Air Cargo Carriers News

Air Transport Services Group, still coping with the loss of major business from DHL, lost a major contract with All Nippon Airways this month and will drop four aircraft from the network it operates i

London -- British Airways and Spain's Iberia are edging close to agreement on a merger that would create an airline with a one million tonne-a-year cargo business.

Air Transport Services Group, the main provider of air services to DHL in the United States, lost $64.2 million in the fourth quarter as DHL withdrew from domestic air express service in the United St

FedEx is holding billions of dollars worth of business – and jobs – over the heads of Congress and the Obama administration by conditioning future aircraft purchases on keeping its parcel

London -- The world's airlines face losses of $4.7 billion this year as the deepening global recession shrinks cargo and passenger revenues, the International Air Transport Association said.

Israel Aerospace Industries' Bedek Aviation Group delivered a 737-400 Bedek Special Freighter Configuration on March 15 to General Electric Commercial Aviation Service.

A FedEx cargo plane crashed and burst into flame on landing at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport early Monday morning.

Aer Lingus appointed Remo Hanselmann head of cargo. He will be responsible for the development and targeted expansion of Aer Lingus’ cargo division.

London -- Lufthansa Cargo warned March 19 it might ground more freighters and extend shorter hours for pilots and ground workers if global freight traffic keeps falling.

FedEx earnings plunged in the company’s fiscal third quarter as a result of the global recession.

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London -- Deutsche Post World Net on March 11 unveiled a new strategy that focuses on fusing its freight forwarding, supply chain logistics and express delivery businesses under the DHL brand.

London – Lufthansa Cargo on March 10 reported freight traffic in February tumbled 24.9 percent from a year ago as the deepening global recession slashed shipments on its Americas and Asian route

London – The cargo unit of Alitalia, Europe’s seventh largest air freight carrier last year, is about to be sold, the bankruptcy administrator of Italy’s national airline said.

London – Lufthansa, Europe’s second largest airline, idled four freighters as part of a plan to cut capacity by 20 percent amid an accelerating decline in traffic across its global network

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, parent Atlas Air and majority shareholder of Polar Air Cargo, named Edward J. McGarvey vice president and treasurer.

Airlines are mothballing planes in record numbers as global demand withers.

TOKYO -- Japan's two largest airlines reported dramatic declines in their international cargo volume in December amid the deepening global economic slump.

The latest fines in the global air cargo price-fixing scandal suggest investigations are far from winding down.

U.S. airlines burned less fuel in 2008 and paid considerably less for it.

Nose-diving Asia imports sent cargo traffic at San Francisco International Airport plunging 36 percent in December, giving the major trans-Pacific gateway a 14.4 percent decline in overall freight bus

Cargo Aircraft Management, a subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group, signed an option agreement to lease up to five 767-200 freighters to Amerijet International, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Italy's Alitalia aims to slash about a third of its more than 20,000-strong work force and move anot

Lufthansa Cargo took over cargo-handling operations for Aer Lingus at New York's John F. Kennedy Int

Aer Lingus Cargo has outsourced its cargo sales, marketing and customer service functions in the Uni

State-owned Air India, in the midst of an overhaul ahead of privatization, expects a $17 million los

Aeroflot will cut its once-weekly service to Miami when a new profit-optimizing route strategy is re

A bilateral agreement between India and Britain will allow state-owned Air India to carry freight an

The Irish government said it gave the go-ahead for state-owned airline Aer Lingus to join the Onewor

Aer Lingus will launch a new service on Friday between Los Angeles and Dublin.The service, u

The best way to ride out the turbulence in the Russian air- cargo market this year, according to

The chairman of Airbus Industrie warned Thursday that European nations may retaliate against Air Ind

Aer Lingus, Ireland's troubled national airline, said Thursday that it was selling its Copthorne Hot

Air India, the country's international carrier, will invest US$2 billion in the next four years to r

Air India will boost freighter capacity out of the country to 160 metric tons a week starting next m

State-run Air India has put off divesting its government equity and tapping global money markets, bo

Aeroflot, Russia's largest international airline, plans to begin flying passengers and freight this

Russian state international airline Aeroflot needs $1.2 billion to help replace its aging fleet of n

Debt-laden Irish state airline Aer Lingus may cut staff by 10 percent and has had "strategic allianc