Cincinnati lands 2020 International Aviation Forecast Summit

Cincinnati will host top airline executives from around the globe for one of aviation’s most prestigious events, the Boyd Group International Aviation Forecast Summit, August 23-25, 2020. Hundreds of major players in the global aviation industry, including representatives from airports, airlines, financial institutions, manufacturers, suppliers and mass media, will gather to explore exciting trends and […]

CSafe Global opens service centre in Memphis

CSafe Global has opened a technical service centre at Memphis International Airport to service RKN and RAP active containers. Multiple technical professionals have been deployed to Memphis to meet the increasing demand for CSafe containers across the region. Tom Weir, vice president of global operations at CSafe Global says: “Continuing CSafe’s passion and commitment to […]

Business gets a warm reception in Anchorage

With its geographic location, you may assume Alaska is unbearably cold but Jim Szczesniak insists it is warmer than you think. The airport manager for Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, who took over from John Parrott in January last year, says Alaska’s largest city is warmer than his native Chicago. Like much of the industry, […]

American Airlines Cargo flies a bear-plane

American Airlines Cargo has flown 10 brown bears from Argentina to the USA, on their way to their new home in Colorado. The bears travelled from Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. They originated from the Mendoza Zoological Park, about 1,200 kilometres from Buenos Aires, and will end their […]

Pearson to lead B&H Worldwide’s American growth

B&H Worldwide has appointed Michael Pearson to the newly created role of general manager – Americas to drive growth plans in the region. Pearson has gained knowledge and skills in time-critical logistics and leadership by holding executive positions in both operations and sales. In his role at the Los Angeles office, he will provide additional […]

Virgin Atlantic Cargo adds capacity for summer 2020

Virgin Atlantic Cargo has announced its summer 2020 programme, which will feature extra flights to India, Africa and the USA. India will benefit from a second daily flight between London Heathrow and Delhi Indira Gandhi airports from 29 March. The Boeing 787 service to Delhi will depart Heathrow in the morning, and offer up to […]

Messe München launches transport logistics Americas

Messe München will launch a new international platform with transport logistics Americas, complementing TIACA’s air cargo forum. The platform for shippers, logistics service providers and logistics-related service providers will take place in Miami from 10 – 12 November 2020, and exhibition applications are now open. 5,000 square metres will be reserved for shippers, logistics service […]

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. […]

Lufthansa Cargo returns to Miami after 25-year break

Miami International Airport has welcomed Lufthansa Cargo back after a 25-year break, with weekly Boeing 777 Freighter flights from Frankfurt. The weekly service resumed on Tuesday 5 November, and adds to daily passenger flights. Germany is Miami airport’s top European trade partner by value, with imports and exports amounting to $2.2 billion. Carlos Gimenez, mayor […]

AA Cargo completes first phase of digital upgrade

American Airlines Cargo has completed the first phase of its largest investment with the role out of its management system. The system replaces the majority of legacy technology, narrowing 90 systems down to less than 10, upgrading customer experience and modernising the business. The transition affects more than 8,000 team members and more than 30,000 […]

Dachser earns IATA CEIV Pharma in Atlanta

Dachser Air & Sea has received IATA CEIV Pharma certification in Atlanta, USA, the fourth location to be certified in 10 months. The certificate in Atlanta follows Frankfurt, Germany in late 2018; and Mumbai and Hyderabad in India in mid-2019 to be certified. Timo Stroh, head of global airfreight at Dachser says: “Our locations in […]

Southwest Airlines keeps up with changing demand

Southwest Airlines has experienced strong growth helped by international expansion, and updating products on offer, says Wally Devereaux. The managing director of cargo and charters tells Air Cargo Week that the airline has grown on international routes and is seeing healthy maturity in those markets. Product offerings has been updated to include new options for […]

Hawaiian Airlines connects islands to the world

Representing the only US state located in the Pacific Ocean and composed entirely of islands, Hawaiian Airlines operates in a unique environment. The airline tells Air Cargo Week that Hawaii’s island economy relies heavily on imports such as perishables including dairy, meat, grains and produce. Other items coming into Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport […]

Costing a packet – selling to the USA

The UK’s supposed post-Brexit ‘white knight’, America, is actually imposing steep new taxes and price increases on goods and small parcels sent to the USA from overseas. The international delivery specialist ParcelHero says it will cost significantly more to mail to America and absorb the impact of new US duties next year. Britain may be […]

