Air Cargo News.Sep 17, 2007 Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) Air France Cargo is to increase its flights to Bahrain, it was revealed yesterday. The number of cargo flights will increase from three to four per week, connecting Bahrain with Lisbon, Dhaka, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and Cairo, effective from November 1 this year to March 31 next year. Sep 12, 2007 Antonov, Galaxy An-12 freighter belonging to Congolese carrier Galaxy crashed Friday Sept. 7 at Goma, killing all eight aboard. The airline is among those blacklisted by the EU. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network, the aircraft was en route from Kisangani and was carrying palm oil. It crash-landed on its scheduled stopover at GOM GOM - Good Old MAD. Don Boettner, U Mich. MAD for the IBM 360. Parts of the MTS time-sharing system were written in GOM. , sliding into a petrified pet·ri·fy v. pet·ri·fied, pet·ri·fy·ing, pet·ri·fies v.tr. 1. To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction. 2. lava flow and catching fire. Sep 10, 2007 EVA Air, Boeing EVA Air sold an MD-11 freighter to Wells Fargo Bank for $55 million, booking a gain of TWD TWD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Taiwan Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 50 million ($1.5 million) on the deal, Dow Jones reported. EVA Eva to marry winner of singing contest. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Meistersinger, Westerman, 225–228] See : Prize 1. Eva - A toy ALGOL-like language used in "Formal Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer", F.G. now operates nine MD-11Fs, but will continue to sell the aircraft as it converts nine Boeing 747-400 Combis into freighters, an EVA spokesperson told the news service. Sep 11, 2007 FedEx FedEx has significantly enhanced FedEx Express same-day service offerings with the addition of same-day services for freight shipments and a new intra-city service in select markets. Sep 10, 2007 Flyington Freighters, Pratt & Whitney, Airbus Flyington Freighters selected Pratt & Whitney PW4000-100s to power its fleet of 12 Airbus A330-200Fs. The contract, valued at $715 million, covers installed and spare engines for 12 firm aircraft that will begin delivering in 2009 and an exclusive long-term service agreement. Sep 10, 2007 Hainan Airlines, European Cargo Services European Cargo Services is the exclusive European 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. for Hainan Airlines. ECS See eComStation. will market the carrier's 45 tonnes of freight capacity on its thrice-weekly Boeing 767 passenger service between Beijing and Brussels. ECS expects to generate some 1,200 tonnes of traffic for Hainan in its first year of representation. Sep 10, 2007 Korean Air Cargo Korean Air Cargo is launching twice-weekly Boeing 747-400F service to Munich from Seoul Incheon via Moscow. Sep 14, 2007 Nippon Cargo Airlines Nippon Cargo Airlines Company, Limited (日本貨物航空株式会社 , Telair International, Boeing Telair International was selected by Nippon Cargo Airlines to supply lower and main deck cargo-loading systems for 14 Boeing 747-8 Freighters ordered by 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. . Sep 12, 2007 Northwest Airlines, Boeing Northwest Airlines on Sept 12 retired its final passenger Boeing 747-200 from scheduled service. Last flight was Tokyo Narita-Seattle-Minneapolis/St. Paul. The aircraft joined the fleet in 1979. Northwest will continue to operate 747-200s as charter aircraft; it replaced them with Airbus A330s. By year end it will operate 21 A330-300s and 11 A330-200s. Sep 13, 2007 Sabre Airline, Southwest Airlines Cargo Sabre Airline Solutions Sabre Airline Solutions is a subsidiary of Sabre Holdings. The main product of Sabre Airline Solutions is the SabreSonic system. This provides departure control, reservations, and, inventory management. said Southwest Airlines Cargo selected the CargoMax Revenue Manager system. Sep 11, 2007 United Airlines United Airlines today announced that it will offer new daily passenger and cargo service between Los Angeles and Frankfurt. United will begin service to Frankfurt on December 15, 2007 and service from Frankfurt on December 16, 2007. Sep 13, 2007 UPS US and Japan yesterday reached an expanded air services agreement, according to UPS, which said it won authority under the deal to operate six daily freighter flights between the US and Nagoya. Neither nation issued a statement, but UPS released one saying that the US "Departments of State and Transportation today reached an agreement that will allow UPS and other air carriers to expand air operations to and from Japan." UPS International President Alan Gershenhorn said negotiators from the two countries had achieved a "landmark agreement." UPS, which currently operates daily service to Tokyo and Osaka, said it will be permitted to connect flights from Nagoya to its new Shanghai hub. 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