IAG Cargo boosts Barcelona, new LAX route to Los Angeles and re-starts SFO
IAG Cargo, the cargo division of International Airlines Group (IAG) has launched a new route between Barcelona (BCN) and Los Angeles (LAX) as well as re-starting their popular route between Barcelona and San Francisco (SFO), for the first time since the end of September 2021. The routes operated by LEVEL from Barcelona run up to […]
DiCicco takes on The Ark’s bio-security compliance work
The ARK at JFK announces the appointment of Vincent DiCicco, DVM who will be joining the management team as veterinary and bio-security compliance officer, effective January 2, 2020. In this role, DiCicco will be responsible for ensuring The ARK’s compliance with best bio-security and animal welfare practices throughout The ARK’s operations, including the ARK Pet […]
Air Charter Service expands US headquarters
Air Charter Service (ACS) has expanded its US headquarters in New York to manage future growth of the nine offices across the region. The project of moving ACS’s second largest office is off the back of its most successful year in 2018. Richard Thompson, president of ACS Americas says: “Last year ACS Americas arranged just […]
WFS to handle United Airlines flights to Cape Town
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) will provide United Airlines with cargo handling services for the first-ever non-stop service by a US carrier between New York and Cape Town. The cargo handler has been awarded a three-year contract to serve its three times a week Boeing 787 flights, which will connect Cape Town with New York Newark. […]
Saudia Cargo awards multi-station contract to WFS
Saudia Cargo has awarded Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) a multi-station contract covering a number of major airports in Europe and the USA. The contract will see WFS handling over 160,000 tonnes of cargo per year and provide ramp handling for over 5,000 passenger and freighter flights. The three-year agreement extends WFS’s existing relationships at Paris […]
Atlas Air extends lease on New York headquarters
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has renewed and extended the lease on its Purchase, New York corporate headquarters. The plans include creating 100 additional jobs and enhancing the offices to accommodate its growing employee base and business growth. Purchase has been its headquarters since 2000 and Atlas Air employs 568 employees in New York. Eric Gertler, […]
Virgin and Delta to add flights for summer 2020
Virgin Atlantic and Delta Air Lines will boost UK-US flights for the summer of 2020, joining forces at London’s Gatwick Airport for the first time. Gatwick will become Delta’s seventh trans-Atlantic destination with flights from Boston starting on 22 May. One day before, Virgin will launch daily flights to New York JFK from Gatwick, with […]
DHL electrifies New York City and cleans up
ABB FIA Formula E celebrated its season finale in New York City on July 13 and 14, 2019 with a double header, two races in one weekend. As a founding and global logistics partner, DHL handled the entire logistics process. As part of a joint environmental initiative, in the run-up to the race weekend, DHL […]
WFS and Swiss WorldCargo open GDP facility at JFK
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) and Swiss WorldCargo have opened New York’s first GDP compliant pharma facility having achieved certification of Building 66 at JFK airport. The GDP certification at John F. Kennedy International Airport confirms WFS’s compliance with World Health Organization, IATA and Parenteral Drug Association quality standards for handling pharmaceutical and life science products, […]
New team players for American Airlines Cargo
American Airlines has made several new additions and promotions to its Cargo team. Lorraine Chin (pictured) joins as general manager, cargo operations at Los Angeles International Airport, taking on the new role after overseeing ramp operations and various other operational roles. On the east coast, Brian Cooley has been promoted to general manager, cargo operations […]
MSA Security to open three training facilities in 2019
MSA Security has expanded rapidly in 2018 and plans to open three more regional training centres in 2019 to keep up with market demand for Explosive Detection Canine Teams. Four new offices and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) licenced canine training facilities were opened in Hong Kong; San Diego, California; Memphis, Tennessee […]
American Airlines flies sweet chestnuts to the US
American Airlines Cargo has been carrying more than 10 tonnes of sweet chestnuts a day between Rome and New York to help US customers enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas. Used in the preparation of soups, desserts, flours and creams, the chestnuts originate in the Campania region of Italy, around Naples. They are harvested in the mountains […]
Budapest shows off opportunities to US businesses
Budapest Airport and LOT Polish Airlines have met with US business people and logistics companies to describe the opportunities on offer in the region. The opportunities come from LOT launching year-round services from Budapest to New York and Chicago offering 10-12 tonnes of belly cargo on each flight. The connections offer opportunities for American companies […]
American Airlines Cargo shows off Milan Malpensa facility
American Airlines Cargo has shown off its new facility at Milan Malpensa Airport, with customers from across Italy viewing the 53,000 square foot building. The building handles the airline’s daily flights to New York and Miami and growing cargo volumes from northern Italy have increased customer demand for direct services out of Italy. Frequently shipped […]
Townes’ touch down for a tradition
