Amsterdam-based GSSA, Kales Airline Services, has gained Alaska Airlines and its group member, Hawaiian Airlines, as a new client. The Seattle-headquartered carrier (IATA code: AS) is the 6th largest U.S. airline and is about to serve transatlantic routes for...
Parent company, ANA Holdings has merged its separate freight units: Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA), NCA Japan (NCAJ), and ANA Cargo (ACX), consolidating them as single entity to enhance ANA Group’s air cargo capabilities. The decision became effective on 01APR26,...
There are celebrations happening in every United Airlines office around the globe, today, 06APR26. Why? Because today is the day that the first ever flight took place, 100 years ago, of an enterprise that would soon develop into one...
In a surprising move, IATA CEO, Willie Walsh is leaving the comfortable role as helmsman of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to assume the challenging position as CEO of Indian budget airline, IndiGo. He takes over from IndiGo’s...
The two airlines have announced that they are offering joint cargo services on two intercontinental routes: Luxembourg–Narita and Narita–Chicago. Both routes will be served twice weekly starting 01APR26. The trans-Pacific route will be operated by cargo aircraft from the...
The Netherland’s Council of State has overturned a former decision to downsize flight numbers at Amsterdam Airport due to inadequate justification. The vote annuls the former decision made by Barry Madlener, the minister responsible for aviation in the previous...
LATAM Cargo has consolidated its leadership role on Europe-South America routes, achieving a 30% market share despite aggressive cut-throat competition. Currently, the carrier operates approximately 90 weekly passenger (PAX) flights offering 1,300 tons of cargo capacity in the aircraft’s lower...
Sometimes, it’s a matter of more than half-a-million little mirror tiles bringing on the shine – and its value is in its rarity rather than any carats. As in the case of United Cargo’s recent and highly unusual Special...
The contrast could hardly be greater. While the airspace over the Middle East is currently largely closed due to the war in Iran, it is reopening in Venezuela. Due to a U.S. blockade, the Latin American country had been...
Turkish Airlines closed the 2025 financial year with an operating profit of USD 2.2 billion. Its traffic and sales figures underscore the airline’s claim of being one of the world’s leading carriers. They were presented last Thursday (05MAR26) at...
Driven by positive annual figures, the Frankfurt-based cargo airline managed to join the club of the leading top five global air freight carriers. This ranking is confirmed by business data cited in its annual balance sheet presented by Lufthansa...
Following the coordinated Israeli-U.S. air strikes on Iran, international airlines reacted within minutes by scrapping air services to the region or canceling overflights on routes between Europe and the Far East. Thousands of passengers stranded and masses of air...
The Star Alliance Partner airlines signed a Memorandum of Understanding as starting point for a comprehensive Joint Business Agreement. This will include the airlines of the Lufthansa Group, Air India and Air India Express.However, the group’s air cargo daughter,...
The first of January, this year, saw Pauline Dhillon (PD), step into the role of Chief Executive Officer of Cargojet. For over two decades, Dhillon has contributed to Cargojet’s journey – from its inception, through to it becoming Canada’s...
South America’s flower business hits a climax every February – no surprise there, given that it is the month wherein Valentine’s Day is celebrated. This year’s Valentine’s Day flower air cargo peak from Latin America to North America exemplified...
It’s a well-known saying that those who are declared dead live longer. This applies to the Venezuelan airline, Transcarga International Airways (TIA), which is about to be revived. After it bit the dust in OCT23, it recently regained its...
Aviation in Africa is on the rise, at least in some of the continent’s 54 countries. However, the willingness of some governments to release withheld funds by returning them to their proprietors, passenger and cargo airlines, is in decline....
Following the successful completion of IATA’s CEIV Pharma certification process for routes between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean last fall, the cargo division of the Spanish carrier, Air Europa Cargo (UX), obtained the same approval for its Madrid-Barajas...
With 2026, United Airlines is proudly kicking off its centenary year. Very few carriers can look back on 100 years of operation – and when your airline company happens to have the world’s biggest fleet and largest workforce, then...
The heavily indebted Volga-Dnepr Group is to be taken over by the EAS Group (Evraz Avia Service LLC) during the course of Q1, 2026. It is a rescue plan to stabilize Russia’s largest cargo conglomerate. Volga-Dnepr became one of...
The bride, TAP, is in a comfortable position: three attractive suitors are courting her. They are Air France-KLM, Lufthansa, and IAG. Following the takeover of SAS by Air France-KLM, the purchase of Italy’s ITA by Lufthansa, and the announced...
The Latvian Ministry of Transport has launched an extraordinary financial compliance assessment of the airline. At the same time, criminal investigations are reportedly being conducted against SmartLynx management who are on suspicion of repeated fraud.
On 25NOV25, the Latvian carrier,...
Both carriers embark on a new strategic cooperation to enhance customer value. This will be achieved by jointly creating operational synergies and upping commercial activities. The carrier’s electronic booking system for air freight is also to be unified.
A key...
After Air France-KLM had expressed their interest in TAP Portugal on 19NOV25, Lufthansa followed suit a day after, by throwing its hat into the ring. This means that there will be a showdown between the two heavyweights of European...
Regarding this report published on October 19, 2025, the press department of Lufthansa Cargo has asked us to correct various statements contained therein by correcting and clarifying statements. We hereby comply with this request.
The statement that Lufthansa Cargo operates...
