Commercial plane maker Airbus took 644 aircraft orders worth a total of US$84 billion at list price last year, beating US rival Boeing Co thanks to unexpectedly robust demand from airlines in Asia, the Middle East and emerging market countries, reported Dow Jones Newswires. For the eighth straight year, Airbus remained the world's leading manufacturer ...
Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson is considering selling down his stake in the airline, The Daily Telegraph reported. The British entrepreneur, who founded the carrier 27 years ago, is keen to ensure it survives increased competition from larger rivals that are part of global alliances. "Obviously, Virgin Atlantic has been a bit of a baby to m...
UAE FLAG carrier Etihad Airways has extended its wet lease contracts for two A300-600RF aircraft begun June 2009 with Maximus Air Cargo to run to August 2012. Abu Dhabi's Maximus Air Cargo started operating seven cargo flights a week of both scheduled and chartered services between the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, East Africa, and China on beh...
Lufthansa Cargo's sales rose 19.9 per cent to a record 8.9 billion revenue cargo tonne-kilometres in 2010 and were accompanied by a pronounced improvement in capacity utilisation. The cargo load factor rose by 7.3 percentage points to 70.9 per cent, chairman and CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt said. The volume of cargo and mail transported climbed 18.2 per...
Latvian airline airBaltic carried overall 3,206,735 passengers in 2010, representing 16% increase comparing with 2009. Bertolt Flick, President and Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic: “airBaltic achieved good results in December, however, we were affected by unusually severe weather conditions leading to changes in the flight schedule.” ...
Scandinavian Airlines has been nominated in two categories of Flightstats' annual On-Time Performance Service Awards: Arrival Performance among Major International Airlines and Arrival Performance among Major European Airlines. In the International Airlines category, SAS is the only airline outside the AsiaPacific region to be included. "These nominati...
oneworld®, the leading quality global airline alliance, warmly welcomes moves announced today by two of its founding members, American Airlines and Qantas, to form closer ties. The Australian carrier is to launch direct flights between its own Sydney base and the main Dallas-Fort Worth hub of its US partner - and the two airlines are to seek regulat...
MASkargo will manage and market cargo space on Firefly’s inaugural flights out of Kuala Lumpur to Kuching and Kota Kinabalu that begin tomorrow. Firefly will offer twice daily flights to both destinations, increasing to three times daily to Kota Kinabalu and four times daily to Kuching from January 24. The new Boeing 737-800 fleet will be able...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi