A Qantas Airbus A380-800, enroute from Singapore to Sydney burst two tyres on landing resulting in a fire that stopped once the aircraft came to stop. The rear two tyres of the left hand main wheel assembly burst after the brakes locked during touchdown. Alarmed passengers watched on their in-flight, seat-back monitors as a tail-mounted camera caught relayed video of the incident. The weight and friction of the locked wheels running along the runway ground the wheel assemblies in half, down … [Read more...] about AUSTRALIA: Qantas A380 bursts two tyres on landing

Qantas Freight announced today that it would join Cargo 2000, the air freight industry’s premier quality management programme as an associate member. “Joining a quality management system like Cargo 2000 is a natural extension of the business transformation work we are undertaking through our Freight Futures programme,” Qantas Freight head of commercial, Theo Triantafillides said. “We are at a point in our transformation program where it makes sense to ensure our … [Read more...] about AUSTRALIA: Qantas Freight joins Cargo 2000

Evergreen International Airlines has filed a US lawsuit against The Boeing Company after it pulled a Dreamliner contract Evergreen had been counting on as a lucrative source of income for the next 20 years, awarding it to Atlas Air Inc instead. “Boeing committed bad faith and breached its contractual promises to conduct its business fairly, impartially and in an ethical and proper manner,” Evergreen alleged in the complaint, filed in US District Court in Seattle. … [Read more...] about TAIWAN: Evergreen sues Boeing over Dreamlifter contract

Thai Airways International has begun to deploy two brand-new Boeing 777 freighters on Bangkok to Frankfurt and Bangkok to Amsterdam services as it seeks to regain lost ground after years of neglect playing a distant second fiddle to the passenger side. The flag carrier last week started to use cargo capacity on the B777Fs, which are operated by Southern Air, a US-based low-cost cargo carrier, under an aircraft block space agreement (BSA) struck last year for a period of two years. The … [Read more...] about THAILAND: Thai begins new services with B777Fs

Korean Air’s cargo revenue jumped 22 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 as demand and yields increased dramatically at the end of the year, the carrier said in its annual report. The world’s largest air freight carrier, said traffic grew 15.2 per cent in the last three months of the year over the same period a year earlier, including a 25.2 per cent jump in December. The airline said its cargo yield rose 13.4 per cent to its highest level of the year. Korean … [Read more...] about KOREA: Korean saw soaring Q4 volumes and yield