NewsWeek United takes delivery of B787


UNITED Airlines has taken delivery of its initial B787 ‘Dreamliner’, the first North American carrier to receive Boeing’s most modern passen- ger aircraft. Four more B787s are


expected to be delivered to the airline before the end of the year. United has confirmed that


the new equipment will be used on routes to Amsterdam, Tokyo, Lagos, London and Shanghai. The B787 will be used to replace older, less fuel- efficient aircraft. According to Robbie


Anderson, president of United Cargo: “It is the ideal aircraft for long-range routes with lower demand. "For example, the United 767 fleet does not have the


provide consistent year-round widebody capacity,” Anderson observed. He added that Asian opera-


tors have reported solid cargo payloads of 10-15 tons per flight on the B787. The aircraft also accepts the


same cargo container configu- ration as the ‘freight-friendly’ B777, enabling easier load


Anderson: “it is the ideal aircraft for long-range routes with lower demand”


range to serve markets in India and the South Pacific. “The 787 will allow us to


right-size the capacity in the softer demand periods and


Volga-Dnepr Airlines ships fire-fighting equipment


VOLGA-DNEPR, the Rus- sian oversized and heavy cargo charter specialist, has success- fully transported two Amdac Carmichael mobile fire-fight- ing trucks from the UK to Kandahar in Afghanistan. The two units, weighing a


combined total of 30 tons, were transported from East Midlands International airport using an IL-76TD-90VD freighter chartered on behalf of Transact International – a company specialising in mili- tary and humanitarian aid shipments. Georgy Sokalov, regional sales manager at Volga Dnepr


UK, revealed: “The payload required a detailed engineering study as the fire engines' dimensions called for extreme- ly precise loading in the cargo hold of the IL-76TD-90VD.” Evgeny Venikov, senior lead


planning engineer at Volga Dnepr Airlines noted that in order to meet the required clearances for transporting the cargo on board the aircraft, certain parts of the fire trucks had to be removed and placed between the two vehicles. The payload was delivered


safely and on-time in Kanda- har, the Moscow-based carrier confirmed.


planning for shippers. n In August, United flew 194.5 million cargo ton-miles, 2.6 percent less than in the same month of 2011. Over the January - August eight-month period, the carrier flew a total of 1.7 billion cargo ton-miles, a decline of 7 percent year-on- year.


DUBAI International airport handled 190,770 tonnes of cargo in August, up 4.4 percent during the same period of 2011. Year-to-date the gateway has handled 1,481,736 tonnes of freight – a 3 percent improvement year-on-year over 2011 figures.


A CROCODILE shocked a baggage han- dler in Melbourne after he discovered it had escaped from its cage in the cargo hold of a Qantas flight from Sydney.


KENT Manston International airport has for the first time welcomed the B747-8F to its run- way. The world’s most fuel efficient freighter, operated by Cargolux, arrived from Nairobi


carrying a shipment of fresh produce and flowers.


EMIRATES SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates Airline, will carry 14 tonnes of cargo per flight when it launches four flights per week between Adelaide and Dubai on 1 November.


QATAR Airways is set to broaden its Middle Eastern footprint with the addition of scheduled flights to Najaf on 3 January 2013 – the Doha-headquartered carriers’ third destination in the Republic of Iraq. The route will be ser- viced four times per week using A320 equipment.


Frontier and Virgin America both choose WFS


FRONTIER Airlines has appointed WFS to provide above- and below-the-wing handling services for its new routes to Great Falls, Montana (GTF) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (CID), with the airline’s Embraer 190 aircraft set to operate four times a week. Virgin America also chose


WFS when it started services to Washington Reagan


1 October 2012


National (DCA) from San Francisco, forging the first cooperation between Virgin America and WFS. Glenn A Rutkowski, senior


vice president, Passenger Ter- minal Services North America for WFS, said: “We have a strong reputation for provid- ing the price competitiveness airlines need alongside quality of service.”


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