Air Cargo News.Boeing, Polar Polar spokesperson Alan Caminiti confirmed that the airline will retire four 747-200Fs, a dash 100F and a dash 300F by July 1, reducing its fleet of 11 freighters to five dash 400Fs that be joined by a sixth from Atlas Air's fleet. The smaller fleet and retirement of older aircraft requiring three-person crews means that Polar will furlough a to-be-determined number of pilots later this year, Caminiti said. The furloughs come as AAWH moves toward consolidating the pilot workforces of Atlas and Polar into one unit, a plan long favored by the company that was delayed by last fall's brief strike by Polar pilots and its aftermath. AAWH, the largest operator of 747Fs in the world with 41, could replace the retired planes with conversions; it has reserved up to 10 747 passenger-to-freighter conversion slots with Israel Aircraft Industries in 2007-11 but has not determined whether it will use them. Caminiti also revealed that AAWH, which now exclusively operates 747Fs, is "open to a lot of aircraft types" and may add other types in coming years. May 4, 2006 Emerald Airways Emerald Airways, a small British freight carrier which also flies scheduled service from Liverpool in conjunction with Euromanx, has had its Air Operators Certificate (AOC AOC, n an acronym for the Aromatherapy Organizations Council. ) suspended by the Civil Aviation Authority Civil Aviation Authority civil (Brit) n → Behörde f für Zivilluftfahrt (CAA Caa See CCC. ). Whilst nobody is giving details it is thought that the CAA were concerned with the training aspects of the company following several incidents. The Emerald contracts include the Royal Mail, their flights disrupted, but the service between Liverpool and Isle of Man Noun 1. Isle of Man - one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea Man British Isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic has not been affected with Euromanx solely operating the route. Our picture shows an elderly Emerald Airways AVRO 748 betting airborne. http://www.emerald-airways.co.uk May 7, 2006 Emirates SkyCargo Emirates SkyCargo announced the appointment of Scand Air Cargo as its cargo sales agent in Sao Paulo. May 2, 2006 Etihad Crystal Cargo Etihad Crystal Cargo, the carrier's cargo division, appointed GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. Cargo Ltd. to provide cargo sales and customer service in Bangladesh for four weekly Abu Dhabi-Dhaka flights scheduled to begin May 4 aboard A330-200s. May 2, 2006 FedEx Express FedEx Express unveiled an expansion plan for its Indianapolis hub yesterday that includes construction of up to 14 widebody gates. The project will boost its processing capacity at the airport by 30% to 99,000 packages per hr. and is expected to be completed by late 2008. As part of its agreement with IND, FedEx extended its lease by 12 years to 2028. Indianapolis Airport Authority Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA) is a governmental board responsible for owning, developing and operating several public airport and one public heliport facilities located in and around Indianapolis, a city in Marion County, Indiana, United States. will fund, construct and lease back to FedEx five widebody gates by December, with options for nine more. Construction on the initial five will begin this month. FedEx currently controls 61 gates at IND, including 38 widebody gates. May 5, 2006 Lufthansa Cargo Lufthansa Cargo raised its fuel surcharge to [euro]0.60 ($0.76) per kg. from [euro]0.55 effective May 15. May 3, 2006 Mountain Air Cargo Mountain Air Cargo is an American cargo airline based in Denver, North Carolina, USA. It is a major contract carrier for FedEx, operating in the eastern USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and the Caribbean. Its main maintenance facility is at Kinston Regional Jetport. Mountain Air Cargo transported 9.4 million lb. of freight in April. May 2, 2006 Nippon Cargo Airlines Nippon Cargo Airlines Company, Limited (日本貨物航空株式会社 , IBS IBS Irritable bowel syndrome, see there Software maker IBS said that Nippon Cargo Airlines is the launch customer for iCargo, its "next-generation air cargo and logistics management system that has the functionality to fully support supply chain management from shipper to consignee in all aspects of cargo logistics." May 3, 2006 SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Cargo SAS Cargo signed an outsource agreement with Total Airport Services for the handling of its cargo and mail at Newark. TAS said it foresees using SAS's 62,000-sq.-ft. facility at EWR to handle as much as 56,000 tons of SAS cargo annually, up from the 26,000 tons currently handled by the facility. May 1, 2006 TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. TNT posts strong earnings; Express operating profit up 30.5%. TNT reported strong first-quarter results this week as overall net income rose 6.2% over the year-ago quarter to [euro]205 million ($258.9 million). May 5, 2006 United Airlines United to consolidate cargo, airport operation divisions. United Airlines will consolidate its cargo division and airport operations into one organization. Scott Dolan, the company's vice president of cargo, will lead the new entity. May 4, 2006 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion