Low-cost Indian carrier SpiceJet has added Goa to its existing network of 13 domestic cargo locations. SpiceJet was one of the country’s first budget carriers to move into cargo and it currently carries about 85 tons of airfreight a day. … [Read more...] about INDIA: SpiceJet adds Goa to cargo network

Boeing has announced the opening of its Boeing Research & Technology- India centre in Bangalore which will carry out continued collaboration with Indian R&D organisations, including government agencies and private sector R&D providers, universities and other companies. The centre will coordinate the work of more than 1,500 technologists, including 100 advanced technology researchers, from across India on projects that include aero structures, aerodynamics and electronic networks. … [Read more...] about INDIA: Boeing opens Indian R&D centre

All six people aboard an Aviastar BAe 146-300 cargo aircraft ware dead after the aircraft carrying elections materials crashed last week in the mountainous area of Indonesia’s eastern Papua province. The plane was attempting to land at Wamena Airport, which is situated at the Baliem Valley with an airport elevation of 5,085 ft. and surrounded by mountains up to 12,000 ft. high. Indonesia, which relies heavily on air links across the archipelago, has one of Asia’s worst air … [Read more...] about INDONESIA: Indonesia cargo crash kills six

Japan Airlines says international cargo volumes declined for the seventh consecutive month in February on a year on year basis, plunging 38.9 per cent to 33,892 tons, while domestic volumes continued to rise until January, before dropping 0.8 per cent in February. All Nippon Airways (ANA) meanwhile, said its international cargo volume declined for the fourth consecutive month in February, year-on-year, down 26.1 per cent with its domestic cargo volume falling for the second consecutive month in … [Read more...] about JAPAN: Japanese cargo volumes continue to slide