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Floods hit Thai exports

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

Air freight from Thailand is tipped to drop in the short term as factories struggle to get back to full production following the country's floods.

UK exporters in rule switch row

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

British exporters say changes to air cargo security rules in December will place them at a competitive disadvantage when the UK's Department for Transport abolishes the 'account consignor scheme', that allows logistics groups to accept air cargo consignments from self-certified shippers.

Lufthansa close to Bmi sale strategy

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

German airline Lufthansa looks set to dispose of its loss-making UK-based BMI subsidiary, with the carrier's London Heathrow slots most likely to go to the British Airways/Iberia parent IAG and planes and other assets sold off piecemeal to other small European airlines.

Virgin adds business class on key routes

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

Virgin Australia has started to sell business class on its B737 'triangle' routes linking Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, for travel from 18 January 2012.

Hainan cuts Sydney service

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

China's Hainan Airlines from February reportedly will cancel the Hangzhou-Shenzhen-Sydney service that launched with three weekly frequencies in January this year but later scaled back to twice per week.

ACT now MyCargo

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

Hong Kong-based Bravia Capital and Hainan Airlines' parent HNA Group have acquired Istanbul, Turkey-based all-cargo carrier ACT Airlines, which now will trade as MyCargo Airlines.

LaTam names management ahead of merger

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

Chilean flag-carrier Lan and Brazil's Tam have made senior management changes ahead of their planned merger.

KLM adds Latin American ports

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

Possibly anticipating pressure from European competitor IAG - which reportedly is keen to purchase TAP Portugal for its strength between Europe and Latin America - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has added four destinations to its flight network: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Havana and Punta Cana.

Guilty verdict for cargo airline mogul

: Latest News; Thursday, 03 November 2011

Viktor Bout, the serial owner and operator of cargo airlines, has lost the right to ‘alleged’ with regards some of his fleets’ shadowy payloads. As well as military-grade arms, on which he was tried, these have been rumoured to include drugs, blood diamonds and strategic electronics.