When a tiger swallows eight cheetahs 
A B747, whose nose had been decorated with a gigantic face of a tiger during its time with the Russian Transaero Airlines, which went bankrupt in 2015, transported five female and three male cheetahs from Namibia to India at the end of last week. The animals, which were... more
Air Belgium partners with WFS in South Africa
Air Belgium is partnering with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Johannesburg and Cape Town for the launch of its first services to South Africa. The airline has awarded a three-year contract to WFS to provide cargo handling for the 1,600 t per annum forecast to be carried... more
Continuing to catch up 
Iata ranks leading cargo airlines post Covid-19. Iata’s member airlines improved their air cargo performance when measured in ftk by approximately 18.7% last year, compared to 2020. The improvement vis-à-vis the previous (pre-pandemic) year stood at 6.9%. Some airlines are still... more
Plans for intercontinental capacity clarified
PSI Air 2007, a Philippine airlines that began flying in 2020, has acquired its first widebody jet, a B777F, to be used in launching in-house intercontinental cargo flights. In its application to the US department of transportation for exemption authority and a foreign air... more
Vallair acquires A321 for part-out in France
Mature asset specialist Vallair has purchased an Airbus A321 (MSN 1008) for imminent part-out. The 1999 vintage aircraft was previously operated by Atlas Global and managed by True Aero. The airframe will be fully disassembled at Vallair’s facility in Montpellier, under the... more
US cargo airlines: few job losses in July 2022
US airline industry (passenger and cargo airlines combined) employment decreased to 767,772 workers in July 2022, 97 (-0.01%) fewer workers than in June 2022 (767,869) and 24,732 (3.33%) more than in pre-pandemic July 2019 (743,040). US cargo airlines employed 276,128... more
Hactl ups DG training standards
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), which gained the status as an ‘Iata accredited training school’ in 2003, has become the first cargo terminal operator in Hong Kong to achieve Iata’s new competence-based training and assessment (CBTA) centre certification.Following... more
111 years of Hamburg airport
Hamburg airport is celebrating its 111th birthday. But you wouldn’t be in Germany’s largest port city if the airport hadn’t initially been built with reference to airship travel. Thus the “LZ-10 Schwaben”, a zeppelin carrying large quantities of airmail for the first time, made... more
Turkish Cargo carries Togg to Argentina
As a logistics solution partner, Turkish Cargo is contributing to the globalisation journey of Togg, one of Turkey’s most ambitious manufacturing projects. Turkish Cargo transported Togg, an electric car that is set to become one of the country’s global brands, to perform its... more
Air Canada opens export acceptance at YYZ cold chain...
Air Canada Cargo’s state-of-the-art cold chain facility at Vancouver airport (YVZ) will launch its new export acceptance area today, 19 September 2022. With almost 2,800 sqm of end-to-end temperature-controlled shipping and storage, the upgrades include: An x-ray machine... more