LGG cargo surge in 2021 
Liege Airport saw strong renewed growth in 2021. Freight traffic reached 1,412,498 t (+26%), as opposed to 1,120,643 t in 2020. The amount of daytime flights and multi-modal options continued to increase, as did the number of humanitarian and pharmaceutical flights. The 2021... more
Shypple chooses Champ’s tracking solution
Netherlands-based digital freight forwarder Shypple has implemented Champ’s Traxon Premium Tracking. The software allows the user to register interest in a shipment and receive automatic status updates through its lifecycle. Premium Tracking enables high visibility with a... more
Advantages of a regional airport
To kick off the new year, Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport (PAD) is implementing another major cargo project. After the aid delivery of medical protective equipment to Namibia in July last year, Emotive Systems, based in Paderborn, now had three wide-bodied freighters of the Turkish... more
Bluebird enters widebody ACMI market
At the end of December 2021, Bluebird Nordic concluded lease agreements for three Boeing 777-300ER aircraft via its mother company Avia Solutions Group (ASG). At present, the aircraft are in passenger configuration but will proceed for conversion in 2024 and will be utilised as... more
Flytrex: FAA permits one-mile drone deliveries
Flytrex, which specialises in on-demand drone deliveries for food and retail, has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to expand its delivery radius to one nautical mile across all its operating stations in North Carolina, which permits the pioneering... more
Samskip's air freight team to focus on project cargo
Samskip is bringing together expertise from its Bremen-based project cargo business and its dedicated air freight team at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. The joint initiative creates a focus for capabilities that extend from express air freight delivery, through breakbulk, heavy... more
ACS volunteers keep test kit supplies flowing
Air Charter Service has arranged hundreds of successful charter flights containing test kits into UK over the past 18 months. When the staff shortages affecting the cargo industry put the schedule of two new urgent flights in doubt, the global aircraft charter company called on... more
Four Boeing 777 for Atlas Air Worldwide
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has ordered four new Boeing 777 freighters. The first of the 777-200LRFs is set to be delivered in November 2022 with the other three following in 2023. This investment will bolster Atlas’ 777 fleet, which currently includes 14 freighters that... more
No short-term injection of long-haul cargo services
Cathay Pacific Cargo will continue to implement very substantial reductions to its long-haul capacity in the first quarter of 2022, on account of the latest aircrew quarantine measures imposed by the government of the Hong Kong SAR, decreed in view of rising cases of infection... more
80 years ago – first commercial flight around the world
80 years ago, a Boeing 314 Clipper completed the first commercial flight around the world. When the flying boat set off from San Francisco CA (USA) on 2 December 1941 for a scheduled flight to Auckland (New Zealand), there was no sign yet of the feat – in contrast to 1929’s the... more