Damaged after return 
The Aviation Safety Network reports that a 32 year-old Boeing 737 freighter of the Indonesian Trigana Air Service, bound on a domestic flight for Makassar-Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (UPG), on the island of Sulawesi, suffered a runway excursion on landing at... more
New cargo terminal near VIE
Swissport has signed a seven-year lease for two air cargo terminals nearby Vienna airport (VIE). The adjacent 8,000 sqm warehouses are part of the Deutsche Logistik Holding's "SkyLog park Vienna" in the Fischamend region and will allow Swissport to expand its cargo... more
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... more
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,... more
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... more
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... more
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... more
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... more
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... more
Duty and responsibility 
My, how times have changed! Two years ago ITJ editor Andreas Haug had a good conversation with Qatar Airways’ head of cargo in Johannesburg (see page 15 of ITJ 13-14 / 2019) – and now all that’s possible is an online chat. In the intervening two years the airline has grown... more