Today Air Cargo World is excited to announce the 2016 Air Cargo Excellence Awards Finalists. This year, a total of 19 awards will be distributed to exemplary air cargo carriers and airports. Make your reservation here for March 14, at the Intercontinental Berlin Hotel, for an evening dedicated to celebrating the best in this industry.[…]
British cargo airline Cargologic Air received its Air Operator Certificate from the U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority and has taken to the skies with a charter flight to Italy this week. Cargologic Air – a subsidiary of AirBridgeCargo and part of Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group – is operating with a 747-400F, which it leased from Aircastle in[…]
A labor dispute with the union representing its cockpit crew has been cited as the main reason Cathay Pacific is drastically cutting back its expansion plans this year, according to reports from the South China Morning Post. Among the plans that have been put on hold are the introduction of daily flights to Manchester in[…]
Over the next few months, Berlin Tegel Airport will welcome a new ground-handling arrangement, called AeroGround Berlin, a newly formed subsidiary of Flughafen München (FMG), an airport group based in Southern Germany. Under the new arrangement, FMG’s ground-handling subsidiary, AeroGround Flughafen München, has acquired 100 percent of Tegel’s current ground handler, Acciona Airport Services Berlin,[…]
To enhance its same-day delivery capabilities, Rico Logistics, the U.K.-based subsidiary of worldwide logistics group TVS, acquired a majority shareholding in Circle Express. The day-to-day operations will not change; however, upper management will have a new reporting structure. Circle Express, one of the largest independent networks offering a collection and delivery service specifically targeted at[…]
In one of the clearest signs yet that confidence in the 2016 cargo market is weakening, Boeing said last week that it plans to scale back production of the 747-8 freighter from one aircraft per month to one every other month. The reason cited for the 50 percent reduction in production is the slowdown in[…]
