Etihad’s new Crystal Cargo Airbus A330-200F freighter aircraft deployed to fly aid to Pakistan flood victims
The inaugural flight for Etihad Crystal Cargo’s new Airbus A330-200 freighter aircraft took place last Saturday, 28 August, and was a special charter carrying medical and humanitarian supplies to Pakistan. The new Airbus A330-200F was deployed to Karachi and utilised the aircraft’s capacity to 59 tonnes. The aid was required following heavy monsoon rains which hit Pakistan [...]
Etihad delivery of first Airbus A330-200 Freighter marks record month
Etihad Airways has taken delivery of its first Airbus A330-200 freighter aircraft. Etihad is the launch customer for the freighter which made its maiden flight from Airbus in Toulouse to the airline’s base in Abu Dhabi on Monday evening, 9th August. The freighter will boost the airline’s expanding fleet of cargo aircraft and arrives at [...]
Air Transport Services Group purchase three Boeing 767-300 aircraft
Air Transport Services Group has said this week that its Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) subsidiary has committed to purchase three Boeing 767-300 series extended-range aircraft from Qantas Airways and anticipates to take delivery in the third quarter.
Korean Air – Number one Global Cargo Airline six years in a row
New IATA statistics have shown that Korean Air maintained and improved top traffic records in 2009 despite the global challenges that have been affecting the industry. According to World Air Transport Statistics compiled by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Korean Air topped the global rankings for commercial airline cargo operations for the sixth consecutive [...]
Boeing 747-8 emerges from paint hangar in new Cargolux livery
The first Boeing 747-8 Freighter painted in customer livery emerged today from the Boeing paint hangar in Everett, Washington. The airplane sports an updated livery for launch customer Cargolux. The Luxembourg-based cargo operator has a total of 13 Boeing 747-8 Freighters on order. Boeing delivered the last Cargolux 747-400 Freighter with a unique transition paint [...]
Qatar Airways new B777 Freighter goes into operation
Qatar Airways has begun cargo operations using its brand new Boeing B777 Freighter, with the plane’s first flight departing from Doha for Amsterdam early Tuesday morning. The new cargo freighter was delivered to the airline’s hub at Doha International Airport over the weekend following a non-stop flight from Boeing Everett factory in Seattle, Washington. The [...]
Abu Dhabi Airport is ACN’s “World’s Best Cargo Airport 2010″
Abu Dhabi International Airport received the international accolade of “Best Cargo Airport 2010” at an award ceremony in London last night, as part of the 27th annual ‘Air Cargo News Awards’. Using the latest independent data from Airport Council International (ACI) for 2009, Abu Dhabi International Airport was judged to be the world’s “Best Cargo [...]
Lufthansa first‑quarter loss but Lufthansa Cargo benefits from increase in demand
The Lufthansa Group has posted an operating loss of 330 million euros for the first three months of 2010; the figure is 286 million euros less than during the same period the previous year. After a crisis-related decline in demand in 2009, combined with a major slump in prices, the Passenger Airline Group and Logistics [...]
Etihad Crystal Cargo launch service to Erbil
Etihad Crystal Cargo, a division of Etihad Airways, has launched a weekly service from its hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The service operates an A300-600F freighter to Erbil with a payload of 42 tonnes on the route. Flights commenced last month on March 26 and will [...]
Iberia freight cargo up 40% this month even with volcanic ash
Iberia has carried 40 per cent more freight this month – 41.5 per cent more outgoing and 51.60 per cent more incoming – compared to April, 2009. This increase is partly due to the closing of airports in Northern and Central Europe for the past six days because of the volcanic ash cloud, which caused [...]
