranged an Antonov AN-124 to transport the most powerful aircraft engine in the world to help a stranded Swiss International Airlines Boeing 777-300ER. The Swiss aircraft had been flying to Los Angeles from Zurich over Canada’s far northern regions when it suffered a mechanical problem with one of its engines and […]
Emirates to operate belly service to Phnom Penh in Cambodia
Emirates is to operate a new service to Phnom Penh in Cambodia from 1 July this year using a Boeing 777-300ER. The launch of daily services from Dubai to Phnom Penh will coincide with the introduction of a direct, non-stop route between Dubai and Hanoi in Vietnam. This adds to its freighter arm Emirates SkyCargo launching its […]
Aeroflot’s cargo recovers after difficult two years
Aeroflot’s cargo and mail volumes have recovered after two difficult years, handling 205,795 tonnes, a figure not seen since 2013. Cargo and mail had been 204,554 tonnes in 2013, before falling 18.7 per cent in 2014 to 166,262 tonnes, and another six per cent in 2015 to 156,335 tonnes before the 31.6 per cent recovery […]
Emirates to launch year-round Athens – Newark flights
Emirates Airline is to offer the only year-round non-stop service between Greece and the US with Dubai – Athens – Newark flights from 12 March. The daily Boeing 777-300ER service to Newark Liberty International Airport will provide 19 tonnes of bellyhold cargo capacity and is the first direct flight between the US and Greece since […]
Emirates to start third daily flight to Nairobi
Emirates Airline is to increase capacity in Africa with a third daily flight to Nairobi from 1 June. Flight EK717 will leave Dubai at 01.40h and arrive in the Kenyan capital at 05.40h, with the return flight, EK718 departing Nairobi and landing back in Dubai at 13.15h. The Boeing 777-300ER flight will provide 16 tonnes […]
Cathay Pacific to increase Gatwick and Manchester services
Cathay Pacific is to increase UK services with daily flights to Gatwick Airport and five flights a week to Manchester Airport from June. The airline launched four Airbus A350-900 flights a week to Gatwick in September, and will make the service daily from 1 June to cater for demand. The outbound flight will leave Hong […]
Iran Air orders 80 Boeings
Iran Air and Boeing have signed an agreement for 80 aircraft valued at $16.6 billion, with the first units scheduled for delivery in 2018. The order consists of 50 737 MAX 8s, 15 777-300ERs and 15 777-9s, and is expected to support tens of thousands of jobs directly associated with production and delivery, and nearly […]
Cathay Pacific flight diverted due to fears of cargo hold fire
A Cathay Pacific flight from London to Hong Kong had to divert to Novosibirsk over fears of a fire in the cargo hold. The airline says flight number CX250 from Heathrow Airport to Hong Kong International Airport diverted to Novosibirsk International Airport in Russia around six hours into the flight after a signal indicated a […]
Emirates says goodbye to its last Airbus A330
Emirates has retired the last of its Airbus A330s and A340s from its fleet, and now operates just Boeing 777s and Airbus A380s passenger aircraft with bellyhold capacity. Since January 2015, it has retired 18 A330s and five A340s, phased out at the average age of 16.5 years, below the industry average of 25 years. […]
Emirates to fly A380s to Manchester three times a day
Emirates SkyCargo is to upgrade Manchester Airport flights to a thrice-daily Airbus A380 route as it celebrates cargo volumes growing to over 22,000 tonnes a year. The third A380 will replace the existing Boeing 777-300ER on 1 January 2017 and will make it the fourth fully A380 service in Europe after London, Paris and Barcelona. […]
Emirates to restart flights to Conakry
Emirates will restart services to Conakry on 30 October after a two year absence, using a Boeing 777-300ER. The route will offer 20 tonnes of cargo capacity through Emirates SkyCargo with exports expected to include seafood, fruit, vegetables and textiles, and imports include mobile phones, pharmaceuticals and mining equipment. The flight will depart Dubai at […]
Ethiopian to operate first A350 on Heathrow – Addis Ababa route
Ethiopian Airlines will launch Airbus A350 XWB operations on its daily London Heathrow – Addis Ababa route from 14 August. Airbus says the aircraft, Ethiopian’s first A350 and the first one for Africa, which has been named ‘Simien Mountains’, improves performance with its airframe and simplified systems to optimise fuel burn, maintenance costs and reliability. […]
FIA16: Six more 737 MAX 8s for Air Lease Corporation
Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has ordered six more Boeing 737 MAX 8s at the Farnborough International Airshow, bringing its total orders to 118. The order is worth $660 million and three orders are new, with the others previously attributed to an unidentified customer. Boeing has orders for more than 3,200 737 MAXs and says it […]
Domestic volumes make up for international weakness at Aeroflot
Aeroflot’s domestic volumes continue to make up for international weakness, with cargo and mail increasing by 10.5 per cent in May to 13,077 tonnes. International volumes fell by 11.2 per cent to 6,500 tonnes in May while domestic cargo and mail rose by 45.8 per cent to 6,577 tonnes. Year-to-date volumes increased by 14.2 per […]
Emirates upgrades Dakar flights to Boeing 777-300ERs
Emirates SkyCargo is to increase capacity to Africa by upgrading its four times a week Dakar services to Boeing 777-300ERs from 2 September. The service, which operates on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, is being upgraded from Airbus A340-300s, and will offer an additional 80 tonnes per week of cargo capacity. Emirates says Senegalese exports […]
LUG to handle JAL’s cargo in Frankfurt
LUG aircargo handling is to take over the cargo handling of Japan Airlines’ (JAL) flights and road feeder services at Frankfurt Airport from 1 July. The handling agent will handle JAL’s daily Boeing 777-300ER and Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner services with bellyhold capacity to and from Frankfurt, as well as the JAL Cargo’s road feeder services. […]
