The International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) has announced new lease deals and deliveries with 21 airline customers for periods of between two and seven years. These include two new A330-200s to Garuda Indonesia, one new 777-300ER to V Australia, one used 737-500 to Aerosvit, one used 737-300 to Sharjah-based AVE.com, one used 747-400F to Air Atlanta Icelandic, two used A320-200s to Moscow Vnukovobased Avianova, one used 757-200ER to Madrid-based charter carrier Mint Airways, one used … [Read more...] about AMERICAS: ILFC announces lease deals with 21 carriers

Polet Airlines has begun a new service between Moscow Domodedovo International Airport and Yakutsk utilising an IL-96-400T freighter for both charter and scheduled air cargo service. Polet is seeking approval to operate the IL-96-400T into the airports of: Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, Anadyr, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Abakan , Yaroslavl, Kaz an, Samara and Bratsk. … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: Polet makes first flight from Domodedovo

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled cargo services arm of Volga- Dnepr Group, has transported nine rare Akhal-Teke horses for breeding from Russia to China. The horses were carried onboard one of ABC’s Boeing 747 freighters from Moscow to Beijing for a customer in Beijing planning to raise the elite bloodstock. Three special bays, each divided into three pens, were manufactured for the journey. The horses were monitored by bloodstock and veterinary specialists throughout … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: AirBridgeCargo carries rare Akhal-Teke Horses to China

Russian flag carrier Aeroflot plans to slash another 2,000 jobs out of its 15,000 staff, in the next six months. The airline announced its 2008 profits dropped 88 per cent due to higher kerosene and oil prices and net losses in its cargo operations. Aeroflot Cargo declared bankruptcy in June. … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: Massive job cuts at Aeroflot

Aeroflot-Cargo has reported August cargo volumes amounting to 14,140 tonnes of freight and mail, which have exceeded last year’s volumes by 4.3 per cent. Of the total, 7,659 tonnes were uplifted on flights of Aeroflot’s passenger network while Aeroflot-Cargo’s freighter fleet of three MD-11Fs carried 6,480 tonnes exceeding last year’s volumes by 10.7 per cent. The Russian cargo carrier’s volumes this year have grown month-on-month from … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: Aeroflot-Cargo’s August volumes up 4.3% on ‘08

Coyne Airways, the British carrier noted for serving difficult markets such as Iraq and Afghanistan, has appointed Air Proxy as its first ever GSSA for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Air Proxy is the exclusive member of the EGSAC network for the Baltic States, and is the tenth EGSAC member to represent Coyne Airways. Air Proxy sees considerable potential in Coyne Airways’ B747 freighter services from Frankfurt and Cologne to its Tbilisi hub, from which it serves Aktau, Atyrau, … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: Coyne picks Air Proxy for Eastern Europe