DHL and Etihad Cargo increase connectivity through Middle... 
Express and logistics provider DHL and Etihad Cargo have agreed to share capacity on DHL’s new five-times-a-week freighter service operating through Abu Dhabi. The new cargo services use DHL’s Airbus A300-600 freighter fleet, and operate from Bahrain to Abu Dhabi and onwards to... more
Flynas to operate Jeddah–Jakarta service with B747
Starting tomorrow (15 February) and until 30 April 2014, the Saudi carrier Flynas, which rebranded last November from Nasair, is offering a service between its hub in Jeddah and the Indonesian capital Jakarta on board a leased Boeing B747 aircraft. The route will be served... more
IAG Cargo begins A380 operations to Johannesburg
IAG Cargo has marked another major milestone in its fleet modernisation programme as British Airways celebrated the start of commercial flights with a brand new Airbus A380 to Johannesburg (South Africa). Replacing the B747 model on the route, the new A380 aircraft offers... more
Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo: "Love is in the air"
From 30 January until yesterday (9 February), more than 800 t of flowers originating from Kenya, Ecuador and Colombia were flown to Europe by Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo. The tonnage, which was in addition to the regular flower transport, was mainly for supplying the British,... more
New South African cargo carrier to take off this month
Khuphuka Kings Airways, a new Durban (South Africa)-based airline owned by Khuphuka Investments Holdings, has secured scheduled flights between Durban and Lubumbashi (DRC), with stopovers at Ndola (Zambia). The airline is poised to utilise three cargo aircraft - two IL-76s and... more
IAG Cargo adding Mexico and Cape Town capacity
In two months' time IAG Cargo, the business created by the merger of British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo, will increase its cargo capacities to South Africa and Mexico. An additional weekly flight will provide extra capacity to Central America from 27 April. The... more
Overcoming the final frontier 
All the experts believe that Africa has a great potential. Developments in countries that have been severely scarred by civil war, such as Sierra Leone and Liberia, show that the upwards trend can kick in rapidly. After a decade of building up his firm Christian Overgaard, who... more
Heavylift services in East Africa
The enterprise Steder Group FZCO, a subsidiary of the Rhoon-based Dutch freight forwarding and logistics service enterprise Steder Group BV, specialises in heavylift and project cargo activities in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan. more
New freighter accident and revelations about Embraer crash
Further to the Aviation Safety Network, the captain of LAM flight 470 that crashed in Namibia on 29 November 2013 (see ITJ Daily of 3 December 2013) deliberately caused the accident. Preliminary investigation results indicate that the sudden descent of LAM flight TM-470 from... more
Iata sees slower international freight growth until 2017
The International Air Transport Association (Iata) Airline Industry Forecast 2013-2017 shows that international freight volumes are expected to grow by 17% over the next five years. This consensus outlook incorporates a conservative estimate of the recovery in global economic... more