Air China Cargo has doubled its weekly A330-200 freighter service at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland to eight, adding four flights from Chengdu, China. Air China Cargo launched the Chengdu (CTU)-Glasgow (PIK) route Nov. 22 with a 2008-vintage A330-200P2F (903), including a stop in Stockholm (A
Atlas Air Worldwide subsidiary Titan Aviation Leasing has added the first A330-200P2F to its portfolio, after expanding into the Airbus freighter segment this year. The 2007-vintage, Trent 700-powered aircraft (832, ex-Etihad Airways) was previously managed by Altavair and had come off lease from Ai
Precision Aircraft Solutions has filed a lawsuit against Mammoth Freighters alleging that Mammoth used proprietary Precision information to create its 777 conversion program. Precision claims in the suit, which was filed Oct. 20 in the U.S. District Court in Oregon, that it learned in August that Ma
Carlos Cock, vice president of commercial operations and partner at 7Air, will join Cargo Facts LATAM 2026 for the panel discussion “Exploring the divergent narrowbody freighter segment” on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 11:15 a.m. (GMT-6).The fourth annual Cargo Facts LATAM conference will take place Feb.
United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. are working to secure enough freighters as they grapple with a ban on a pillar of their air-cargo fleets through the crucial holiday delivery season, and potentially beyond. An indefinite grounding of the workhorse MD-11 jet is in place as investigators pro
Western Global Airlines has issued a furlough notice to some of its employees, effective Nov. 22 and remaining in effect while its MD-11Fs stay grounded pending safety inspections, according to a layoff notice obtained by Cargo Facts. Western Global (WGA) Vice President of Human Resources Tom Romnio
Growing its 777F fleet, China Cargo Airlines is behind at least one of the unidentified 777Fs on Boeing’s order backlog. Photos this week from the Boeing factory in Everett, Wash. (PAE), showed a 777F bearing the carrier’s livery. Boeing’s backlog, as of Oct. 31, does not show any 777F orders identi
A new A300 freighter operator is entering the market next year. Chex Air, which has offices in Dubai and Miami, expects to begin flying an A300-600F around March 2026 to connect Africa and the Middle East with South America, Head of Operations Sebastian Bolivar says in this week’s episode of “Cargo
Emirates SkyCargo and Astral Aviation will evaluate the commercial performance of Lodd Autonomous’ hybrid vertical takeoff and landing aircraft under memorandums of understanding signed this week at the Dubai Airshow. Astral may add two of the Lodd Autonomous hybrid vertical takeoff and landing (VTO
DHL Supply Chain has opened a carbon-neutral logistics center at Leipzig/Halle Airport, expanding the German region’s role as a major European freight hub. The site, integrated into DHL’s Leipzig/Halle (LEJ) campus, is the company’s third facility in the area and is now operational, according to a N
