Industry pioneer renews GDP certification 
Cargolux Airlines, which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary of operations in 2020, has successfully passed its GDP renewal audit, attesting that the company’s management system fulfils the requirements of the EU directive "guidelines on good distribution practice of... more
US Navy expects newest COD carrier
The first CMV-22B Osprey, built by Boeing and Bell Textron, completed its first flight operations at Bell’s Amarillo Assembly Centre. The CMV-22B is the latest variant of the tiltrotor fleet, joining the MV-22 and CV-22 used by the US Marine Corps and US Air Force. The US... more
Drone system spreads its wings worldwide
Tiaca sustainability award winner, the Dutch start-up Wings For Aid has developed an innovative approach to the "last-mile" problem of reaching people in inaccessible areas to provide them with life-saving supplies, designing self-landing delivery boxes for unmanned... more
GSSA adds brains in Central and Eastern Europe
As from 1 February 2020, the Austrian GSSA Brainway and its subsidiaries in Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are joining the ATC Aviation Services Group. Among the airlines represented in this region are Saudi Arabian Airlines, United Airlines,... more
Indian cargo volumes fall by almost 3%
India’s airports handled 2.9% less airfreight last year than in 2018. As the country‘s airport authority AAI has now announced, the largest shares of the unloaded and loaded 3,34 million t of cargo were handled by hubs with volumes down from 2018, such as Delhi (990,000 t,... more
Skycargo celebrates 20 years of Bahrain service
On 25 January 2000, Emirates took off from DXB headed for Bahrain. When the B777-200 landed, it marked a major milestone for the airline – its first flight to the country. Since the first flight, more than 6.7 million passengers have flown with Emirates on the route to Dubai... more
Performance down, but solid yields for American
American Airlines reports Q4/2019 net income up 27.5% to USD 414 million, with total operating revenues up 3.4% to USD 11.3 billion. For 2019, net income rose by 19.4% to USD 1.6 billion, with revenues up 2.8% to USD 45.7 billion. The carrier returned USD 1.3 billion to... more
Boeing completes first B777X flight
The new Boeing 777X took to the skies on 25 January 2020, entering the next phase of its test programme. Based on the B777 and with proven technologies from the B787 Dreamliner, the B777X took off at Paine Field in Everett (PAE) for a three hour, 51 minute flight over Washington... more
Western Sydney Airport signs with Dnata and Toll
Western Sydney Airport CEO Graham Millett (centre) has signed with an additional two freight industry players to collaborate on the design of its freight precinct, adding to the ten freight industry partners already signed up. Dnata head of cargo Terence Yon (left):... more
Leipzig/Halle airport marks yet another record
In 2019 cargo handling at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany's second and Europe’s fifth largest air cargo hub, increased for the fifteenth time in succession. A total of 1,238,000 t were handled, representing yoy growth of 1.4%. Freight volumes have increased more than tenfold... more