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Cathay cuts cargo, passenger capacity

: Latest News; Monday, 20 April 2009

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific group will reduce cargo capacity by 11 per cent and cabin capacity on Cathay Pacific flights by eight per cent and on its Dragonair unit by 13 per cent from May.

Vietnam Air signs SkyTeam agreement

: Latest News; Monday, 20 April 2009

Vietnam’s Vietnam Airlines has signed a preliminary agreement with the SkyTeam airline marketing alliance and hopes to be a full member of the organisation by Q4 2010.

More cash for trains

: Latest News; Monday, 20 April 2009

Aircargo – and airline passenger services – face more competition from railways, with China and the USA announcing high-speed rail initiatives.

It’s not just aircargo

: Latest News; Monday, 20 April 2009

US rail companies report freight shipments down 17.6 per cent for 2009 compared to the same period in 2007 and say in early April figures were down 24.5 per cent year-on-year. Railroads are considered gauges of America’s economic health because they move almost every kind of product across the country.

Snakes alive bamboozle QF

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

Qantas cargo workers are mystified over four missing snakes that escaped from a container in the hold of a Boeing 737-800.

TNT opens expanded hub in Singapore

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

Integrated express operator TNT has officially opened its expanded and remodeled regional hub at Changi Cargo Complex, Singapore.

First Australian flight for upgraded freighter

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

Volga-Dnepr has operated its first IL-76TD-90VD flight from Australia with an emergency shipment of 10-metre pipes bound for Noumea in New Caledonia.

Premium traffic down 21 per cent

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says global airlines filled 21 per cent fewer premium seats in February than in the same month a year ago, with trans-Pacific, Central American and flights between Africa and the Far East worst affected.