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


New covid variants ground recent traffic improvements for airports

AJOT | October 19, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

AN-225 Mriya flies 110 tonnes of Covid tests to Austria
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AJOT | Top Story | October 19, 2021

AN-225 Mriya flies 110 tonnes of Covid tests to Austria

The AN-225, with its unique 250-tonne payload, is in demand to meet customers’ urgent global logistics requirements
Jettainer and Swiss International Air Lines extend their cooperation

AJOT | October 19, 2021 | Air Cargo | Freighters

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Heathrow Cleared to Hike Fees Up to 56%, Angering Airlines

Bloomberg | October 19, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

Britain will allow London Heathrow airport to lift its charges by as much as 56%, stoking a clash with airlines who warned that higher fares will stifle a recovery at Europe’s busiest airport.

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AirBridgeCargo’ VP-BIG operates charter flight with a BIG batch of oral vaccines

AJOT | October 19, 2021 | Air Cargo | Freighters

AirBridgeCargo Airlines, the all-cargo carrier within Volga-Dnepr Group, has operated a full charter flight from Chicago (USA) via Moscow (Russia) to Beijing (China) overcoming the distance of over 13, 800 km and delivering 425,000 doses of oral vaccines.

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Lufthansa Cargo and WiseTech Global to launch eBooking connection

AJOT | October 19, 2021 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Broad based collaboration program enables easy and quick booking process for airfreight customers

Heathrow will be allowed to lift fees after clash with airlines

Bloomberg | October 19, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

Chinese tycoon takes on Cathay with new airline in Hong Kong

Bloomberg | October 19, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

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WFS ‘Cargo Kiosk’ solution reduces truck processing times and helps customers optimise valuable driver resources

AJOT | October 18, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

London Heathrow is set to become the latest Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) cargo station to introduce automated ‘CargoKiosk’ technology to simplify and digitalise the processing of truck and drivers making cargo deliveries and collections, helping customers optimise their valuable driver resources.

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SmartLynx Technik –  a new line maintenance centre to be opened by SmartLynx Airlines

AJOT | October 18, 2021 | Air Cargo | Charters

SmartLynx Airlines, EU-based specialists in full-service ACMI aircraft leasing solutions and charter operations, announces the initiation and implementation of a new Part-145 Line Maintenance Organization SmartLynx Technik, to bring greater control back in-house.

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WorldACD: Trends for the past 5 weeks (wk 40)

AJOT | October 18, 2021 | Air Cargo | Freighters | By The Numbers

WorldACD's latest views on air cargo market developments, covering each of the last 5 weeks up till Sunday 10 October.

JD Logistics Goes Plane Shopping to Tap Air Freight Demand

Bloomberg | October 18, 2021 | Air Cargo | Freighters

AirAsia X proposes paying creditors 0.5% of $8 billion owed

Bloomberg | October 18, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

JD Logistics goes shopping for planes to tap air freight demand

Bloomberg | October 17, 2021 | Air Cargo | Air Forwarders | Logistics

Southwest Air asks court to reject effort to block Covid shots

Bloomberg | October 16, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

China orders five airlines to halt some flights on virus cases

Bloomberg | October 15, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Ex-Boeing pilot charged with fraud in 737 Max probe

Bloomberg | October 15, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

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New EUROCONTROL 2021-2027 forecast expects traffic recovery to 2019 levels by the end of 2023

AJOT | October 15, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airports

Recovery to the 2019 number of flights in Europe could occur as early as 2023, according to a new forecast issued by EUROCONTROL. This forecast contains three scenarios and both the ‘baseline’ and ‘high’ scenarios show recovery to 2019 levels during the course of 2023, while this is delayed in the ‘low’ scenario until 2027. It updates and extends the forecast made in May 2021, before the summer season.

Italy’s new airline gives itself a year to find an investor

Bloomberg | October 15, 2021 | Air Cargo | Airlines

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