Airports

Australia’s air cargo gateway nears capacity

by Payload Asia

Sydney Airport (also known as Kingsford Smith International Airport) is both the major passenger airport serving Sydney, the main hub for Qantas and Australia’s keycargo gateway. The airport – managed by Sydney Airport Corporation Limited (SACL) – also has the honour of being one of the oldest continually operated airports in the world and the busiest airport in Australia, handling 31.9 million passengers and 290,346 aircraft movements in 2007. It was the 28th busiest … [Read more...] about Australia’s air cargo gateway nears capacity

Steady as she goes: RJ Cargo enjoying solid volumes

by Payload Asia

“RJ has obviously been affected by the spikes in the fuel surcharges, but actually yearto- date we are about a third above previous year’s production and yields have been decently solid,” Ingo RoesslerVP Cargo told Payload Asia. Helping sustain the volumes was a focus on marketing RJ’s freighters for charter missions, where the business has doubled over last year, he said. RJ Cargo is the air freight network leader in the Middle East’s Levant region. From its … [Read more...] about Steady as she goes: RJ Cargo enjoying solid volumes

Spanair

by Payload Asia

A Spanish court appears to be takingsteps to launch an official criminalinvestigation into the August 20 crashof a Spanair MD-82 at Madrid-BarajasAirport that killed 154 people. Reportshave suggested that a maintenance chiefand two technicians are being questionedon suspicion of manslaughter on 154counts. … [Read more...] about Spanair

Bold cargo vision for tiny PG Airport

by Payload Asia

A full eight hundred kilometres north of the West Coast metropolis of Vancouver, Prince George – population 80,000 – sits on the boreal plain surrounded by miles and miles of not much other than landand lakes. Part of this, relatively inexpensive, land was recently purchased in order to fulfill a C$36 million (US$28 million) vision to turn the Prince George Airport (YXS) into a refueling and technical stop for cargo planes servicing the transpacific trade lane and later, … [Read more...] about Bold cargo vision for tiny PG Airport