DRAGONAIR, a member of Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Group, has offered a public educational aviation certificate programme for Hong Kong people between 18 and 24. Jointly organised by Dragonair and the Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps, this mentorship scheme aims at fostering an interest in aviation in young people, which is the first time to open up to the Hon...
HONG KONG AIRLINES will operate both freight and passenger services from Singapore's Changi Airport from mid-January to become the second carrier to operate passenger services to Changi, and the first to start air cargo services this year. Hong Kong Airlines will operate a daily passenger service on Airbus A332 aircraft (in a two-class configuration) a...
THE Teamsters union has given the US trucking firm YRC Worldwide an extension until mid-March to complete a restructuring plan that includes US$300 million in new investment. The struggling trucking giant reached a tentative agreement with unions on its restructuring in September, reports London's International Freighting Weekly. YRC said negotiations ...
GERMAN logistics giant, DB Schenker, has announced it will launch a new 1,960-kilometre service connecting the Norwegian capital Oslo to the arctic town of Narvik. The train runs from the Alnabru terminal in Oslo to Narvik via Sweden. It also uses the Ofoten Line, so its freight transport is expected to nearly 30 per cent because of this addition. T...
Southwest Airlines recently announced it will begin offering a daily non-stop flight between Denver and Columbus on June 5. This will be the ninth non-stop destination for Port Columbus' largest airline. Other nonstop destinations served by Southwest include Baltimore, Chicago-Midway, Las Vegas, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, ...
Airbus has launched a new subsidiary company, called “Airbus ProSky”, dedicated to the development and support of modern air traffic management (ATM) systems. Airbus ProSky will become the channel through which Airbus will interact and develop ATM programmes such as “Single European Sky ATM Research” (SESAR) in Europe, as well ...
Air Menzies International (AMI) has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Stephen Koller to the new post of Executive VP. Koller retains his post as a main board director of Menzies Aviation, AMI’s parent company, with specific responsibility for AMI and Information Technology. His aviation career began wit...
SITA today announced the successful initiation of a series of operational trials at Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) to demonstrate the benefits of its planned AIRCOM IP GateLink service for new generation aircraft such as the Airbus A380, Boeing 787 and newer variants of the Boeing 777. Gatelink is the airline industr...
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