Air Cargo

A planned trans-Atlantic alliance between American Airlines, British Airways and Spain's Iberia may violate anti-trust rules, European Union competition regulators said Oct. 2.

FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding subsidiary of FedEx, appointed Fred Schardt president and chief executive officer, effective Oct. 1.

Air France and KLM are integrating their commercial operations in the United States Oct. 1, more than five years after their merger.

After a long decline from April 2008, world air freight volume is on the way up again.

Shareowners of FedEx on Monday elected David P. Steiner to the corporation’s board of directors for a one-year term. The board appointed Steiner to its audit committee.

In an escalation of direct marketing, UPS is delivering premium offers and samples from some of the nation’s best-known brands and retailers to recipients of UPS residential shipments.

Air freight traffic is slowly recovering in the Asia Pacific region, according to figures released Friday by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines.

Los Angeles International Airport, in a new sign of improving stability in Asia-Pacific shipping, reported its busiest month for freight in nearly a year in August and the fourth straight month-to-mon

Same-day package company Velocity Express filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors today, announcing plans to restructure under a new owner, ComVest, in a debt-for-equity swap.

The House passed a new extension of funding for the Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday, as members conceded they still can't cope with a broader and long-delayed plan that would overhaul the na

DHL Express, the global delivery company, launched a 767 freighter express service across the Atlantic.

FedEx Express took delivery Tuesday of its first 777 freighter during ceremonies with the Boeing Company in Everett, Wash.

John Ryan will direct sales in the New York region for cargo sales agent Airline Network Services.

DHL officials said Tuesday they did not lose "significant" amounts of international express business as a result of the carrier's withdrawal from domestic air express service in the United S

Machinery manufacturer Krones awarded Panalpina the distribution of spare parts from Europe into the Asia Pacific and Greater China area.

Purolator USA expanded service to the Canadian border for Los Angeles and other regional businesses.

TNT Express, Europe's second largest express delivery carrier, boosted capacity on the Europe-China route on Sept. 18 with the addition of a new 747 extended range freighter.

Cathay Pacific Airways’ cargo tonnage fell in August at the smallest rate of the year, a 6.3 percent decline the airline said provided greater evidence that the air freight downturn has bottomed

European aerospace company Airbus on Sept. 17 forecast global air cargo traffic will grow by 5.2 percent annually over the next twenty years.

FedEx reported a $181 million profit Thursday for its fiscal quarter ending Aug.

Even as UPS and mechanics spread around 80 U.S.

The world’s airlines have grounded 227 freighters, or nearly 12 percent of the fleet of all-cargo planes, in response to the global economic downturn that has cut steeply into cargo traffic and

William R. DeCota, the aviation director at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, died on Friday, the Port Authority announced. He was 52.

Striking flight crewmembers at cargo airline Amerijet International overwhelmingly approved a contract settlement that could put them back to work in a week, the Teamsters union announced Monday.

The Teamsters union, already fighting legal and legislative battles to organize FedEx workers in the United States, said Monday it is launching a “large-scale campaign” to bring FedEx work

Japan Air Lines will discontinue three weekly freighter flights between Tokyo and London next month as it reviews its cargo network in response to declining traffic.

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest airline, reportedly plans to transfer its freighter operations to Martinair, its low cost Dutch subsidiary, in the next two years as part of a radical restructuring of

The union representing striking flight crewmembers at Amerijet International reached a tentative agreement with the cargo airline, negotiators said Friday, and members will vote on the pact over the w

FedEx issued an upbeat new view of the economy Friday, saying its earnings could end up nearly double earlier projections in part because of gains in international express shipping.

London - BAA, the world's biggest airport operator, said the decline in freight traffic at its seven UK hubs, including London Heathrow, slowed in August for the fourth month running.

Frankfurt airport said the decline in cargo traffic slowed in August to the lowest rate in 2009, providing further evidence of recovery in the global air freight market.

CHAMP Cargosystems, a provider of IT solutions to airlines and freight forwarders, joined Cargo 2000.

DHL will eliminate 560 jobs in Germany as a result of the insolvency of German retailer Arcandor, the company announced.

Boeing predicts the Asia Pacific region will become the world’s largest aviation market over the next 20 years, investing more than $1 trillion in new airplanes.

Malaysia Airlines Cargo launched service to Narita International Airport, Japan’s busiest air freight hub.

The International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Air Transport Association will create two Web-based products under a commercial agreement to facilitate the implementation of danger

Lufthansa Cargo's freight volume fell 1.1 percent in August from a year ago, ending several months of double digit declines.

Air France-KLM said its cargo traffic was stable in August for the fourth month running after steep falls earlier in the year.

Imports into Hong Kong International Airport grew for the first time this year in August, the airport’s top cargo handler said Wednesday in a new sign of improving stability in a battered Asia a

Japan's two largest airlines saw the deep slump in their international cargo operations ease in July, their monthly reports show, amid growing hopes for a global economic recovery.