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JAPAN AIRLINES (JAL) has restructured, with each department newly classified as a profit generating unit – including the airline’s cargo and mail division – or as a business support unit. Each new department is responsible for its own operations and results.


BOEING HAS DELIVERED its 900th B777 aircraft, a B777-200LR that is the first of five B777s ordered by Ethiopian Airlines in 2009.


HAWAIIAN AIRLINES took delivery of its third A330- 200 earlier this month. November has also seen the carrier launch daily flights between its Honolulu hub and Tokyo-Haneda airport.


RUSSIA’S Transaero Airlines reports a total of 31,936 tons of cargo carried for the first 10 months of the year, a 40.1 percent increase on the same period of 2009.


SAFI AIRWAYS, the Afghan airline headquartered in Kabul and Dubai, says it has been hit hard by the recent EUdecision to ban all Afghan-registered aircraft fromits airspace. Because since 23November


it has not been permitted to operate its own aircraft into the country, Safi is using wet- leased B757 aircraft from a Spanish carrier on the services it offers from Frankfurt into Kabul. According to the airline’s


CEO, Werner Borchert: “What makes this ban espe- cially hard for us is the fact that the EU Commission has on several occasions confirmed


that it does not see a safety risk in Safi’s operations.” To resume the Frankfurt ser-


vice with its own aircraft as quickly as possible, Safi has notified the EU Commission that it is “currently in discus- sions to acquire a European airline”. It can then re-register its own aircraft and so not be restricted by theEU’s blacklist- ing of Afghanistan-based carriers. “Operating Safi Airways as


a European airline is not such a major step for us,” Borchert explained. “We have always operated


our services in accordance with EU standards and the Safi


Group already has European subsidiaries. Our aircraft are maintained by Lufthansa Tech- nik ... and we employ mainly European pilots,managers and technical specialists,” he added.


Safi offers scheduled and


charter services, also providing cargo space on its flights. It maintains connections


between the cities of Frankfurt, Dubai and Kabul.


 Singapore Airlines


Arrivals & Departures says


BEY SOO KHIANG will leave his position of senior executive vice president for marketing and corporate ser- vices on 28 February next year.


 TOM MCGILL (pictured) has been named director, busi- ness development for Priority Freight, a logistics services provider active in the European time-criticalmarket.


 Seattle-based logistics ser- vices


provider Lynden


International has named HANS SCHENK director of route development for Latin America. He will be based in Miami.


 BRUNO GEHRIG has been appointed chairman of Lufthansa Group member Swiss International Air Lines.


 BRETT HART has been appointed general counsel by


EMIRATES SkyCargo, the air freight division ofDubai-based Emirates Airline, has helped deliver a neglected chimpanzee rescued by charity organisation Animals Lebanon to a new home in São Paulo. The carrier recently added


a weekly B747-400 freighter service betweenDubai and São


United Continental Holdings, parent company of the merg- ing United Airlines and Continental Airlines.


 GERALD WEBER, a member of the Airbus execu- tive committee inToulouse and head of Airbus operations in Hamburg, is to leave the Euro- pean aircraft manufacturer at the end of March next year. A successor will be appointed in early 2011.


Paulo’s Viracopos International airport. “Obviously,


 BROCK FRIESEN, chief operating officer at Air Malta has been placed on ‘long leave’ with immediate effect, as the carrier seeks to restructure its business.


 The International Air


Transport Association (IATA) has


appointed CARLOS


EBNER country director for Brazil. Based in São Paulo, he will take up his new position on 1 December.


 CargoAirport ServicesUSA (CAS), the New York JFK- based freight handler, has named STEVE CRESCENTI chief operating officer, in a move effective immediately.


 AYSHA AL HAMILI, the UAE’s permanent representa- tive on the council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), has been elected vice president of the council for 2010-11.


SkyCargo flies rescued chimp to new home in Brazil transporting


animals requires the highest degree of care and special han- dling,” said Dave Gould, Emirates senior vice president cargo operations worldwide. “An operation like this can only go to plan with nothing


less than total co-operation fromeveryone involved – from the team at Animals Lebanon to the captain of the aircraft to Customs authorities to the cargo handlers,” he noted. The 12-year-old animal is


understood to be now settling in to a newlife at a sanctuary in Curitiba.


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