Air Cargo News.Oct 9, 2006 American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the American Airlines Cargo said it lowered its fuel surcharge from $0.60/kg. to $0.50/kg. for most US-originating international shipments and from $0.24/lb. to $0.20/lb. for US domestic shipments effective Oct. 16. Oct 3, 2006 Boeing, Nippon Cargo Boeing delivered a third 747-400ERF n. 1. A garden plot, usually about half an acre. to Nippon Cargo Airlines Nippon Cargo Airlines Company, Limited (日本貨物航空株式会社 yesterday. NCA (Network Computing Architecture) An architecture from Oracle for developing applications within a networked computing environment. It provides a three-tier distributed environment based on CORBA that uses program components known as "cartridges. has a further seven on order. Oct 4, 2006 CSA (1) (Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, Ontario, www.csa.ca) A standards-defining organization founded in 1919. It is involved in many industries, including electronics, communications and information technology. Czech Airlines CSA Czech Airlines (in Czech: České aerolinie (abbreviation: ČSA)) is the Czech national airline company, and former national carrier of Czechoslovakia based at Ruzyně International Airport, Prague. CSA to sell catering operation, cargo terminal. CSA Czech Airlines said yesterday it will initiate the sale of its catering operation and cargo terminal at Prague Airport. The carrier noted that it will hold onto duty free shops and onboard sales, though the existing CSA catering operation will be sold as a unit. It also said it will retain cargo transport aboard its aircraft even though it is selling its Prague cargo terminal. The cargo terminal divestment will be divided into two parts. CSA contacted prospective investors yesterday by sending out basic information regarding the sale of the catering operation. Prospective investors in the cargo terminal will be contacted later this month. The company said it would like to receive indicative quotes from investors this year and select the winners of the tenders for both units in February. Oct 3, 2006 Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines plans to increase its cargo activities to meet the demands of the nation's fast-growing export market. It will construct a new state-of-the-art cargo terminal in Addis Abeba with cold storage facilities and a total annual capacity of 250,000 tonnes and lease an MD-11 freighter for a daily Addis-Brussels flight with a capacity of 85 tonnes. Oct 3, 2006 MK Airlines MK Airlines is a British specialist cargo carrier that has been granted an AOC AOC, n an acronym for the Aromatherapy Organizations Council. (Air Operator's Certificate) by the UK CAA Caa See CCC. . MK can't be described as new, created in Ghana in 1990 but it is now a fully authorized Harkfield, East Sussex, based carrier with a fleet of seven Boeing 747-200F aircraft. 747 number eight will be added by the end of the year and whilst major investment would be required both the Dash 400 and 8F versions have not been ruled out. http://www.mkairlines.com Oct 2, 2006 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Oct 2, 2006 |
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