CF EMEA 2019: innovation targets for air freight

FRANKFURT – A crowd of senior air cargo executives gathered for the first-ever Cargo Facts EMEA conference, held this year at the Westin Grand Frankfurt. During the opening session, executives with Cargolux, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, and Volga-Dnepr Group gave delegates their perspectives on how the industry must innovate or potentially be left behind as […]

• Caryn Livingston
• February 5, 2019

Freighter aircraft transactions through the end of January

Every week in Cargo Facts Update, we include a list of recent freighter aircraft transactions, and then a comprehensive summary in the monthly issue of Cargo Facts. Each reference to a freighter aircraft transaction (FAT) in our publications contains a unique FAT code linked to the FAT database on the CargoFacts.com website. This database is […]

• Caryn Livingston
• February 4, 2019

EgyptAir Cargo plans redelivery of second freighter-converted A330-200, inducts third [VIDEO]

This month, EgyptAir Cargo will take redelivery of its second of at least three A330-200P2Fs the carrier has on order with EFW. Upon redelivery, the aircraft (709) will be utilized to expand service to destinations in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Ahead of the redelivery, the carrier this week ferried a third A330-200 (610) […]

• Charles Kauffman
• February 1, 2019

The widebody freighter fleet part III: New widebody operators gravitate toward 767Fs

Today we offer the final section of the 2019 edition of our annual widebody freighter fleet analysis. We began this year’s analysis of the worldwide widebody freighter fleet earlier this week with a look at the composition of the fleet on a carrier-by-carrier basis. You can review part I here. Part II continued with an […]

• Charles Kauffman
• January 31, 2019

Kalitta Air files complaint over slot allocation at AMS

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) reported a 2.5% decline in freight volumes and 10.4% drop in full freighter movements year-over-year for 2018, as freighter traffic at the airport has been challenged since 2017, when AMS began enforcing a rule requiring operators to keep to scheduled operational time “slots” 80% of the time or risk losing them. […]

• Caryn Livingston
• January 31, 2019

New cargo startup, more freighters for China

Today, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) approved the establishment of a new Chinese cargo carrier, Zhongzhou Airlines Co., Ltd., that will be based out of Zhengzhou Airport (CGO). The airport, which also serves as Cargolux’s China hub, seems to be gaining traction as a hub in the domestic Chinese cargo landscape. Zhongzhou Airlines is […]

• Chelsea Toczauer
• January 31, 2019

After record 2018, Boeing expects ‘moderated’ freighter orders in 2019

During today’s earnings call to discuss 4Q 2018 results, Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said that following the strong showing of freighter orders in 2018 – a record of eighty-three production and forty-one conversion orders – the manufacturer “expects to see new order intake to be moderated, but still at a healthy pace” for […]

• Caryn Livingston
• January 30, 2019

Chinese fiscal reform could be a boon to e-commerce, says Alibaba

The Chinese Government’s sudden affinity for fiscal policy expansion is expected to boost consumer consumption and online business activity from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through a series of pro-consumption fiscal policies, said Joe Tsai, EVP, Alibaba Group. Such fiscal policies also allay fears that new “e-commerce policies” – which aim to make gray-market transactions […]

• Charles Kauffman
• January 30, 2019