Evergreen International Airlines has won preliminary US approval for a new air cargo route to China. Evergreen plans to acquire two Boeing 747-400F freighters to operate six round-trip flights a week to Shanghai from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, with stops in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth and Columbus, Ohio. The airline plans to carry about 360 tonnes of cargo a week out of China starting March 2009. Unlike competitors that pick up cargo in South Korea and elsewhere, … [Read more...] about Taiwan: Evergreen gets US green light for China
Carriers
China: Air China sees volumes slide in August
Air China says it carried 68,000 tonnes of cargo in August, down 4.1 per cent on August 2007. Its eight month rolling comparison for the year was 552,384 tonnes, little changed from the same period of 2007. The cargo load factor for August was 56.2 per cent, down 0.5 percentage points, while the passenger load factor for Jan-August was 58.1 percent, up 4.7 percentage points. … [Read more...] about China: Air China sees volumes slide in August
China: Possible China Eastern, Shanghai Air merger
China Eastern Airlines’ (CEA) president Cao Jinxiong said recently that government shareholders in his company and Shanghai Airlines (SA) are discussing a merger of the two carriers, the Wall Street Journal reported. He said that the government plans to inject capital into CEA before merging it with SA, at which point the combined entity would consider a possible stake sale to Singapore Airlines. “Both [deals], with Shanghai Airlines and Singapore Airlines are possible. But for … [Read more...] about China: Possible China Eastern, Shanghai Air merger
United Airlines
UAL Corporation, the holding company whose primary subsidiary is United Airlines, announced that Kathryn Mikells will be named senior vice president and chief financial officer, succeeding Jake Brace, executive vice president and chief financial officer, who is retiring 1 November. In her new position, Mikells, who has held several leadership roles in the finance organisation, will be responsible for treasury, tax, the controller function, budgets, financial planning and analysis, accounting, … [Read more...] about United Airlines
Air Canada
Air Canada has announced the president and chief executive officer of Air Canada Cargo, Claude Morin is its new vice president, Global Sales. Morin succeeds Marc Rosenberg, vice president, Sales and Product Distribution, who will be retiring fromAir Canada this year. … [Read more...] about Air Canada
United Airlines
UAL Corporation, the holding company whose primary subsidiary is United Airlines, announced that Donald Dillman has been named vice president of Operations Control. In this position, Dillman will oversee United’s Operations Control Center and have responsibility for decisions affecting more than 1,600 daily mainline flights. He will have operational management responsibilities for flight dispatch, system controllers, aircraft routers, maintenance workload planners, air traffic control … [Read more...] about United Airlines
