SINGAPORE's Changi Airport handled 126,500 tonnes of air freight in February, representing a year-on-year decline of 12.1 per cent with authorities blaming the late arrival of Chinese New Year which skewed most February statistics. Year-to-date, cargo movements have declined five per cent to...

Air China Cargo opened two new routes from Shanghai to Europe: Shanghai-Zhengzhou-Amsterdam and Shanghai-Chongqing-Frankfurt. This further promotes the development of related industries in middle and west China. The Shanghai-Zhengzhou-Amsterdam route will be Air China Cargo s third to...

This year is expected to be another profitless year for the European airline industry, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Tony Tyler, the Association's director general and ceo, says the industry is "balancing on a knife edge", with even the strongest airlines...

Saudi Airlines Cargo has taken delivery of the first of its two Boeing 747-8 freighters, which will enter service in May. Saudia will add the second aircraft to its fleet by the middle of June. Both will fly on Asia-to-Europe routes. With the two additional planes, Saudia now boasts 15...

This summer Lufthansa Cargo will operate 8 all-freighter service from and to Israel. The MD-11 freighter service from Frankfurt will depart in the evening on Tuesdays at 16:00, Wednesdays at 15:40, Fridays at 21:25 and Saturday 15:55. The return flight will be operated on Tuesdays, Wednesdays...

SWISS will be expanding its range of services to and from Asia during the 2013 summer timetable period. From May 12 onwards the airline will offer a new daily non-stop flight between Zurich and Singapore. The new route will be operated with Airbus A340-300 equipment providing 219 seats in a...

The twice-a-week operation is flown with Cargolux s new 747-8 freighters. The inaugural flight, as well as all future Wednesday flights, will be routed via Hong Kong and Baku, Azerbaijan and return to Luxembourg after going to Dallas/Ft. Worth. The second weekly service operates on Saturdays...

Indonesia s Lion Air has placed a firm order with Airbus for 234 A320 Family aircraft, comprising 109 A320neo, 65 A321neo and 60 A320ceo. The deal sees the carrier become a new customer for Airbus. The order was finalised at a special ceremony at the Elysée Palace in Paris in the presence of...

KOREAN Air has commenced direct service from Sri Lanka and the Maldives to Seoul-Incheon, expanding its network to Indian Ocean nations. The airline's new three times weekly direct service flies from the Maldives to Colombo first, and then onto Seoul-Incheon. The Male-Colombo/Seoul-Incheon...

Qatar's Qatar Airways says cargo and passenger flights both will benefit from an open skies...

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will start charging a higher bunker adjustment factor next month on all...

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has signed an agreement with Paris-Vatry Airport, located to the east of...

Dubai's Emirates airline will start flights to Iraq in July as it looks to benefit from increasing...

DB Schenker has launched a new rail service connecting the Norwegian capital of Oslo to the Arctic...

SWISS s first-ever non-stop scheduled flight to San Francisco departed from Zurich at 13:15 on...

Explosive economic growth in China and massive government investment in its transportation systems...

Data released by the Shipping and Ports Authority (S&PA) at the Ministry of Transport, noted that...

Germany's Lufthansa says it carried 20.5 per cent more cargo in September than a year ago and that...

Turkish Airlines is taking delivery of two new A330-200 freighters and four B777-300ER aircraft by...