Brussels freight stays steady Brussels International airport carried a little over 475,000 tonnes of cargo in 2011, roughly the same as its throughput over the course of the previous year. Click to read more... Lufthansa Cargo adds Detroit Lufthansa Cargo has launched its first services to Detroit, the home of the US?car industry. Click to read more... JAL to make route and fleet changes Japan Airlines (JAL) has made a number of route and frequency changes, plus amendments to its fleet composition, for the first half of its 2012-13 financial year – the six months beginning 1 April 2012. Click to read more... Air Partner opens up in Italy  Air Partner has opened a cargo office in Milan as part of a wider strategy to develop its global charter offering.Click to read more... Geneva reports impressive volumes Geneva International airport says it handled 8.3 percent more freight in 2011 than it did during the previous year. Click to read more... Los Angeles International airport Los Angeles International airport handled 159,331 tons of freight and mail in November, down by nearly 1 percent on the same month of 2010. The January - November throughput of 1.69 million tons was a fall of almost 4 percent year-on-year. British Airways British Airways is to restart services between London Heathrow airport and Tripoli. Having suspended flights to the Libyan capital just over a year ago, BA will operate three times a week A320 services from 1 May. Another good year at Singapore Changi  Singapore's Changi airport handled 167,000 tonnes of cargo in December, a year-on-year increase of 6.9 percent and its busiest month for freight in three years.Click to read more... AMI extends click2ship product  AMI Express – the express arm of trade-only air freight and express wholesaler Air Menzies International – has extended its click2ship online express product to include the UK's only wholesale express door-to-door road service, serving any point in 27 countries throughout Europe.Click to read more... Portland International airport Oregon's Portland International airport saw a significant increase in cargo traffic last year with 213,964 tons of freight and mail processed in 2011. The airport said that the 2.3 percent year-on-year improvement seen in its cargo figures was influenced by the launch in 2011 of a B747 freighter service by Asiana Cargo that connects Portland non-stop to Korea. Cathay Pacific Airways Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways is to acquire six new A350-900 XWB (Extra Wide-Bodied) aircraft from Airbus. Swissport makes gains but promises more  Zurich, Switzerland-headquartered handler Swissport achieved a total operating revenue of 1.7 billion Swiss francs (US$1.8 billion) last year. Once that figure is corrected for currency fluctuations, Swissport said it reflected an improvement of 7 percent over 2010's performance.Click to read more... Almaty turns to Lufthansa Consulting for advice Kazakhstan's Almaty International airport has asked Lufthansa Consulting to create a master plan as a basis of its strategic development. Click to read more... Blue Panorama Airlines Italian carrier Blue Panorama Airlines is to re-establish non-stop air services between Europe and the Seychelles with the inauguration of a weekly service from Rome on 14 February. The carrier said it step up flights to twice-weekly from July. Woodland Group Woodland Group won the Air Freight Award at the Annual Lunch and Award Ceremony of the British International Freight Association (BIFA) held in London earlier this month. Runners-up in the category were NNR Global Logistics UK and Uniserve Group. ASR Holdings ASR Holdings – which sells wholesale air cargo capacity through more than 10 different brand names across the Far East – has been listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong stock exchange. German airports: reasons for optimism  A number of German air gateways have reported favourably on their freight throughput during 2011.Click to read more... B747-8Fs – three in a row for IAG Cargo  IAG Cargo, through one of its two component freight carriers – British Airways World Cargo – has taken delivery of its final two B747-8 freighters.Click to read more... ACI reports air freight decline and confidence in economies still on the wane According to Airports Council International (ACI), global air freight demand continued its downward slide in November 2011, falling by 1.6 percent year-on-year. Click to read more... SAS Cargo opts for Efis in France Scandinavian air freight carrier SAS Cargo has named Efis Air, part of the ECS Group, as its general sales agent in France. Click to read more...
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