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Joint venture begins with 2 Dec HND-LHR flight


ufthansa Cargo and All Nippon Airways (ANA)


have operated their first flights as part of the airlines’ joint sales of


shipments on 2 December. The first shipment was booked


via Lufthansa Cargo’s website and transported on ANA flight


route NH277 from Haneda International Airport (HND) to Heathrow Airport (LHR) on 2


December using a Boeing 777-300. Forwarder, Schenker-Seino sent the three pieces of cargo weighing 153 kilogrammes. Lufthansa says the direct flight means customers can receive shipments around 16 hours earlier than choosing a con- nection via Frankfurt (Germany). The first shipment booked through ANA’s website for Lufthansa


Cargo flight route LH8385 trans-


ported 1.8 tonnes of cargo from Narita International Airport to Frankfurt Airport using an Boeing MD-11F.


Lufthansa Cargo chairman and


chief executive officer (CEO), Peter Gerber (pictured right) says: “This cooperation marks a great step for our customers. We are looking forward to intensifying our coop- eration with ANA, which sets a further milestone in bringing the economies of Japan and Europe closer together.” ANA Cargo CEO, Akiro Okada


says: “This partnership will improve the level of service offered to customers by generating a greater selection of routings and a wider range of service options.” The joint venture means


United dips in November


UNITED Airlines has seen its cargo revenue ton miles (CRTM) drop in November to 222.2 million (357.6 million kilometres), down from October when it was 227.4 million. The November drop follows three months of rises in Au- gust September and October of 204.2 million, 207.8 million and 227.4 million, respectively. In January CRTM was 180.3 million, before rising to 182.9 million in February and 221.9 million in March. CRTM dropped in April to 194.3 million before rising again to 206.3 million in May. In June it dipped to 202.6 million before rising again in July to 212.1 million. Year-to-date CRTM was 2.2 billion, up 12.2 per cent on the same period of 2013 when it was two billion. November saw a year-on-year rise of 8.2 per cent on the same month of 2013. Every month of 2014 has seen year-on-year in- creases, with the largest rise seen in July of 29 per cent, and the smallest in April, when it was 3.4 per cent. January was up six per cent, followed by rises in February and March of 7.5 per cent and 7.8 per cent respectively. April was up 3.4 per cent, followed by increases of 5.4 per cent in May and 7.2 per cent in June. July, August, September and Oc- tober were up by 29 per cent, 25.8 per cent, 23.2 per cent and 15.8 per cent, respectively.


one daily by Lufthansa. There will be one daily service from Narita to Frankfurt supplemented by three flight routes spread over six days of the week operated by Lufthansa. There will also be a daily flight


from Kansai International Air- port to Frankfurt and a five times a week Nagoya to Frankfurt service operated by Lufthansa. Daily services from Haneda


increased services from the Japa- nese cities of Tokyo, Nagoya and Kansai to the German cities of Frankfurt, Munich and Dussel- dorf. It will also mean services to London, Paris and Vienna. It will provide two daily flights from Haneda to Frankfurt using ANA and


to Munich will be available from ANA and six times a week from Lufthansa. ANA will operate a daily services between, Narita and Dus-


seldorf, Haneda to Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport from both Narita and Haneda. Lufthansa subsidiary, Austrian Airlines will operate a six times


a week service from Narita to Vienna International Airport.


NEWSWEEK WORLDNEWS


TNT is starting a five times a week service between Liege Airport and Venice Airport Marco Polo. Flights will arrive in Venice (Italy) at 0600 hours before continuing to Ljubljana. Five times a week northbound flights from Athens will stop in Venice, leav- ing the Italian city at 2300 hours to return to Liege (Belgium).


QATAR AIRWAYS CARGO started twice-weekly services to Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos (Nigeria), then onto Ko- toba International Airport in Accra on 6 December. The airline also started flying to Guangzhou (China) thrice-weekly on 3 December. All services will use an Airbus A330 Freighter.


Europe’s $3.7 billion ATM upgrade agreed


EUROPEAN COMMISSION has approved the Single Euro- pean Sky air traffic managament ATM Research (SESAR) Deployment Alliance to coordinate and synchronise 3 bil- lion euro ($3.7 billion) worth of upgrades to the continent’s air traffic management infrastructure.


The Alliance is a cross industry partnership made up of four airline groups, operators of 25 airports and 11 air traffic control providers. It has been appointed to the Eu- ropean Commission-mandated role of SESAR deployment manager.


SESAR deployment is a key part of the European Com- mission’s Single European Sky initiative. The initiative will, it is hoped, improve efficiency, lower delays and raise envi- ronmental performance.


The SESAR deployment manager will ensure that new technologies and solutions that have already been tested and validated through the SESAR Joint Undertaking are de- livered into everyday operations across Europe, delivering benefits to both airspace users and the environment. Massimo Garbini, former chief executive officer of Italian air navigation service provider ENAV, has been appointed managing director of the SESAR Deployment Alliance. He says: “We are pleased that the Commission has selected this unique cross-industry collaboration to drive the essen- tial ATM modernisation of European airspace. The SESAR Deployment Alliance will operate initially for six-years.


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