Brazil’s postal service seeks a stake in Rio Linhas Aéreas
Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos SA, Brazil’s state postal service, filed a request with the country’s antitrust authority to ...
Every dog has its day
Ever since the 9/11 Commission mandated that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration screen 100 percent of all cargo on passenger ...
MD-87 Fire Tanker conversion certified
US-based Erickson Aero Tanker received Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for its MD-87 passenger-to-firefighting tanker program. Erickson has so far converted ...
Astral Aviation to expand freighter fleet
Kenya-based all-cargo carrier Astral Aviation will expand its freighter fleet and also move into the passenger business. Astral will sell ...
ICBC to buy 747-8 Freighters?
According to a Bloomberg report, China-based ICBC Financial Leasing Co. is in talks with Boeing about the purchase of four ...
GSS hangs onto AOC by a thread
The future of embattled Global Supply Systems (GSS), the UK-based operator (49%-owned by Atlas Air) that lost British Airways’ ACMI ...
TIACA welcomes TSA decision to nix cargo screening reports
The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) welcomed the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) decision to lift requirements for air cargo ...
TSA ends air cargo screening reporting
The US Transportation Security Administration this week announced it will no longer require carriers and freight forwarders to provide air ...
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