Since 1890, cadets at West Point, New York, the US Army’s training academy, have taken on navy midshipmen from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in one of the oldest and fiercest college football rivalries in America. On many occasions in its nearly 130-year history, sitting US presidents have attended the game. The Army-Navy […]
Qatar Airways to fly Bangladeshi garments to New York
Qatar Airways Cargo and Expo Freight Logistics have signed an agreement for weekly scheduled charter services flying a Boeing 777 Freighter between Dhaka and New York loaded with garments. Through the QR Charter service, Qatar Airways commenced services with more than 100 tonnes of cargo capacity on 13 May and will continue for a period […]
Exclusive: ECS Group’s Globe Air Cargo signs up Finnair stateside
In a key move in the Americas, ECS Group subsidiary Globe Air Cargo will represent Finnair Cargo in the United States from May 1. The airline, which serves major gateways at Chicago, Miami, New York and San Francisco directly from Helsinki, will utilise an Airbus 350 on the routes. The A350 has a maximum cargo […]
AFKLMP adds new routes to its summer schedule
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) will operate new routes for the summer providing connections to locations including Taipei, Fortaleza and Seattle. It will provide capacity from both hubs at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where the airline offers 1,115 weekly services to 116 unique destinations around the world. From Paris […]
Peli BioThermal adds eight US return points for Credo on Demand
Pelican BioThermal is expanding the reach of its growing Credo on Demand rental programme by providing additional points of return for reusable shipping assets to eight more US destinations. The temperature controlled packaging company has established new drop off points in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington. It says […]
ACS hits Broadway with new office in Manhattan
Air Charter Service (ACS) is strengthening its position in the US with its second office in New York, which is also its sixth in North America. The Manhattan office is on Broadway, just a few blocks from Times Square, and will be headed up by Jason Brice, who has worked for both ACS’s private jet […]
New service will bloom for Kenya
The Kenyan horticultural industry, especially its rose growers, look set to benefit from the launch of a Kenya Airways non-stop flight from Nairobi to New York in late October this year. It becomes the first airline to offer a non-stop flight between East Africa and the USA. “We are honoured to contribute to the economic […]
WFS commits to New York with new cargo terminal at JFK
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has demonstrated its commitment to New York by signing a 15-year lease on a 346,000 square foot cargo terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The handling agent is already one of the largest at JFK, handling over 650,000 tonnes of cargo a year for nearly 70 airlines at its nine […]
Lufthansa helps Deutsche Post and Santa Claus deliver presents on time
Lufthansa Cargo has ensured Christmas mail and parcels between Germany and the USA arrived on time with six additional freighter flights operated for Deutsche Post. From 13 November, Lufthansa Cargo has operated weekly MD-11 Freighter flights between Frankfurt and New York on Mondays, offering 60 tonnes of capacity, mainly filled with seasonal greetings and gifts. […]
Sheremetyevo posts 39.4% tonnage growth in first nine months
Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport handled more than 200,000 tonnes in the first nine months of 2017 – an uplift of 39.4 per cent on the same period last year. The airport says the increase in traffic volume was due to a significant increase in cargo turnover on international airlines, but domestic carriers saw a fall […]
Hurricane relief flights keeping ACS busy in the US
Air Charter Service (ACS) has had a busy last few weeks arranging humanitarian relief charters to hurricane-ravaged islands in the Caribbean. ACS president for the Americas, Richard Thompson (pictured below) says the charter broker has been involved with relief flights for Hurricane Irma charters. He explains: “We have been arranging lots of relief charter flights […]
Peru looking to start direct perishables service to NY and Miami
Asparagus and blueberries are set to be flown directly to New York and Miami in the US from Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport (TRU) in Peru. According to the online edition of Peruvian publication La Republica, they will be shipped on an Airbus A300 with 43 tonnes of capacity. TRU serves Peru’s third largest city, […]
First equine guests welcomed to The ARK at JFK
The ARK at New York’s JFK International Airport has received its first equestrian guests after the Equine Import Quarantine facility opened its doors. Approved by the US Department of Agriculture top-class horses were welcomed over Labor Day weekend. Also known as “3 Shades of Grey,” these three Irish horses named Sandy, Jackson and Polly, were originally […]
2017 could be an exciting year for United Cargo
United Cargo is excited by the opportunities 2017 could bring, especially with new routes boosting export capacity, regional sales manager for Latin America, Carlos Medrano (pictured) tells Air Cargo Week. A major source of excitement is new widebody non-stop service from Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini International Airport to New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport. The […]
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 […]
Gebruder Weiss USA starts operations in five locations
Gebruder Weiss has formed a country organisation in the USA in five locations following expansion projects in Germany, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. The brand commenced operations in the USA on 3 July, taking over Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles from a former US joint venture and opening two further locations in New York and […]
