Partly sunny over Southern France 
With a cargo volume of 51,300 t (-14.1% compared to 2019), Marseille-Provence Airport (MRS) did not fare badly in 2020, ranking second nationally behind Paris CDG. For 2021, cargo director Jean-Marc Boutigny expects a growth of 7%, which should bring the hub in Southern... more
Unmasking creative smuggling methods
Over a recent period of six days, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Cincinnati airport seized several shipments with illicit cargo, each smuggled in a unique way. On 23 February, narcotics detector dog Bruno alerted to a shipment of cookware transiting from... more
"Qare" and commitment to people
Qatar Airways Cargo recently surpassed a milestone – it transported 10 million Covid-19 vaccines. This total includes doses for Unicef, as part of a recently-signed 5-year MoU to support the UN organisation’s Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative. Since December 2020, the carrier... more
Vallair expanding footprint in Central France
Vallair has signed a LoI with the Centre-Val de Loire region and the operator of Châteauroux airport (CHR). It will see the aviation service provider awarded a ten-year lease to operate an 8,500 sqm full-service aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul and cargo conversion hangar.... more
25 carbon-neutral flights around the world
American Airlines, which has been taking delivery of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at San Francisco airport since last summer and has committed to using 9 million gallons of SAF over the coming three years, has reached an agreement in principle with Kuehne+Nagel to allocate a... more
Getzner relies on Linz airport
Getzner Werkstoffe from Bürs in Vorarlberg (Austria) is currently carrying out its largest ever single order for an elastic building warehouse near Beijing. But that's not all: a special air freight shipment was required to deliver the vibration protection on time. The... more
5,000 cargo-in-cabin flights for 50,000 t of goods
The global air services provider Dnata has achieved a cargo milestone in Dubai. Since March last year, teams of over 500 specially trained employees have handled over 5,000 cargo-in-cabin flights, moving 50,000 t of shipments at DXB. With no existing industry standards to... more
IAG moves to Swissport in Berlin
Swissport and IAG have signed a three-year contract covering airport ground services for the airlines of IAG (British Airways, Iberia and Vueling) at the new Berlin Brandenburg International Airport in the German capital. The cooperation starts with three flights every weekend... more
Drones to fly for tribal government
The US civil aviation authority, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), through its Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (MMAC) in Oklahoma City, OK, partners with the Choctaw Nation to study how unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can best transport cargo, including parcels, at... more
Amerijet: regional vaccine distribution
Amerijet has delivered Covid-19 vaccines to the Caribbean and Central America on behalf of Mumbai-based Odyssey Logistics. The shipments were a part of India's gifted AstraZeneca vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. Tim Strauss, CEO of the first US cargo... more