Aerolíneas incrementarán 13% los ingresos por servicios complementarios
Al finalizar el año se calcula que las compañías aéreas del mundo habrán sumado, entre todas, ingresos por 92.900 millones de dólares en concepto de servicios complementarios, lo que supondrá un crecimiento del 13%, respecto al 2017, según los cálculos de CarTrawler e IdeaWorksCompany. Casi el 70% del total corresponderá a cargos por actividades a […]
Turkish Cargo ordena tres nuevos B777F
Boeing y Turkish Airlines anunciaron un contrato por tres aviones cargueros B777F, con un valor aproximado de mil 17 millones de dólares, a precios de catálogo. Con esta orden, la aerolínea bandera de Turquía busca convertirse la empresa de carga aérea más grande del mundo. El B777F está basado en el 777-200LR y puede volar […]
Corporación América Airports report October 2018 total passenger traffic of USD 7m
Private sector airport operator Corporación América Airports S.A. (NYSE: CAAP) has reported 7.07m in total passenger traffic on October 2018, compared to 6.76m in October 2017, an increase of 4.5%, the company said. Total passenger traffic in October 2018 reflects growth of 5.6% in Argentina, 4.9% in Italy and 14.2% in Armenia. Cargo volume declined […]
Avianca Cargo adds Brussels freighter flights
Avianca Cargo has become the latest airline to add freighter flights to Brussels Airport as the hub continues to gain cargo volumes. The new Avianca service will fly to the Belgian hub twice a week – on Fridays and Sundays – utilising an Airbus A330F aircraft. The service will operate on a Bogota, Miami, Brussels, […]
China Post and Lufthansa Cargo in strategic cooperation
Lufthansa Cargo and China Post Group Corp have inked a strategic cooperation that has the cargo capacity scope of a weekly Boeing 777 freighter on the Shanghai (PVG) – Frankfurt (FRA) route. Li Xiong, vice president of the official postal service of the People’s Republic of China, and Peter Gerber, chief executive and chairman of […]
Salmon demand helps keep LATAM’s cargo traffic growing
LATAM Cargo saw revenues and volumes improve in the third quarter of the year, with demand for salmon helping to propel demand. The Chile-headquartered carrier, which operates 10 B767-300Fs, recorded total cargo revenues for the period of $279m, up 2.5% year on year, while cargo traffic improved by the same amount on a year earlier […]
Emirates’ H1 cargo volumes down slightly, while profits under pressure
Emirates SkyCargo recorded a slight dip in freight traffic during the first half of the year, while the overall group saw profits slide compared with a year ago. Figures released today by the Emirates Group show that cargo volumes for the first half of 2019 declined by 1% year on year to 1.3m tonnes while […]
LATAM Airlines Group reports preliminary monthly statistics for October 2018
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its subsidiaries, (“LATAM Airlines Group” or “the Company”) (NYSE: LTM / IPSA: LTM), reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for October 2018 compared with the same period of 2017. System passenger traffic increased 1.5%, while capacity rose by 7.0%. As a result, the Company’s load factor for the month fell […]
Heathrow Airport soars with another consecutive month of growth
Heathrow has reported that during October the airport experienced strong passenger growth of nearly 4.5 per cent; almost seven million passengers travelled through the airport, which was reinforced by the half-term getaway traffic. Heathrow marked two years of consecutive record monthly volumes for the hub airport. The increases in passenger numbers are coming from larger […]
IATA announces e-AWB as default effective 1 January 2019
Effective 1 January 2019, the electronic Air Waybill (e-AWB) will become the default contract of carriage for all air cargo shipments on enabled trade lanes. This key industry milestone ushers air cargo into a new era where digital processes will be the norm and paper processes will be the exception. e-AWB brings numerous benefits such […]
