Dubai International airport has continued to hang on to both cargo and passenger growth despite the continuing global downturn in air cargo and passenger movements with the airport holding on to its position among the world’s top five hubs for international cargo volumes. Dubai Airports Cargo handled a total of 163,427 tonnes of air freight in August 2009 as compared to 158,714 tonnes in August 2008, up 2.9per cent. The year to date cargo movement reached 1.199 million tonnes, up … [Read more...] about Dubai International stays on growth track
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Vnukovo International Airport has begun providing cargo handling for carriers with services to the airport following the opening of a new mail and cargo terminal. The inaugural shipment arrived on 18 September 2009 delivered by a scheduled flight from Yakutsk on a Boeing 757-200 by Yakutia Airlines. The terminal project was implemented as a part of the large-scale programme to develop the airport complex of Vnukovo by the Moscow government. The mail and cargo terminal has an area of 56,800 … [Read more...] about Airports & Ground Handling
Airports & Ground Handling
Vnukovo International Airport has begun providing cargo handling for carriers with services to the airport following the opening of a new mail and cargo terminal. The inaugural shipment arrived on 18 September 2009 delivered by a scheduled flight from Yakutsk on a Boeing 757-200 by Yakutia Airlines. The terminal project was implemented as a part of the large-scale programme to develop the airport complex of Vnukovo by the Moscow government. The mail and cargo terminal has an area of 56,800 … [Read more...] about Airports & Ground Handling
Dubai International stays on growth track
Dubai International airport has continued to hang on to both cargo and passenger growth despite the continuing global downturn in air cargo and passenger movements with the airport holding on to its position among the world's top five hubs for international cargo volumes. Dubai Airports Cargo handled a total of 163,427 tonnes of air freight in August 2009 as compared to 158,714 tonnes in August 2008, up 2.9 per cent. … [Read more...] about Dubai International stays on growth track
Polet makes first flight from Domodedovo
Polet Airlines has begun a new service between Moscow Domodedovo International Airport and Yakutsk utilising an IL-96-400T freighter for both charter and scheduled air cargo service. Polet is seeking approval to operate the IL-96-400T into the airports of: Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, Anadyr, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Abakan, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Samara and Bratsk. … [Read more...] about Polet makes first flight from Domodedovo
LAX sees slimmest cargo decline of the year
In a further indication of an Asian-led recovery of the air cargo sector, Los Angeles International Airport reported its busiest month for freight in nearly a year in August and the fourth straight month-to-month improvement in cargo volumes. North America's largest gateway for the trans-Pacific air cargo trade, reported a 5.1 per cent fall in August cargo volumes compared to the same month a year ago, but the decline marked the slimmest Los Angeles has recorded since April 2008 and the seventh … [Read more...] about LAX sees slimmest cargo decline of the year