Most carriers make a big deal of any new aircraft they receive with a ribbon-cutting ceremony or a water-cannon salute. But when you’re an MRO professional and pilot who also happens to be the leader of a pioneering heavy-metal band, such fanfare won’t due. Bruce Dickinson, chairman of the U.K.’s Cardiff Aviation and frontman for[…]

Atlas Air 747-8F Artwork After a solid performance in 2015 and a robust fourth quarter, William Flynn, president and CEO of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWW), said the company is positioned for earnings and growth in 2016. After adjusting for a US$100 million one-time charge to settle a class-action lawsuit, presumably the cargo cartel case[…]

Crime Scene – Do Not Cross Lock up your cargo. According to the Transported Asset Protection Association’s (TAPA) incident information service, the reporting of cargo theft and crimes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) reached a five-year high last year, with 1,515 recorded freight thefts, representing a 37.4 percent increase over 2014’s figures.[…]

Just over two weeks since Brazil’s antitrust agency, CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica) approved of the planned FedEx takeover of TNT, an appeal has been filed by competitor, UPS.  This could muddy the waters on the US$4.8 billion deal, which so far has been moving forward without objection. FedEx and TNT said, jointly, that[…]

Less than a month since Ireland’s ASL Aviation Group received an air operator certificate for India’s Quikjet, freighter services have commenced as of Feb. 17. The cargo flight begins in Bengaluru, connecting to Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad with four daily flights. Quikjet was formed as a startup in 2007, backed by various Indian investors, according[…]