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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.

Air France group to cut more heads

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

European carrier Air France-KLM says it wants to cut its head count by 2500 to 3000 in the next two financial years.

China Southern to save US$1bn

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

China’s China Southern Airlines, the nation’s biggest airline, says it will save US$1 billion by delaying deliveries of five Airbus A380s and 13 Boeing 787s till at least 2011. It also wants to delay delivery of four Boeing 777 freighters due this year.

‘Politics’ blocks logistics centre

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

A planned joint venture at Serbia’s Nis Airport between Austrian developer EYEMAXX and British investment fund Chayton Capital has been blocked, despite building for a new cargo and logistics centre being scheduled to start this month (April).

EC sets BMI deadline

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

The European Commission has set a May 14 provisional deadline for its initial review of Germany’s Lufthansa’s intended buy of a further 50 per cent of UK carrier BMI, taking its total BMI shareholding to 80 per cent. The regulator also is reviewing Lufthansa's planned takeover of SN Airholding, the parent company of Brussels Airlines.

Vietnam Air in US$900m Airbus buy

: Latest News; Friday, 17 April 2009

Vietnam’s flag carrier Vietnam Airlines says it will initiate negotiations with planemaker Airbus for 10 A321-200 aircraft after the country's prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved a plan for the airline to buy the planes, for delivery between 2011 and 2014.