Archive for July 2021

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air cargo peak looms, Flexport warns – or here already and getting intense theloadstar.com Air cargo’s peak season will start in August – or rather, the existing peak will “get worse”, according to Flexport. A perfect storm of […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air cargo posts strongest growth since 2017 insidelogistics.ca First half-year air cargo growth reached eight percent, its strongest first half performance since 2017 Global air cargo markets showed a 9.9 percent improvement on pre-Covid-19 performance (June 2019). This […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Cargo-partner expands air cargo charter ops as demand surges aircargonews.net Freight forwarder cargo-partner is expanding its air charter network in response to rising demand and congestion in ocean and rail freight. The company said that advancing global vaccination […]

  AIR FREIGHT UPDATES United and Air Canada renew cargo focus, but AA and Delta eyes are on passengers theloadstar.com The truth about the cargo ambitions of four major North American passenger airlines can be seen in first-half results that place […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Lufthansa Cargo reduces freighter schedule as Covid pilot agreement expires aircargonews.net Lufthansa Cargo will reduce its freighter schedule by around 5% from today as an agreement with pilots over extended flying to meet Covid restrictions comes to an […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air Canada Posts Another Quarterly Loss simpleflying.com Unlike the positivity seen in the United States over the past week or so, Canadian flag carrier Air Canada has posted a loss for the second quarter of 2021. The airline’s […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Poor weather in China forces 4,500 flight cancellations theloadstar.com Some 4,500 flights out of major Chinese airports have been cancelled this week, owing to Covid lockdowns and poor weather. Zhengzhou, Chinese home of Cargolux, has seen more than […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Airbus Has No Whitetail Aircraft Left simpleflying.com Whitetail aircraft are often a worrying sign. Their ongoing existence can imply that they have been produced without a carrier in place to deploy them. Airbus had several of these at […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Canada Extends India Travel Ban Until 21st August simpleflying.com In a huge blow to thousands of travelers, Canada has extended its flight ban from India until 21st August. The decision means that the busy travel season before the […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES India’s Second-Richest Man Is Now The Country’s Largest Airport Operator forbes.com Billionaire Gautam Adani’s Adani Airport Holdings Ltd. (AAHL) took control this week of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, the second busiest airport in the country, after […]