Air Cargo

Coverage of air cargo related news including freight forwarders, airlines, airports and more

Southwest Air seeks to pare costs with new voluntary-leave offer

Bloomberg | January 26, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Vaccine rollout misses TSA screeners, air-traffic controllers

Bloomberg | January 26, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

“It’s incredibly frustrating.”

Virus travel restrictions weighed by US for more countries

Bloomberg | January 26, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

Air Canada drops most in five weeks on virus, travel warnings

Bloomberg | January 25, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Astral Aviation announces its strategic plan for the B767F

AJOT | January 25, 2021 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Following the acquisition of the B767-200F from Air Transport Services Group, Inc. in October 2020, Astral Aviation will deploy the freighter on the Nairobi – Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) route, with effect from 3rd February 2021, thus offering unrivalled capacity for 80 tons per week of flowers and vegetables to the UAE.

AirBridgeCargo Airlines has been named ‘Best E-Commerce Carrier’ during the 7th Payload Asia Awards online ceremony

AJOT | January 25, 2021 | Air Cargo | Project

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group and one of the leading all-cargo carriers with specialist services, has been awarded the prize as ‘Best E-commerce Carrier’ during the 7th Payload Asia Awards online ceremony.

Delta to activate 400 idled pilots in sign of travel optimism

Bloomberg | January 25, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Johnson says working on plan to quarantine arrivals in U.K.

Bloomberg | January 25, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

China’s challenger to Boeing, Airbus to finally begin deliveries

Bloomberg | January 25, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

China is finally reaching the finish line in its long-delayed attempt to build a jet capable of competing with narrowbody planes from Airbus SE and Boeing Co., according to the state-owned company in charge of the program.

Qatar Air adds Africa flights as Saudi ban lift shortens trips

Bloomberg | January 25, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Europe pledges full scrutiny of US jets as Max sign off nears

Bloomberg | January 25, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

KLM to keep flying long haul with deal for testing at airport

Bloomberg | January 24, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Boeing eyes jetliners fueled by waste in race to zero emissions

Bloomberg | January 22, 2021 | Air Cargo | Technology

Frankfurt Cargo Services handles first Covid vaccine shipments in support of WFS’ ‘Project Coldstream’

AJOT | January 22, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

Frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS), a subsidiary of Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has handled its first shipments of Covid-19 vaccines from German biotechnology company BioNTech as the airport gears up to play a prominent role in the global recovery from the coronavirus. Doses of the vaccine were handled at FCS’ facility at Frankfurt’s CargoCity Süd before being loaded into the cargo hold of a Royal Jordanian Airlines’ Airbus A319 bound for Amman.

2020 in perspective: how the pandemic changed the air cargo business

AJOT | January 22, 2021 | Air Cargo | Freighters

In December, volatility - both in volumes and in rates - has been the order of the day in many markets in 2020. Today, we can present you the figures underlying that statement, by comparing the full year 2020 with 2019, looking at air cargo from a number of different angles. But before doing so, let us take a quick look at the closing month of this very memorable year in our ‘industry’.