Bulgarian cargo carrier Bright Flight has based an An-26B freighter at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport (PAD), allowing urgent deliveries of up to 5.5 tonnes of freight to be transported at short notice to anywhere in Europe. This new chartered cargo service operates 24/7 from the airport, located in northwestern Germany. “The ad hoc charter flights are essential[…]
Puerto Rico seems like an island paradise, full of history, picturesque beaches and bright, sunny days. But for the past decade, this small Caribbean territory of the United States has seen its economy shrink by 14 percent, with employment dropping 12 percent over the same period, according to The Economist. The economic decline began in[…]
The International Air Transport Association released its airfreight market analysis for January 2016, showing a 2.7 percent year-over-year increase in worldwide cargo traffic (in freight tonne kilometers flown), slightly better than we had anticipated based on the results available from individual carriers, handlers and airports. David Harris, editor of our sister publication, Cargo Facts, gives[…]
The world’s first 727 (N7001U) makes its final taxi for takeoff from Paine Field. (Image by Chris Raezer Photography) Fifty-three years ago, a passenger plane with the registration N7001U rolled off the line at the Boeing plant outside Seattle and changed the history of short- to medium-range aviation history. Between that day in 1963 and[…]
Seeing new revenue opportunities for the rocky start of its Eurowings long-haul service, Lufthansa Cargo said it will begin selling belly space on some of its sister carrier’s routes, including service from Cologne/Bonn to Varadero, Cancun, the Dominican Republic, Phuket and Bangkok, starting at the end of this month. Low-cost carrier (LCC) Eurowings began expanding[…]
Like its fellow Swiss-based rival Panalpina, freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel ended up with a tidy profit at the end of 2015, in spite of a stagnant cargo market. But unlike Panalpina, which saw a 2.5 percent decline in air cargo volume, K+N’s success came largely from a 4.7 percent increase in airfreight demand top[…]
