One year as a freight-only carrier 
On 19 March 2020, United operated its first flight carrying cargo without passengers on board. While the passenger cabin was empty, its cargo hold was completely full, carrying more than 14.5 t of commodities from Chicago to Frankfurt. A year later, United Cargo has operated... plus
ANA Cargo: more transpac capacity
Starting in exactly one month, on 23 April 2021, All Nippon Airways (ANA) will employ B777F on cargo flights between Los Angeles and Tokyo NRT. The Japanese carrier opted to use the Triple Seven for this service because ot its maximum load capacity at roughly 100 t,... plus
New routes for holiday airlines
In April, Swiss will be using A340s operated by its holiday airline Edelweiss on unusually short routes: the wide-bodied aircraft are to be deployed around 20 times between Zurich and London Heathrow, carrying only cargo rather than passengers. More such flights are planned... plus
Alliance to ship vaccines
The global airline alliance Skyteam Cargo has launched "V Excellence", which covers the transport of Covid-19 shipments moved under the members' product family "customised vaccines", offering priority handling, and "specialised pharma", the solution... plus
Distributing vaccines in East Malaysia
In an effort to combat the Covid-19 pandemic with the vaccines, Utama Multimodal Logistics (UML), a Malaysian cold chain logistics services company focused on transporting pharmaceuticals, has chosen Teleport, the logistics venture of Air Asia Digital, to deliver vaccines... plus
Pharma follows perishables
A few weeks ago Oman Air was certified in accordance with ‘CEIV Fresh’, Iata's Center of Excellence for Independent Validators for fresh logisticscs (CEIV Fresh). Now the carrier has also been certified in accordance with Iata CEIV Pharma, confirming its capabilities to... plus
First flight of last A380
The last A380 manufactured in Toulouse took off on its first flight last week. The superjumbo flew from the Airbus plant in southern France to the Hamburg site.It will undergo tests in northern Germany before its handover, for which no date has yet been fixed. The 251st model... plus
Devoir et responsabilité 
Comme les temps changent: il y a deux ans, Andreas Haug, rédacteur de l’ITJ, rencontrait encore le patron du fret de Qatar Airways à Johannesbourg (cf. ITJ 13-14/2019, page 15), aujourd’hui les entretiens se font en ligne. Depuis, la compagnie est devenue officiellement le plus... plus
Air Tanzania finally to serve Southern China
Despite the difficult health situation worldwide, East African state carrier Air Tanzania plans to launch its service to Guangzhou in southern China tomorrow, 20 March 2021. It was originally scheduled to begin last September. The weekly outbound B787-8 flight will operate on... plus
Delivering vital vaccines from India to Egypt
Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, and global supply chain company EFL (Expolanka Freight) have carried a vital consignment of vaccines from India, the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines according to WHO, to Egypt. Leveraging Etihad... plus