Europe’s second-largest airline, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, said passenger traffic rose 3.9 per cent last month after the German carrier increased frequencies and added routes to Asia and the US and within Europe. Lufthansa’s cargo division handled 0.2 per cent more freight with a 0.9 per cent rise in the load factor to 69.4 per cent. On the passenger side, the load factor climbed 0.6 percentage points in September from a year earlier to 79.7 percent. The Cologne-based airline … [Read more...] about EUROPE/CIS: Lufthansa's load factors stable
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INDIA: Boeing delivers Air India's First 777
The Boeing Company and Mumbai-based Air India recently celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first 777-300ER aircraft. This is the first 777-300ER from Air India’s order of 68 Boeing jetliners placed in December 2005. In July 2007, Boeing and Air India celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first 777, a 777-200LR Worldliner aircraft. To date, Air India has received 14 airplanes from its December 2005 order, including three 777-200LRs and one 777-300ER, and 10 737-800s … [Read more...] about INDIA: Boeing delivers Air India's First 777
SINGAPORE: Tiger's growing appetite for A320s
Budget carrier, Tiger Airways, has signed a contract for an additional 30 Airbus A320s and 20 options. Tiger Airways currently operates a fleet of nine A320s, with 11 more to be delivered by 2010. With the latest order and option package, Tiger Airways’ fleet has the ability to grow to 70 A320s. Th e A320s will be deployed on the airline’s Asia Pacific and Australian networks that currently extends to 20 services in seven countries, as well as the new Australian domestic … [Read more...] about SINGAPORE: Tiger's growing appetite for A320s
SINGAPORE: Singapore's A380 service takes to the skies
The world’s largest passenger airliner flew into the history books last month when Singapore Airlines’ first A380 made its maiden commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney. The majority of the seats on the two legs of this flight were sold on eBay, the global online marketplace, with the proceeds of nearly S$2 million donated to charity. Singapore Airlines first announced its intention to become an A380 customer in September 2000, with an order for 10 A380s and options on a … [Read more...] about SINGAPORE: Singapore's A380 service takes to the skies
Too many freighters, too little cargo?
The second topic for the round table discussion was the new rash of new aircraft orders, and whether these wouldlead to overcapacity in air cargo. Michael Steen, senior vice president and chief marketing offi cer for Atlas Air insisted the new aircraft orders would not drive overcapacity. “Some markets might experience overcapacity, but over time there will be key drivers thatdemand more capacity,” he said. Asked if Polar Air Cargo, a subsidiary of Atlas Air, was not reducing … [Read more...] about Too many freighters, too little cargo?
What’s holding India back?
Is the Indian market boom being held back by a lack of infrastructure? That was the fi rst topic to be considered by an expert round table panel in the fi nal session of Air FreightAsia 2007. Launching the discussion Jay Shelat, vice president cargo at Jet Airways, offered the gloomy view that infrastructure put India 25-30 years behind China, and said unions and the government were “working together toprevent progress”. But he said that the only solution for an airline … [Read more...] about What’s holding India back?
