Mercury Air Group has announced a strategic alliance with Dubai-based Red Orange to provide freight logistics services into Iraq and Afghanistan. The alliance combines Mercury’s whollyowned subsidiaries, Mercury Air Cargo and Maytag Aircraft Corporation with Red Orange to provide services into hostile regions in the Middle East and North Africa. The freight logistics services utilise Mercury’s relationships with international airlines servicing the region as well as … [Read more...] about MIDDLE EAST: Mercury & Red Orange serve Afghan & Iraq
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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
MNG ups its order for A330 freighters
MNG Airlines, the largest Turkish all-cargo operator, has placed a follow-on order with Airbus for two more A330-200Fs to support its expanding cargo operations. These aircraft are in addition to the two firm orders for the A330-200F which the carrier placed in 2007, bringing its total orders for the type now to four aircraft. According to Airbus, the A330F programme is on track with the first A330-200 Freighter now assembled and others nearing completion. First flight is anticipated later this … [Read more...] about MNG ups its order for A330 freighters
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
AAPA: Asia cargo volumes recovering but weak
Preliminary figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) for August, point to a slowly recovering air cargo sector. For the month of August, international cargo traffic for AAPA member airlines in terms of freight tonne kilometres rose to 3.9 million FTK, a very close second to July's 3.95 million FTK. While tonnage was still 12.2 per cent below last August, the figure was second to July's 11.4 per cent drop from last year and a healthy improvement over the previous eight … [Read more...] about AAPA: Asia cargo volumes recovering but weak
Gov’t task force looking at JAL options
A government task force set up to help rescue Japan Airlines Corp said today it would review the carrier's turnaround plans from scratch as investors dumped shares in Japan Airlines (JAL) on Thursday following reports that the loss-making carrier would request another government bailout and could break up its operations. Japan's transport minister said he will not force the struggling carrier, Asia's biggest, into bankruptcy. "We will not crush and liquidate (the airline), it's just impossible," … [Read more...] about Gov’t task force looking at JAL options
