ASG member adds charter and OBC capabilities 
Chapman Freeborn, a global aircraft charter specialist and company of the Cyprus-headquartered Avia Solutions Group (ASG), has signed an agreement to acquire Arcus Air Logistics and Arcus Air OBC from the Arcus Air Group. Offering ad-hoc air cargo charter and on board... more
Cargo link between Northwest and Northeast
Pittsburgh airport (PIT) in Pennsylvania is expected to sign an agreement to expand its collaboration with another airport – 4,000 miles away in Alaska. The agreement, with Anchorage airport (ANC), aims to boost sales and marketing efforts at both airports, with a particular... more
Toowoomba's big points
Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport (WTB), the home of Queensland’s only dedicated B747-8F international freighter service, operated by Cathay Pacific Cargo, attracts cargo-only passenger aircraft services. After Cathay Pacific's arrival with a B777 widebody last Sunday, 14 June... more
Novel passenger transport system takes to the skies
The Max Bögl group has sent the first two-section vehicle of the Transport System Bögl with one of the world’s largest transport aircraft to its place of operation in China. This is the next milestone for the finalisation of the demonstration track in Chengdu. The novel... more
Artifact from Iran intercepted at US airport
Exactly one month ago, on 19 May 2020, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville, KY inspected a shipment from the UK, containing an antique amber glass bottle purporting to be from the 9th-10th century. An expertise revealed that the bottle was actually... more
Latam Cargo keeps Argentina connected
As a result of current market conditions, exacerbated by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the difficulty of building structural agreements with local industry actors, which has made it impossible to foresee a viable and sustainable long-term project, Latam Airlines... more
East Midlands-based airline strengthens fleet
UK specialist aviation services provider RVL Group has increased its capacity with the addition of a further Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft to its East Midlands Airport (EMA)-based fleet. It brings to four the number of King Air aircraft in operation with RVL, and adds... more
Construction begins at biggest Baltic airport
Construction of DHL's regional facility was started at Riga airport (RIX) last week. The centre will be among the most advanced express shipment handling and logistics centres in the Baltics. The agreements provide that in cooperation between RIX, DHL Latvia and Castor... more
Very international charter operation
The Hong-Kong-based U-Freight Group chartered a reconfigured Russian passenger aircraft to airfreight over 2,000 cartons of urgently needed PPE from China to the USA. The client, one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of quality laboratory equipment and... more
‘Preighting’ plus pooling 
The market is still suffering from a dearth of intercontinental airfreight capacities. In March, the forwarder Fracht AG and Swiss WorldCargo started close collaboration on new airfreight options from China to Europe and the Americas. Sebastian Furler, Paolo Spagnuolo and Omar... more