Air Cargo

The Senate's chief aviation reformer proposed legislation this week to remove the Federal Aviation A

The fine paid by Boeing Co. over defects in wiring of new passenger jets is not the largest fine eve

Air France is the launch customer for Boeing Co.'s newest aircraft, the 747-400 freighter. A

SENATE VOTES TO BAN ALL US-FLIGHT SMOKINGThe Senate Thursday voted overwhelmingly to ban smo

More than 20,000 workers who build Boeing Co. jetliners stopped work Thursday, met in Seattle's dome

PAN AM URGES CAUTION ON AIR RIGHTS TALKSThomas Plaskett, president of Pan American World Air

Challenge Air Cargo recently took delivery of a Boeing 757-200 freighter it is leasing from Ansett W

Des Moines International Airport has begun construction on a new $6.7 million air cargo ramp that wi

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters recently launched a campaign to organize USAir's 1,100 ba

I HEAR IT EVERYWHERE: The international air carrier and the air freight forwarder will have to work

AUSTRALIAN AIRLINES SET TO FLY AGAINSYDNEY, Australia - Australia's domestic airlines plan t

United Airlines is asking the British government to alter its airport policy so that it may operate

Growth in airborne exports to the United States in the first half of this year was the smallest of t

Poor support from freight forwarders has forced the operator of a recently started European wholesal

The United States has been targeted as one of the key markets for a new joint venture air express co

KOHLBERG WON'T ENTER BIDDING WAR FOR UALThe leveraged buy-out firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &

James E. Larsen, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's new cargo point man at the New York

A government-industry task force Monday recommended work to increase the safety of 1,900 older McDon

Australia is expected to have a second international air cargo operator soon. The new carrie

Emery Worldwide, a leading air freight carrier, has moved its corporate inventory distribution opera

AIR CANADA PLACES BOEING AIRCRAFT ORDERAir Canada has ordered nine 767-300ER twinjets and pl

Mergers of overnight package companies such as Federal Express with major air freight players like F

A competitor dubs KLM Royal Dutch Airlines "the pirate of the skies," but hastens to add, "I say tha

Ansett Airlines Managing Director Peter Abeles said the company this week will resume some internal

A $120 million overhaul of the interior of Seattle-Tacoma Airport to create a new international trad

Westinghouse Transportation Systems of Pittsburgh has been hired to build and operate a "people move

PAN AM PLANS TO HIKE SERVICE TO FLORIDA 50 PERCENTMIAMI - Pan Am Corp. said it will increase

With air cargo volumes rising and the Boeing Co. about to open a plant nearby, Spokane International

Australia's domestic air services are likely to resume next week, Industrial Relations Minister Pete

Canada appears to be the latest competitive market for courier and express traffic from the United S

Lufthansa German Airlines is seeking to add Detroit to its U.S. gateway cities as early as next May,

Canadian shippers are pleased with the federal government's plans to build two additional runways at

A new cargo and ground-handling company will be established at Thailand's main airport early in the

Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner reaffirmed his opposition to a bill calling for the feder

In a decision that marks the end of its battle with the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Massa

Federal Express Corp., mapping its foray into global competition in air cargo transportation, has dr

Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke Wednesday labeled as "absurd" an offer by the Australian Federat

EUROPEAN AIRLINES SEEK TRAFFIC CONTROL MEETBRUSSELS, Belgium - Twenty-one European airlines

San Jose International Airport's problem in providing adequate housing for U.S. Customs Service insp

(Second in a special series of columns devoted to an overview of the air freight forwarding industry