Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights due to virus controls
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air crews,… Read More »
India’s SpiceXpress eyes electric fleet by 2024
SpiceXpress – the cargo division currently being spun off by parent SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) – has confirmed it is… Read More »
FedEx Express revises C408 induction plans
FedEx Express (FX, Memphis Int’l) has revealed in its quarterly earnings that it will induct its new Cessna 408 SkyCouriers… Read More »
UPS orders nineteen 767 freighters
The United Parcel Service (UPS) says it has ordered nineteen B767-300Fs from Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) for placement with its… Read More »
France’s CMA CGM firms A350 freighter order
CMA CGM Air Cargo (Paris CDG) has firmed up a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for… Read More »
US’s Sherpa Air takes first Dash 8-300
Sherpa Air (Georgetown, SC), the newly established aviation wing of military logistics contractor Sherpa6, took delivery of its first DHC-8-300… Read More »
New forecast predicts 45,000 fuel efficient jets to be delivered by 2040 worth US$2.9 trillion
The new 2021 Cirium Fleet Forecast reveals that US$2.9 trillion is expected to be spent on approximately 45,000 new and… Read More »
KLM, Transavia order A320neo jets, Air France eyes A350Fs
Air France-KLM says it has selected Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for its narrowbody fleet renewal and expansion drive as well… Read More »
Air Belgium to add 747-8 freighters in early 2022
Air Belgium (KF, Brussels Charleroi) says it is planning to add an unspecified number of B747-8Fs in early 2022 as… Read More »
Passenger travel is back, but stock market investors haven’t stuck with airlines
The recent history of investing in airlines has been volatile, with events from 9/11 to the financial crisis to the… Read More »
Air Canada takes delivery of first 767 dedicated freighter
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) has taken redelivery of C-FPCA (msn 24306), its first B767-300(ER) to have been converted into… Read More »
Georgia’s CAMEX Airlines eyes 2H22 cargo market debut
CAMEX Airlines (Tbilisi) has applied to the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency (GCAA) for an air operator’s certificate (AOC) after securing… Read More »
Qantas to convert two A330-200s into freighters
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) has announced it will convert two of its A330-200s into A330-200(P2F)s to increase its international… Read More »
China Eastern Airlines co-founds new logistics giant
China Eastern Airlines (MU, Shanghai Hongqiao) has taken part in formally establishing a new state-owned logistics giant to bolster domestic… Read More »
VietJetAir to launch European flights in early 3Q22
VietJetAir (VJ, Hanoi) has announced it will launch services to Russia from three Vietnamese airports on July 3, 2022, marking… Read More »
Air Canada Cargo received its first Boeing 767-300ER converted aircraft
Air Canada has welcomed the first of its converted Boeing 767-300ER aircraft for Air Canada Cargo into its fleet, marking… Read More »
Malaysia’s Kargo Xpress takes first 737-800(BCF) freighter
Kargo Xpress (KXP, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) took delivery of its first B737-800(BCF) – N248GE (msn 34267) – on November 19,… Read More »
Zambia Airways adds first aircraft, a damp-leased Dash 8-400
Zambia Airways (ZN, Lusaka) has taken delivery of its first aircraft, a Dash 8-400 on damp lease from equity partner… Read More »
Nigeria’s K-Impex eyes cargo, pax ops in 2022
Another Nigerian startup – K-impex Airline (Abuja) – is planning to enter the local scheduled passenger, charter, and cargo market… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet mulls Goshawk, De Havilland settlements
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) is reportedly working towards settling a lawsuit filed by Irish lessor Goshawk and its trustee Wilmington… Read More »
Swissport partners with Speedcargo in digital push to increase utilization of cargo space
Swissport will launch proof of concept trials of the Cargo Eye sizing system and the AI-powered Cargo Mind software solution… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet to induct 50 MAX by YE23, eyes freighters
As SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) resumed operations with its B737-8s on November 23, its chairman said the carrier would deploy… Read More »