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Expeditors reports profit boost

: Latest News; Friday, 07 May 2010

Global logistics company Expeditors International has reported a three per cent year-over-year increase in profit for the first quarter.

BMI to cut UK domestic services

: Latest News; Friday, 07 May 2010

Lufthansa-owned BMI British Midland is to cut some domestic UK flights from London Heathrow airport after it posted a GBP38 million Q1 2010 operating loss.

Freighter fleets to stay mean and clean?

: Latest News; Friday, 07 May 2010

Future overcapacity in the air freight sector may be limited by a lack of available capital and cost-driven decisions by airlines to permanently remove inefficient metal from fleets.

Ash fallout may extend to ETS payments

: Latest News; Friday, 07 May 2010

Europe's airlines - already lobbying to avoid inclusion in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) - could be hit with higher costs to buy emissions certificates because of the way the EU has structured the ETS.

US carriers ancillary fees up 42 per cent

: Latest News; Friday, 07 May 2010

US-based airlines made US$7.8 billion in revenues from ancillary fees in 2009, up 42 per cent from a year earlier, according to figures airlines reported to the country's Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics department.

No ash cash for European airlines?

: Latest News; Friday, 07 May 2010

The European Commission is unlikely to pay airlines compensation for losses suffered because of the recent volcanic ash eruption in Iceland.

US charges alleged SUV bomber

: Latest News; Friday, 07 May 2010

American authorities have pulled a taxiing plane off the runway at New York's Kennedy airport to arrest passenger Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized US citizen born in Pakistan.