Luxembourg becomes the EU’s 6th busiest cargo hub with 8.2% growth

Luxembourg Airport has become the sixth busiest cargo airport in the European Union with 8.2 per cent growth in 2016, with camels, lynx and tigers among the animals to travel through the hub. It handled 821,000 tonnes of cargo in 2016, allowing it to overtake Cologne-Bonn Airport and is only preceded by Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, […]

The Far East drives Luxair Cargo tonnage in 2016

Freighter rotations were up 9.7 per cent to 5,400 turnarounds in 2016 for Luxair Cargo at Luxembourg Airport (LUX), which helped drive tonnage. Executive vice president, Laurent Jossart (pictured) says 821,000 tonnes were handled last year, an uplift of 8.2 per cent compared to 2015, with the third quarter up eight per cent and last […]

Luxair Cargo aiming to exceed 800,000t in 2016

Luxair Cargo is confident it will handle over 800,000 tonnes of cargo in 2016 helped by increased rotations from Qatar Airways and other customers expanding, business development and contract manager, Antoine Decker tells Air Cargo Week (ACW). Describing the year so far, Decker says the Luxembourg Airport based handling agent has seen three per cent […]