Emirates Business Rewards, the airline’s innovative loyalty programme tailor-made for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), will offer its customers double reward miles throughout February and March, highlighting the airlines commitment to supporting SMEs in the UAE. For every US$1 spent on travel with Emirates and booked via Business Rewards in Febru...
Japan Airlines (JAL) has applied to the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) to revise from March 1, 2010, its international cargo fuel surcharge for flights departing from Japan only. Since April 01, 2009, JAL started adjusting its fuel surcharge levels on a monthly basis by using the one-month average fuel price of Sin...
Three UAE National Emirates’ employees have graduated with Honours in Aircraft Engineering from Kingston University in the United Kingdom, after completing a one-year top up degree programme sponsored by Emirates. The three graduates, Ali Abutaleb Mohammad Saleh Abbasi, Fouz Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed and Khalid Walid Al Ardha, are currently Aircraf...
After a successful implementation of 2 trial flights on 24th and 31st Jan 2010, UPS followed its original plan to open up its new Intra-Asia hub at Shenzhen Bao’an Airport on 8th Feb 2010 and launched its inaugural freighter service from SZX to SIN on 9th Feb 2010. In the first stage, UPS was planning to fly to Cologne (CGN), Tokyo (NRT), Osaka (KIX),...
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) released its tonnage throughput for the first month of 2010. A total of 212,623 tonnes were handled in the month, representing a significant year-on-year growth of 48.9%. Export volume in January increased 52.3% against last year to 115,297 tonnes while import volume for the month also showed a year-on-year grow...
Loopholes in the EU security rules governing air cargo in passenger aircraft could remain for another two years despite the introduction of revised rules intended to tighten security, reports the UK's Shippers' Voice. An expert source working close to the issue believes many European member states are not ready to provide independent validation programm...
KOREAN Air has expanded codeshare relationship with Garuda Indonesia Airlines on three more flights on the Incheon-Jakarta route. This adds to the existing code sharing on Korean Air's daily flights on the same route, increasing the codeshare frequency to 10 weekly flights. With the added schedule, Korean Air passengers will be able to enjoy a wider ra...
Wrocław public transport company has spent the last couple of months on seeking a partner to provide a loan of PLN 300m for the purchase of trams for the Tram Plus project, Railway Market - CEE Review reports. Initially the trams were supposed to be purchased by the city of Wrocław, but when it found out the Euro 2012 stadium investment will be PLN 200m m...
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