Emirates Delivers speeds up online shopping

Emirates SkyCargo has launched Emirates Delivers, an e-commerce platform to allow customers shopping from US online retailers to consolidate purchases for delivery. Available to individual or small business customers in the UAE, Emirates Delivers supports Dubai’s vision to become a global hub for e-commerce as envisioned under the Dubai Silk Road Strategy. The service is […]

FedEx Cross Border expands to three new locations

FedEx and BigCommerce join forces

FedEx Cross Border will expand its global e-commerce business to three new locations in the USA and the Netherlands. The new locations in Saddle Brook, New Jersey; Fontana, California and Venlo, the Netherlands give business to consumer merchants cost-effective transport services to access shoppers globally. The service includes flexible delivery options, end-to-end tracking, commercial and […]

UPS to invest $750 million in Louisville Worldport

UPS will invest $750 million at its Worldport base in Louisville, Kentucky including the construction of a $220 million aircraft maintenance hangar. The 262,000 square foot hangar will be able to accommodate two Boeing 747-8 Freighters, and will be built on leased land at the northwest corner of the airport, on the opposite end of […]

Chapman Freeborn delivers OBC team to LA

Chapman Freeborn has expanded the presence of its on board courier (OBC) service to Los Angeles, California to provide dedicated support for US customers. The OBC team delivers time-critical consignments of manufacturing components, prototypes and product samples with hand-carry couriers accompanying the shipment from pick-up to final delivery. Since launching the service in Germany in […]

A whole New World for GSAs

The US is something of a terra incognita as far as general sales agency is concerned, says local country manager at ECS Group, Francisco Hernandez. “In my eyes, the GSA markets in the US are in a very primitive stage compared to the rest of the world. There are still many untapped opportunities for airlines […]

Amazon to open Fort Worth Alliance regional air hub

Amazon is expanding in Texas with the opening of its regional air hub at Fort Worth Alliance Airport in October. The regional air hub is the first build-to-suit airport project in the Amazon Air network and is designed to support larger scale regional needs including sorting and infrastructure for multiple daily flights. The online giant […]

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 […]

Avianca Cargo to connect Bogota with Dallas

Avianca Cargo will start flights between Bogota and Dallas Fort Worth with two flights a week from 2 October. The Airbus A330-200 Freighter service will transport various types of cargo with its independent temperature-controlled decks. The airline says it selected Dallas Fort Worth due to economic growth and its central location within the US facilitating […]

UPS turns airports into foreign trade zones

UPS revenues jump in final quarter

UPS has converted four major US airport gateways into foreign trade zones (FTZ) and expanded its Zone Solutions services. Converting Chicago O’Hare, New York John F. Kennedy, Dallas Fort Worth and Los Angeles extends UPS’s FTZ-related capabilities beyond warehousing and distribution to help clients manage end-to-end processes from dealing with customs to inventory control. The […]

LATAM Cargo ups flights from Colombia and Peru

LATAM Cargo will strengthen its position in Colombia and Peru with extra freighter flights to the US and upgrading passenger flights to Spain. LATAM Cargo Colombia plans to add 12 frequencies between Bogota and Miami, with imports into Colombia increasing with eight freighter flights a week between Miami and Bogota. The expansion of Colombian services […]

Airglades cargo airport plan “substantially complete”

Airglades International Airport is one step closer to become an all-cargo airport after the Federal Aviation Administration deemed its application “substantially complete”. The application under the Airport Investment Partnership Program for the airport in Clewiston, Hendry County, Florida passed the milestone with the publication in the Federal Register for a 30-day notice-and-comment period ending on […]

Menzies Aviation and Norwegian renew US contracts

Menzies Aviation has renewed its contract with Norwegian Air for two years at four major US airports. The renewal will see Menzies deliver ground handling services at Newark Liberty International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Orlando International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport. Nearly 3,000 flights per annum will be serviced, and 18,000 tonnes of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Japan Airlines launches codeshare with Kalitta Air

Japan Airlines has launched a freighter codeshare with Kalitta Air, operating three times a week between Tokyo and Chicago. The flights between Tokyo Narita and Chicago O’Hare started on 1 August and are operated by one of Kalitta Air’s Boeing 747-400 Freighters. The services leave Chicago on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, arriving in Tokyo the […]

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