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Archive for the ‘Airlines’ Category

Boeing predicts air cargo will triple in next 20 years

By Splatty • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: Air Cargo, Airlines

Although cargo traffic was anemic during the month of June according to a report by IATA, Boeing remains bullish on the future of global cargo. In Boeing’s recent “2008 Current Market Outlook Report”, Boeing anticipates that cargo will triple over the next 20 years. A 5.8 percent annual cargo growth rate is predicted [...]



Airline struggles and declining imports at the Port of Oakland lead to job cuts

By SwizStick • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Airlines, QuickNews

In today’s SF Chronicle:
Most of the reductions will be made by reining in the port’s capital improvement program, such as suspending plans to build a third terminal at Oakland International Airport. The airport soon will have lost six carriers this year as Aloha, ATA and Skybus all went bankrupt and Continental, American and Taca [...]



World’s Busiest Airports

By Splatty • Jul 30th, 2008 • Category: Air Cargo, Airlines

The Airports Council International has just released their annual 2007 World Airport Traffic Report which ranks the world’s busiest airports. According to the report worldwide airports in 2007 welcomed a record of 4.8 billion passengers.
The world’s busiest airport for passengers remained the Atlanta airport handling 89 million passengers. Second was Chicago’s O’Hare (76m), and [...]



Boeing 777 Freighter: Successful first flight

By SwizStick • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Air Cargo, Airlines

Via Air Cargo News:
“The 777 Freighter completed the scheduled three-hour inaugural flight with no airplane performance-related issues,” said Dennis O’Donoghue, vice-president of flight operations, test & validation. “The only issue was a data-communication problem between the airplane and the telemetry room at Boeing field.”
Boeing will identify and fix the problem to resume the flight [...]