Brisbane West Wellcamp will have a regular cargo link with Asia from November when Cathay Pacific adds the Southern Queensland airport to its Australian freighter network. The start of the once weekly service comes a year after Cathay operated a one-off freighter flight to Wellcamp on November 23 2015 and is yet another step forward
Qantas will carry Australia Post’s international parcels for the next five years under a new contract. The extension of the pair’s previous agreement was announced on Friday. Qantas Freight chief executive Gareth Evans said it was a “substantial contract to secure”. “We have transformed Qantas Freight to deliver flexible and efficient operations for the changing
Virgin Australia has commenced its cargo operations with dedicated freighter aircraft ferrying parcels, food, documents and machinery for its major customer TNT and other clients. The airline’s cargo business was launched in July 2015, when its eight-year contract with Toll ended and was not renewed. As a result, the selling and managing of the belly
Air freight volumes went backwards in May as economic jitters and political uncertainty stymied efforts to boost global trade and excess capacity pressured yields, new figures show. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said freight tonne kilometres (FTK) fell 0.9 per cent in May, compared with the prior corresponding period. And with capacity, measured by
Qantas says it will add Dallas/Fort Worth to its dedicated Boeing 747-400F freighter network from June 9. The 747 freighters, which are operated by Atlas on behalf of Qantas, will stop in Dallas/Fort Worth every Thursday morning as part of a triangular routing from Australia to China and the US. Qantas, which holds cargo traffic rights from the
In the music industry the term is a ‘stadium-filler’, the ability of a performer or band to fill a large sports stadium with fans for a concert. The world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, certainly proved itself to be a stadium-filler when an estimated 20,000 people lined the fence at Perth Airport to see it touch down
