Atran Airlines grows fleet to six full freighters 
Atran Airlines, the Russian air express carrier within Volga-Dnepr Group, has enlarged its fleet to six freighters with the deployment of the second Boeing 737-800BCF. Following on from the success of effective operations of its first B737-800BCF which was delivered earlier... more
Salzburg airport makes a stand
Last week’s meeting of the federal association of logistics Austria (Bundesvereinigung Logistik Österreich, BVL) at Salzburg airport focused on the future challenges of the airfreight industry. Managing director Bettina Ganghofer used the opportunity to present the handling of... more
Zurich, Cologne and Leipzig: Supplying Europe 
Swiss aviation journalists recently flew across much of Central Europe, taking a close look at three airports in two days in the process. The trip focused on the strategies pursued by each of the gateways, in or close to Europe’s huge but vaguely-defined ‘blue banana’. more
FIS calls air cargo a "positive momentum" for Europe
According to the UK analyst Freight Investor Services, both spot and forward air cargo markets are showing some significant movement on the entry into Q4/2019. China to Europe continues its run by gaining USD 0.10 over last week. This is bolstered by the continuing climb of... more
Lemon Queens and Kings freshen up (air) freight business
Royalty has returned to Paris. The agency Lemon Queen is the creation of Audrey Serdjebi, a well-known name in the air freight business. With eight years of industry experience under her belt, working to boost the reputation of the ECS Group and of its clients, the GSSA's former... more
Caribbean Airlines: Cargo service to Curaçao
Through a partnership with Maduro Air Freight Services, a GSSA anchored in the region since 1837 with stations in Willemstad, Kralendijk (Bonaire) and Oranjestad (Aruba), Trinidad-and-Tobago-based Caribbean Airlines has launched twice weekly cargo operations between Trinidad and... more
Milestone for Osprey, millions for air transport providers
Less than two years after surpassing 400,000 flight hours, the V-22 fleet of tiltrotor aircraft built by Bell Textron and Boeing, has topped the 500,000 flight hour milestone. Most recently deployed to assist relief efforts in the Bahamas, more than 375 Ospreys logged the hours,... more
Mistral Air becomes Poste Air Cargo
One year after transiting into a dedicated mail and freight haulier, the Italian carrier Mistral Air has been rebranded as Poste Air Cargo. The airline is a division of Poste Italiane and operates a fleet of five ATR72-500, two ATR72-200F and one B737F aircraft on scheduled... more
Finnair seeks even more freight in Asia
Last month, Finnair's available scheduled cargo tonne kilometres (162.4 million) increased by 13.7% year-on-year. Revenue scheduled cargo tonne kilometres (99.8 million) increased by 11.4%. During the first nine months of the year, Finnair carried 25,059 t inside Europe (+66.8%... more
American Airlines Cargo transports a true cosmopolitan
American Airlines Cargo welcomed a very special shipment from Latin America when Sandra – an orangutan with human rights – was carefully moved from Buenos Aires, Argentina to the USA, where she will eventually find a new home at the sanctuary for great apes in Florida.... more