Air Canada augmenting cargo capacity to Latin America 
Air Canada Cargo's service to and from Latin America is getting a boost at the end of October thanks to aircraft upgrades to Brazil, Chile and Argentina. From 26 October, flights to Sao Paulo, Santiago and Buenos Aires will be operated with Boeing B777 aircraft. The carrier... more
Norwegian brings trans-Atlantic routes to Gatwick
Norwegian is continuing its international expansion as it takes delivery of more B787 Dreamliners. The carrier is now adding London Gatwick (UK) to its intercontinental route map after launching new European routes from Gatwick earlier this year. The airport to the south of... more
Singapore – Centre of the logistics world 
The Fiata World Congress took place in Singapore for the second time after 1991, this time in honour of the 40th year of the Singapore Logistics Association (SLA). more
Latin America's biggest Airbus aircraft order
The VivaAerobus Group has signed a purchase agreement for 52 Airbus A320 family aircraft (40 A320neos and twelve A320ceos), representing the biggest Airbus aircraft order by a single airline in Latin American history. VivaAerobus, part-owned by IAMSA, one of Mexico’s... more
Aerolineas Argentinas modernizes fleet with Boeing
The US airframe manufacturer Boeing and Aerolineas Argentinas, the flag carrier of Argentina, have completed an agreement for 20 next-generation B737-800 airplanes. The agreement, worth USD 1.8 billion at list prices, will play a key role in Aerolineas Argentinas' continued... more
Yangtze River Express increases frequencies to Hahn
This week, the Shanghai (China)-based airline Yangtze River Express is increasing the number of flights from the German airport Frankfurt Hahn from the current six to eight per week. The airline, which operated its first flight from Hahn to Beijing in August 2012, deploys... more
Bahrain Airport Services implements Galaxy
Bahrain Airport Services (BAS), represented by its general manager Yousif Mahmood Al-Hanafi (right), has gone live with Galaxy, the airport ground handling system developed by the Indian IT services company Kale and delivered through its local Bahrain partner, K-Soft Company... more
Training for rural Alaskan airport operators
Rural airport contractors responsible for maintaining state airports in Alaska (USA) recently received training on airport operations, safety, equipment operation and maintenance, lighting system maintenance, and education on how vital the contractors are to their community and... more
FedEx displays first B767-300F scheduled for service
FedEx Express, an operating company of FedEx Corp, based in Memphis TN (USA), recently introduced its new B767-300 cargo jet scheduled to begin service this autumn. Delivered to FedEx from Boeing last month (cf. ITJ Daily of 6 September), the aircraft is the first of several new... more
Monthly volume decline at world's busiest cargo airport
Hong Kong international airport (HKIA) reported handling 344,000 t in September 2013, a modest decline of 0.8% compared to the same month last year. The decrease in cargo throughput last month was mainly attributed to a 3% year-on-year drop in imports. Exports recorded a slight... more