THE mainland's biggest private air carrier, Hainan Airlines, plans to launch a direct service from Beijing to Cairo on November 5, Xinhua reported. The new service will use Airbus 330, leaving Beijing at 0030 hrs, reaching Cairo at 0610 hrs every Wednesday and Friday, returning at 0810 hrs from Cairo and reaching Beijing at 2355 hrs on the same day. (A...
TAIWAN flag carrier, China Airlines, has pleaded guilty and will pay a US$40 million fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices, announced US Department of Justice prosecutors. They said Taiwanese flag carrier China Airlines joined an ongoing conspiracy among cargo airlines that began as early as January 1, 2000. Under the plea agreement, China Air...
NETHERLANDS based CEVA Logistics has gained a three-year contract to provide a warehousing and transport solution to Wales and West Utilities (WWU), a regulated gas distribution business with 35,000 kilometres of pipeline in Wales and south west England. Following a competitive tender, CEVA is now responsible for managing a central distribution centre i...
A TOTAL of 108 cross-strait direct shipping destinations for air and sea transport are now in service between the mainland and Taiwan, said Sun Yafu, vice-chairman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the China State Council. There are 37 airports and 71 sea ports authorised to handle cross-strait direct shipping, providing 370 scheduled passenger flights ev...
The owner of London's Gatwick Airport is in talks to sell a minority stake in the airport to an unnamed investor, the Sunday Telegraph reported, citing unnamed sources. Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a consortium involving Credit Suisse and General Electric, is looking to sell a stake of around 12 percent, with the likely buyer a sovereign wealt...
Sir Nigel Rudd, chairman of BAA, has admitted for the first time that Heathrow is now a "second tier" world airport as a result of the Government's decision not to grant a third runway to the UK's busiest airport. The airport chief said that the UK risked becoming "less competitive" as a result of the decision, one of the first made by the coalition G...
France's government is preparing to sell a minority stake in four regional airports and has opened a bidding process to choose a bank to oversee the sale, business daily Les Echos reported. The airports to be put up for sale are Lyon, Nice, Toulouse and Bordeaux. The government has pledged to remain a majority owner of the airports until 2013 but p...
CARSTEN SPOHR has been named the new CEO of Lufthansa German Airlines, succeeding Christoph Franz and Karl Ulrich Garnadt has been appointed chairman and CEO of Lufthansa Cargo. Deutsche Lufthansa AG deputy chairman Christoph Franz has been named the successor to Wolfgang Mayrhuber as chairman and CEO of the Lufthansa Group. The change at the helm of th...
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