Nairobi first African cargo airport 
Further to the African division of Airports Council International (ACI), which is composed of 69 regular members from 52 countries, managing more than 260 airports, and of 46 business partners, 2.15 million t of cargo transited through African airports in 2021, representing... more
Egyptair stops monkey flights
Thanks to the efforts of Peta, other animal protection organisations, and activists from around the globe, nearly every major airline in the world has stopped transporting monkeys to laboratories. A senior official from Egyptair has sent an e-mail to Peta US announcing that... more
WFS adds cargo capacity at Heathrow
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has increased its facility footprint at London’s Heathrow Airport after a 30% growth in volumes in the past year. WFS has signed a five-year lease on Building 578 in the airport’s cargo area, boosting its warehouse and office space by a... more
Good prospects for international air cargo
Nashville International airport (BNA) has begun the design phase of "New Horizon". Expected to cost an additional USD 1.4 billion and to be phased in over the next six years with a scheduled completion in late 2028, the new construction and renovation plan includes two... more
Qatar Airways augments Berlin services
The capital city of Germany, Berlin, is set to benefit from enhanced connectivity by Qatar Airways. The company will raise the number of Berlin services from daily to ten weekly flights, starting on 12 August 2022, and increase them to eleven weekly flights on 6 September 2022.... more
Cathay Pacific: first on new third runway at HKIA
Cathay Pacific operated the very first commercial flight to land at the new third runway of the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) a month ago. The landing of flight CX3251 from Shanghai (Pudong), operated by a Boeing 747-400F freighter was conducted as part of the operation... more
Fire in the cargo hold
50 years ago, on 14 August 1972, Germany witnessed its deadliest plane crash to date. All 156 people on board were killed when an Il-62 of the GDR airline Interflug crashed near Königs Wusterhausen to the south of Berlin. The cause was a fire in the rear underfloor cargo... more
Fresh impetus for air transport of heavy cargo
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), a British company that designs and manufactures airships, is launching a new partner programme to enable key partners and customers to influence, optimise and accelerate the design specification of Airlander 50. Unlike HAV’s first aircraft,... more
Danger looming for air cargo? 
New Foca air cargo regulations to enter into effect in 2023. Regulations promulgated by the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (Foca, Bundesamt für Zivilluftfahrt, Bazl) don’t quite seem to have made it into people’s minds yet. On 1 January 2023 a system change will take... more
Inspiration I: the return of the airships
While airships were able to fill the empty headlines in the popular media during the summer with the recent deal between British manufacturer HAV and Spanish regional airline Air Nostrum, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his company LTA Research (after "lighter than... more