Archive for July 2021 - page 2

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES How Low-Cost Carriers Can Thrive In The New Climate simpleflying.com The pandemic shook the aviation industry from top to bottom. It’s well-publicized that airlines of all sizes have suffered severely with their operations and finances since early last […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Teething problems in the US for new cargo screening requirements aircargonews.net Air cargo is facing delays in the US after stricter screening requirements were implemented for freighter shipments at the start of the month. New International Civil Aviation […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air cargo gains from rising prices in ocean shipping aircargonews.net High ocean freight rates caused by service disruption is helping push forwarders and shippers to use airfreight. In its latest market summary, airline association IATA said that air […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Vietnam Airlines Brings Back More International Routes In Preparation For Reopening simpleflying.com Vietnam Airlines is resuming more international routes as the airline starts preparing for the reopening of the country. While the airline has been operating some international […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Construction work at Dhaka Airport causing air cargo chaos as rates soar theloadstar.com Air freight shippers in “dysfunctional” Bangladesh are facing severe congestion and rate hikes. It follows a perfect storm of modal shift from sea freight, rising […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES IATA: Volumes outperform pre-Covid levels, but pace slows in May aircargonews.net IATA has reported in its latest market analysis that air cargo volumes in May continued to outperform pre-Covid (2019) levels – although the pace in demand in […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Port-au-Prince Airport Closed Following President’s Assassination simpleflying.com Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Haiti’s main airport in the capital Port-au-Prince, has been closed in the aftermath of an attack on the Haitian President, Jovenel Moïse. The President was assassinated in […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air cargo recovery back on track airacargoweek.com After May’s subdued performance, global air cargo resumed its ‘long and winding road’ to Covid recovery in June with a 1% growth in demand versus the same month of 2019, as […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Porter Airlines Confident It Will Finally Return In September simpleflying.com After several false starts, Canada’s Porter Airlines is now targeting a September flight resumption date. Porter Airlines suspended its flights in March 2020. Since then, 11 tentative restart […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Air cargo rates cool in June for summer slowdown aircargonews.net Air cargo rates settled down in June as the industry entered a seasonal slowdown in demand, but airlines and forwarders appear to be expecting a busy peak season. […]