AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has delivered twenty-eight shiny new Maserati Gran Turismo vehicles onboard one of its Boeing 747 freighters from Milan to Tokyo. The charter flight on behalf of Agility Logistics was operated from the largest airport in Milan, Malpensa, to Narita Airport with a stop at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport in compliance with all standard […]
Ukrainian manufacturer Antonov is considering its own low-cost airline. The company’s director Mykhailo Kharchenko said that although it’s cheaper to build aircraft and later lease them to other carriers, the possibility of creating Antonov’s low-cost airline is discussed. “Of course, it is a huge responsibility to start this type of airline business, ” Kharchenko said […]
Kingboard Chemical announced selling a 9.61% share in Cathay Pacific Airways to Qatar Airways, making the latter the third-biggest stakeholder in Hong Kong’s flag carrier. This is also the first Middle Eastern investment into an East Asian airline. Kingboard Chemical announced the agreement of selling 9.61% of the total issued share capital of Cathay Pacific […]
British all-cargo airline, CargoLogicAir (CLA), is adding Tel Aviv to its growing network of scheduled freighter operations. Starting on 10 November 2017, the London Stansted-based airline will operate a weekly Boeing 747-400F service to Tel Aviv via Frankfurt. The flight will depart Frankfurt for Tel Aviv on Friday evening before returning to Frankfurt on Saturday […]
Airbus is working with Emirates, the biggest buyer of its A380 aircraft, on a new order for A380 aircraft, Bloomberg informs. The two sides should agree on terms of the future agreement before the Dubai Air Show, which starts on November 12, 2017, Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum said on November 3, […]
The independent German airline Germania has returned to Berlin-Tegel airport after a three-year absence. On November 1, 2017, the carrier stationed an airplane at the airport and held an inaugural flight to the Gran Canarias. Now the airline will be operating from two Berlin airports –Schönefeld and Tegel. Aircraft maintenance will be carried out in […]
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has used the special two-tier car racking system developed for its An-124-100 freighter fleet to deliver 30 vehicles on a single flight to Luanda for the inauguration ceremony of Angola’s newly-elected President, Joao Lourenco. The valuable 90-tonne payload of vehicles was transported from Leipzig on behalf of the Angolan Embassy in Germany. It […]
