Novosibirsk Tolmachevo to develop cargo services

As Russia’s second busiest freight airport, Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport dominates the technical landing market for freight flights between Europe and Asia. Head of cargo and mail department Igor Knyazhevskiy tells Air Cargo Week that so far this year, cargo and mail is up 4.7% and growth is expected to reach 6% by the end of […]

Lufthansa Cargo adds summer freighter connections

Lufthansa Cargo will be adding freighter connections for the summer, putting the two new Boeing 777 Freighters into service. Capacity will increase 10% with increased flights across Asia, the Americas Africa utilising Lufthansa Cargo and AeroLogic’s freighter capacity on the summer schedule starting on 31 March. In Asia, two flights a week will be added […]

Lufthansa Cargo launches two weekly freighter flights to Osaka

Lufthansa Cargo is increasing its presence in the Japanese market by adding two weekly freighter flights to Osaka. The Osaka services complement the existing daily freighter flights to and from Tokyo Narita as well as passenger flights to Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo Haneda and Nagoya. The new route is operated from Frankfurt via Novosibirsk to Osaka on […]

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 […]

Cargolux Italia adds second weekly flight to Zhengzhou

Cargolux Italia has started a second weekly flight from Milan (Italy) to Zhengzhou (China), leaving on Sunday and travelling via Novosibirsk (Russia). Flight number C8 8777 leaves Milan Malpensa Airport on Sunday at 11.50h and is the second weekend flight to Zhengzhou. It is also the first Cargolux service to Russia. Cargolux says it is […]

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