Air Cargo Carriers News

Japan Airlines ended negotiations with Japan's largest shipping firm Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha on integrating its cargo operations with NYK's air cargo arm, Nippon Cargo Airlines, JAL said Tuesday

The world’s largest freighter aircraft, the Antonov An-225, has delivered 110 metric tons of earthmoving equipment, tents and other relief supplies to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, t

Beginning late last year, freight demand helped Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings withstand the global economic downturn in the fourth quarter as the freighter operator posted a $23.8 million net profit.

Lufthansa Cargo and Austrian Airlines will merge their global freight operations, including sales and flights, effective July 1.

Southern Air Holdings is adding two 777 freighters to its ACMI fleet. One was delivered earlier this month, and the next is due March 2.

At four o’clock in the morning of Feb. 22, American Airlines Cargo Division opened its expanded terminal at Los Angeles International Airport.

Lufthansa plans to operate just over half its scheduled 1,800 flights Feb. 23 after pilots suspended their four day strike.

Icelandair Group has confirmed that it plans to sell Bluebird, a freighter arm that sits alongside its own Icelandair Cargo subsidiary and chiefly operates on a wet-lease basis.

Lufthansa pilots Feb. 17 voted heavily in favor of a four day strike next week at Lufthansa, Europe's second largest airline.

Lufthansa Cargo plans to reduce its workforce by 10 percent in 2010 as it cuts freighter flights in response to the slump in the global air cargo market.

Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways saw their international cargo volume surge in December on a year-on-year basis, according to figures released by the two biggest Japanese air carriers.

Airbus expects freighter fleets to grow five times by 2030 as region dominates the market

Lufthansa Cargo said its 2,600 ground staff workers in Germany will have some of their reduced work hours restored Feb. 28 in response to signs of recovering traffic.

Lufthansa Cargo carried 18.6 percent more cargo in January than a year ago even as it slashed the number of freighter flights by a quarter.

Japan Airlines announced on Tuesday its decision to maintain and strengthen its business relationship with American Airlines, rejecting a rival offer from the largest U.S.

Japan Airlines is very likely to maintain its business relationship with American Airlines, rejecting a rival offer from Delta Air Lines, Japanese media reports said, in an apparent flip-flop because

Air France-KLM, Europe’s biggest air cargo carrier, reported freight traffic rose 2 percent in January from a year ago, driven by a recovery on its key Asia-Pacific routes.

UPS nearly tripled its net profit in the fourth quarter, as a strong surge in international demand and unexpected domestic holiday shipping pushed earnings to $757 million at the end of the year, the

In years past, an incident such as the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a Northwest Airlines flight would have resulted in many and loud calls for new inspection procedures for cargo carrie

China’s Hainan Airlines will convert six 737-300 passenger planes into freighters in a move to increase regional and domestic air cargo capacity in the region.

Air France-KLM signed a letter of intent to sell two new 777 freighters to FedEx as it downsizes its all-cargo operation.

Brussels airport's cargo traffic slumped by a third in 2009 from the previous year as DHL, the express carrier, completed the move of its European hub to Germany and another major customer, Cargo B, f

New York’s Kennedy International Airport saw its first year-over-year expansion in freight tonnage in two-and-a-half years in November, eking out a 0.2 percent gain that signaled the gateway is

DHL Express, trying to close the books on its painful withdrawal from U.S. domestic business, said Tuesday it will donate its Wilmington Airport facility to local authorities in Ohio.

Lufthansa Cargo pilots will vote on strike action after the German carrier and their union failed to reach agreement on a new contract.

With shipments valued in the tens of millions of dollars, Pfizer is no stranger to cargo security, so the pharmaceutical giant is taking part in the Transportation Security Administration’s Cert

AeroLogic, the joint venture cargo airline of DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, is adding flights from Germany to the United States and Hong Kong following the delivery of two 777 freighters.

The parent of Air China, the largest freight airline in China, will get a $220 million government subsidy to expand its stake in cargo operations, the airline said Monday.

FedEx Express introduced its first 777 freighter service from Shanghai, China to the FedEx hub in Memphis, Tenn.

International cargo volume grew for Japan’s two largest airlines in November, but domestic cargo declined.

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest cargo airline, carried 8.5 percent less freight in December than a year ago, led by a double digit drop in traffic on the key Asia-Pacific network.

The air freight industry faces an August deadline to meet U.S. government mandates to have 100 percent of the cargo on passenger aircraft screened.

Despite a drop of more than 10 percent in sales for a foundation of the electronics industry, the Semiconductor Industry Association raised projections for the year ahead, based on better-than-expecte

To judge from the number of carriers and logistics providers that unveiled temperature-controlled products in 2009, the industry sector was a bastion of stability in a crumbling world.

Miami-based ASTAR Air Cargo will lay off over 300 pilots by July 1, 2010 as a result of reduced flying for DHL.

Freight traffic at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport slumped by almost a fifth in 2009.

Swiss WorldCargo said it will launch daily flights between Zurich and San Francisco in early June, effectively doubling freight capacity between its European cargo hub and the U.S. West Coast.

Freight traffic for European airlines fell 12.7 percent in October, the slimmest decline of a dreadful year in air cargo, helped by a 30.7 percent surge in trade on Middle East routes, the Association

Singapore Airlines says it will restore some of its scheduled passenger flights in the coming first quarter, adding back some belly freight capacity as the carrier is starting to see an upturn in carg

FedEx will use the first two of its new 777 freighters on routes between Hong Kong and Memphis starting next month, company officials said, adding service at an Asia gateway hit hard by capacity short