San Marino carrier expanding cargo fleet 
13 months after receiving the AOC of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino Executive Aviation (SMEA) has started operating the first of its two Airbus A330-300 cargo planes, which joined its fleet last month. The aircraft is registered as T7-ULS, to remind observers of the name... more
Final farewell for Hawaiian’s ‘Ohana operations
Hawaiian Airlines won’t restart its ‘Ohana by Hawaiian passenger services between Honolulu and Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i, as well as its statewide ATR freighter cargo service. Freighter services with ATR 72 aircraft were suspended in November 2020 and passenger services with ATR 42... more
Ready for return of air cargo
Qatar Airways' resumption of four-weekly Atlanta (ATL) flights today, 1 June 2021, marks the full return of the airline’s pre-pandemic US network increasing its gateways to 12, two more than it operated before Covid-19. The airline will also be increasing frequencies to Boston,... more
Taking precautions before summer heat
ULD management services provider Jettainer has extended its long-standing management partnership with Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, to manage the carrier’s cool containers. Exactly one month ago, Jettainer’s "cool&fly"... more
Unmanned aviation partners in Ireland
Several partners from the UK and Ireland - Skyports, an air taxi and cargo drone vertiport provider, Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI), drone training and certification body Avtrain, and Shannon Group’s international aviation services centre - have signed a MoU to establish... more
Atran takes over two more B737-800BCF
Volga-Dnepr Group member, express cargo carrier Atran Airlines took delivery of two 737-800 Boeing converted freighter from GE Capital Aviation Services (Gecas) in May. They join the two B737-800BCF freighters both partners announced in October of 2018 and which entered... more
Transporting an aircraft from Brazil to Florida
Antonov Airlines has transported parts for an aircraft in cooperation with DB Schenker Brazil from Viracopos, Brazil to Miami, USA, with one week’s notice for planning and executing the project. The unusual cargo was dismantled into consignments with dimensions that met the... more
Not only flowers from Colombia to Amsterdam
L&L International de Colombia has reported a recent collaboration with Eastway Global Forwarding, its Irish partner in the UFO network, for the air shipment of two aircraft engines. Each engine had a gross weight of 13.1 t and dimensions of 4.9 x 3.2 x 2.98 m. The... more
Air-Ports under the hammer 
The process was put on the back burner during the outbreak of Covid-19; but now it has returned to centre stage again. In April 2021 alone five port terminals, including inland waterway hubs, were auctioned off. On top of this the concessions for 22 small and medium-sized... more
Milestones for A400M
Three and a half years after the handover of its 50th A400M, Airbus has reached 100 deliveries with MSN111, the tenth A400M for the Spanish air force. The ferry flight from Seville to Zaragoza, where the Spanish A400M fleet is based, was performed on 24 May. In the same week,... more