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Trio offer to give up slots

: Latest News; Friday, 12 March 2010

UK carrier British Airways, USA-based American Airlines and Spain's Iberia have offered to give up takeoff and landing slots at London and New York airports to offset European Union antitrust worries over their planned co-operation on Atlantic routes.

Descartes files first ICS test messages

: Latest News; Friday, 12 March 2010

Network logistics firm Descartes says it has successfully filed its first Import Control System (ICS) test messages with the European Commission's Taxation and Customs Union as part of its GLN Customs Filing and Compliance services.

Lufthansa won't switch to Berlin

: Latest News; Friday, 12 March 2010

German carrier Lufthansa says Berlin isn't in the same league as UK capital London or France's Paris and therefore it doesn't intend to switch its international services from Frankfurt to Berlin's new EUR2.5 billion airport.

Full body scanners 'ineffective' - UN official

: Latest News; Friday, 12 March 2010

A senior official with the United Nations says full body scanners at airports breach individual human rights.

Cathay Pacific back to black

: Latest News; Thursday, 11 March 2010

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Group reported an attributable profit of HK$4,694 million in 2009, reversing a loss of HK$8,696 million the previous year. Turnover in 2009 fell by 22.6 per cent to HK$66,978 million.

Eurotunnel plans freight services

: Latest News; Thursday, 11 March 2010

The company that operates Europe's UK-France rail Channel Tunnel wants to introduce high-speed freight trains and also to add UK-Germany passenger services.

Aer Lingus gets okay for 670 redundancies

: Latest News; Thursday, 11 March 2010

Irish airline Aer Lingus says plans to save an annual EUR97 million have been accepted by unions representing pilots, middle management, maintenance staff and some ground staff and cabin crew - except those represented by union 'Impact'.

Deutsche loss narrows

: Latest News; Thursday, 11 March 2010

Germany's Deutsche Post DHL says its Q4 2009 loss was EUR283 million - compared to a loss of EUR3 billion in Q4 of 2008 - on revenues of EUR12.4 billion compared to EUR14 billion in the same period for 2008.

US donates scanner

: Latest News; Thursday, 11 March 2010

The Peruvian Exporters Association (Adex) says it's pleased by a new cargo scanner at Lima’s Jorge Chávez international Airport. The scanner was donated by the US embassy.