Air Cargo

NORTHWEST AIRLINES (St. Paul, Minn.) - William H. Sitter was elected executive vice president, admin

Eastern Airlines Tuesday defended before a House subcommittee its plans to contract out the operatio

The Boeing Co. expects to build jetliners with plastic wings within 10 years, a company official sai

Airline and air freight carriers are lobbying to retain their unfettered exemption from payment of t

Affluent Asians headed for the West Coast will no longer have to settle for cable cars and sourdough

Delta Air Seeks Nod On Service to IrelandATLANTA - Delta Air Lines has filed a request with

TAKEOVERS MAKE strange bedfellows. Last week The Journal of Commerce received a Federal Expr

Particularly strong December figures helped the cargo volume handled by U.S. air carriers grow by 11

Aeroflot, which claims to be the world's largest airline, is notorious for its flight delays and poo

Expansion of cargo activities at loss-making Rotterdam Airport is one of the means being studied to

Pan Am Elects VP-OperationsNEW YORK - Daniel J. Affourtit, a Boeing 747 captain with 22 year

Transportation Secretary James Burnley agreed that fundamental changes are needed in how the Federal

The Transportation Department will apparently beat an approaching congressional deadline for releasi

No one in the travel industry had any idea what a tiger-by-the-tail frequent flyer program, born in

Being a small aerospace company in a market dominated by commercial giants, Short Brothers PLC of Be

Eastern Files Suit To Proceed With SaleMIAMI - Eastern Airlines has filed suit to defend its

Surviving Corporate Shakeouts and Improving Traffic Managers' Contribution to Corporate Profits, sem

William F. Bolger, president of the Air Transport Association, tendered his resignation Wednesday af

The chairman of Airbus Industrie of North America expressed confidence that U.S. and European offici

A regional airline in the Pacific Northwest, carrying thousands of passengers on the ground, claims

British Airways has now sorted out the key cargo management changes resultingfrom its agreed

China Selects Engines From Pratt & WhitneyEAST HARTFORD, Conn. - The Republic of China has s

Soichiro Ito, Japan's science and technology director-general, reassured Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Ala

Two trans-Atlantic airlines have started negotiations about non-stop direct traffic between Scandina

The multimillion-dollar competition between McDonnell Douglas Corp. and Europe's Airbus Industrie fo

Freight Forwarder Set To Open Denver OfficeExpeditors International of Washington Inc. will

The genesis of the air cargo industry in the United States is in the small package; and anyone old e

DHL Worldwide Express, a large international air express company, is consolidating its three geograp

Despite forecasts of a declining population impacted by aircraft noise, aviation industry analysts e

SAS Losing Business At Arlanda AirportSTOCKHOLM, Sweden - Scandinavian Airlines System, or S

This year is already showing all the hallmarks of 1987 for fledgling Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd.,

Boeing would have to recall 1,100 of its 737 jetliners to correct landing problems under a governmen

Britain's fastest growing scheduled airline has flung down the gauntlet to its competitors by announ

Sabena, Belgium's national airline, is exploring cooperation deals with other European carriers in a

The hazardous cargo that forced the emergency evacuation of 125 people from an American Airlines jet

It might sound strange when a seasoned warehouse man says companies can increase their profits by de

CAN DOT TEACH a new bureaucrat old tricks? If not, Federal Aviation Administration chief Allan McArt

Eastern Airlines will sell its Eastern Air Shuttle division to a newly created subsidiary of Texas A

Iberia to Move US HeadquartersIberia Airlines, the national airline of Spain, is moving its

Aircraft noise levels in the vicinity of Newark International Airport will be studied as part of a $