Cargo increases 5.6% across IAG airlines in 2017

International Airlines Group (IAG) has ended 2017 with cargo tonne kilometres (CTK) increasing 5.6 per cent to 5.7 billion, with growth across all of its airlines. At British Airways CTK was up by 6.3 per cent to 4.5 billion, while Iberia rose by 1.2 per cent to 1.1 billion and Aer Lingus by 22 per […]

Leisure Cargo makes step towards independence from Air Berlin

Leisure Cargo says it has made an “important leap” towards complete independence from beleaguered Air Berlin as it has appointed 881 AWB of Condor as their new airway bill (AWB), which replaces the 745 paper of Air Berlin. The change will take affect from 1 October and Leisure Cargo says it customers and partners can “still rely […]

Air Berlin negotiations with Lufthansa and easyJet to continue

Air Berlin says negotiations with Lufthansa and easyJet will now continue until 12 October 2017 with the aim to takeover units of the German carrier. Air Berlin has received offers from Lufthansa for the subsidiaries Luftverkehrsgesellschaft Walter (LGW), the Austrian airline Niki and parts of Air Berlin, while low-cost carrier easyJet has submitted an offer to […]

Etihad sees 4% volumes rise in 2015

Etihad Airways’ cargo subsidiary, Etihad Cargo has seen freight and mail volumes increase by four per cent in 2015 to 592,000 tonnes. The airline added six new passenger locations with bellyhold capacity and freighter routes to Dakar, Nouakchott and Douala, bringing freighter-only destinations to 20. It took delivery of 15 aircraft, consisting of one Airbus […]