Bright future beckons for Scottish airport
Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK) welcomed a new twice-weekly B747F service from the British Cargologicair, connecting Scotland with Houston and Frankfurt. Each service offers 110 tonnes of freight capacity, giving a welcome boost to the regional oil and gas, aerospace and other... more
Ethiopian Airlines arrives in Istanbul
Ethiopian Airlines has finalised all preparations to launch a direct thrice-weekly flight to Istanbul (Turkey) as of today, 1 April 2019. Istanbul is Europe’s largest city and Turkey’s historic, industrial and financial capital, and the relocation operation from Ataturk Airport... more
Dnata expands into Belgium
Dnata, one of the world’s largest air services providers, is increasing its global footprint again. The company has launched operations in Belgium by opening a new cargo centre at Brussels Airport. The expansion into the Belgian capital represents an investment of EUR 8 million... more
Emirates to add cargo capacity to Cairo
Launched in April 1986, Emirates' current thrice-daily service between Dubai and Cairo will be augmented by four additional flights when the timetable changes on 28 October 2019. The four new flights, which will be operated by a B777-300ER like the current services, will... more
Aero Africa settles in Shanghai
Operating at over 84 airports in all African countries, Aero Africa, a new air cargo management group dedicated to providing African logistic solutions and neutral value-added services to the global logistics community, has opened an office in Shanghai (China) in order to... more
“I’ve really got the best job!”
Peter Gerber has been a Lufthansa employee since 1992. In 2014, after many years working in the passenger segment, he took charge of the airline’s freight business. ITJ editor Andreas Haug got the impression at Air Cargo Africa in February that he has not regretted the move. The... more
Major milestone in US unmanned aviation
After completing more than 3,000 flights for healthcare systems in Switzerland, the Californian drone technology provider Matternet is now partnering with UPS in the first Federal Aviation Administration sanctioned use of a drone for routine revenue flights involving the... more
Spanish airline becomes more cargo-friendly
CDB Aviation, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing, has delivered the first of two A330-200 aircraft to Spain’s third-leading, long-haul airline Wamos Air. The second aircraft is slated for delivery in June 2019. In another move to... more
SAS Cargo going digital with Unilode
Ahead of the Nordic Air Cargo Symposium which is taking place today and tomorrow in Oslo, the Scandinavian carrier SAS Cargo and the ULD services provider Unilode Aviation Solutions will further deepen their collaboration with Unilode digitising SAS Cargo's container fleet as... more
Maskargo to implement tracking solution
Maskargo, the freight division of Malaysia Airlines, has signed a cooperation with several partners for a tracking solution for its containers and pallets. Maskargo, together with TW Control (TWC) and Core Transport Technologies, will incorporate the "Core... more