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Deluge Of Medical Cargo Cripples Shanghai Pudong Airport
Friday, May 8, 2020 - 11:10am | 1791Read More...Freight gridlock at Shanghai Pudong International Airport is so bad that some cargo planes are being forced to leave nearly empty and logistics companies are recommending ocean transportation as a faster option. Airfreight professionals describe an operational meltdown, with trucks stuck in...
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Air Canada Sees Long-Road To Recovery After Big Q1 Loss
Monday, May 4, 2020 - 1:21pm | 793Read More...Air Canada (OTCMKTS:ACDVF) said it will take three years to get back to 2019 revenue and capacity levels, and that it is accelerating the retirement of 79 older planes to make ends meet while it rides out the coronavirus crisis. That recovery timeline was echoed last week by executives at U.S....
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FEMA Expands Coronavirus Relief Flights To More Airports
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 12:34pm | 492Read More...Project Airbridge, the airlift of personal protective equipment and medical supplies coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is touching more airports and even using passenger aircraft as the flow of inbound relief supplies continues to increase. In recent days, cargo...
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Scheduled Cargo Flights With Passenger Planes Gain Traction
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 10:48am | 491Read More...Virgin Atlantic is the latest airline to put greater resources into operating scheduled cargo routes after the industry started in March offering some on-demand cargo charters when the primary market for carrying people dried up with the coronavirus pandemic. When that idea took off, airlines put...
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New Aircraft Recruited For COVID Mission; Air Cargo Gets Window Seat
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 9:44am | 1199Read More...This May will mark the 80th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation when more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were rescued from the beaches in northern France and transported to England by a hastily assembled armada of every conceivable small craft the admiralty could muster. In today's fight against...
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Delta Deep Dive: Airline Resets Cost Structure For Long Term
Friday, April 24, 2020 - 2:17pm | 830Read More...The coronavirus is forcing airlines to throw out their strategic playbooks and reimagine their cost structure both for near-term survival and preparing for a future with fewer customers. The ability to quickly pivot and conduct scenario planning for completely new market conditions was one of the...
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Delta Doubles Asia Cargo-Only Flights, Adds Atlanta Gateway
Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 12:19pm | 393Read More...Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE: DAL) is expanding its Asia cargo operations to meet high transportation demand for medical supplies and other essential items. Delta said it will now operate twice-daily flights between Seoul and Shanghai, add four-times weekly service between Atlanta and Seoul and...
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Russian Air Transport Company Gets U.S. Rockets To Launch Site
Friday, April 17, 2020 - 12:23pm | 360Read More...Volga-Dnepr Airlines, a Russian all-cargo carrier, has asked the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to authorize a domestic U.S. flight using its gigantic AN-124-100 cargo plane to transport an Atlas V rocket booster tank for a space mission. According to the application filed this week, the...
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Air Forwarders Want Financial Relief In Next Federal Aid Package
Friday, April 17, 2020 - 10:00am | 797Read More...After being left out of a recent multibillion-dollar federal aid package for the domestic airlines, airfreight forwarders are now asking the U.S. government for aid to be set aside for their industry in the next economic stimulus legislation. Specifically, the Airforwarders Association is...
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American Airlines, Delta Prioritize Supply Of Cargo Space
Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 1:31pm | 629Read More...Having activated their passenger aircraft to cater to shippers, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines are taking additional steps to prioritize cargo. American Airlines Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) announced Wednesday it will implement a fee for late cancellations and no-shows, effective May 1, to...
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WHO Ramps Up COVID-19 Emergency Supply Chain
Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 11:41am | 803Read More...The United Nations has established a supply chain task force to coordinate and scale up the procurement and distribution of medical equipment to countries that need it most to combat the novel coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Food Program (WFP) are leading the...
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Ocean Freight Consolidators Turn On LCL Relief Valve
Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 10:08am | 1423Read More...Ocean freight consolidators are riding a wave of less-than-containerloads (LCL) in recent months as the coronavirus pandemic leaves more freight forwarders beaching full containers. Also known as neutral non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs), these logistics services providers resell...
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WHO Builds Up COVID-19 Airlift Capacity To Help Africa
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 1:12pm | 1002Read More...Commercial cargo aircraft are criss-crossing the globe with humanitarian relief to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it is organizing flights to Africa, while other governments and private entities continue to arrange airlifts of their own. A United...
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Airlines Begin Pulling Passenger Seats To Make Room For Cargo
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 10:21am | 1325Read More...With a global shortage of air cargo space and extraordinary demand to move emergency medical supplies, some overseas passenger airlines are taking out the seats on aircraft to make more room for freight. And U.S. airlines are asking the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for permission to fly...
