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IAG Cargo is pulling out of the freighter market in a major strategic shiſt. It will instead purchase capacity from Qatar Airways on the key Hong Kong- London route, beginning on May 1. A 12-year
agreement with
Global Supply Systems (GSS) under which IAG Cargo latterly wet-leased three Boeing 747-8 freighters will formally terminate on March 31. GSS has dry-leased the freighters from Atlas Air as a means of securing a UK air operator’s
was the market?” Gunning was speaking in the
week he was appointed to the IAG management committee, having previously reported into the director of stategy. He said this
reaffirmed the importance
the group attached to its cargo business. Under its commercial
certificate. Steve
Gunning, CEO of IAG Cargo, said that in practice, the agreement would “run down” over April to provide continuity for customers. Gunning would not specify
what load factors IAG Cargo has been achieving on its freighter services, but said the deal with Qatar Airways resulted from “strategic thinking on what was the way forward. What were the future opportunities and where
agreement with Qatar Airways, IAG Cargo will take 80% of space on the carrier’s five weekly Boeing 777 freighters on the London-Hong Kong trade lane, equating to 400 tonnes of capacity. This would leave capacity
almost unchanged, claimed Dave Shepherd, IAG Cargo’s global head of sales. IAG Cargo currently operates
the route six times per week with the 747-8Fs, which can accommodate 120-125 tonnes. However, Hong Kong-originating traffic fills only part of these aircraſt, which call at either Dhaka,
A new US giant is born
Two of the largest US air carriers have merged, with the completion of the deal between AMR Corporation – owners of American Airways - and US Airways Group. The
new American Airlines
will have a network of nearly 6,700 daily flights to more than 330 destinations in more than 50 countries and over 100,000 employees worldwide. Under the deal, US Airways will exit the Star Alliance on 30 March 2014 and will join oneworld. In a letter to customers, the new
carrier’s cargo president, Jim Butler (right) said that for the time being the two carriers will continue to operate as two separate airlines.”For the next several months, it will be business as usual for everyone with no changes to our operations. This complex integration is expected to
Train from Spain takes high-speed route
DB Schenker Rail (UK) has introduced an additional freight services along the High Speed 1
line from the
Channel Tunnel to London, from Valencia in Spain. It will carry refrigerated containers of perishable foodstuffs and automotive
components from to Barking, East London.
DB Schenker Rail has signed an initial six-month track access contract with HS1 but is optimistic that the service will continue. As with the existing service
from Poland, use of the Continental-gauge high-speed route will allow high-capacity wagons to be used.
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last for quite some time and plans for integrating both airlines have already begun,” he explained. The cargo team had been working for quite some time to deliver a seamless transition. American Airlines’ cargo
volumes were up nearly 17% in November 2013 compared with the same month in 2012. The figures were released prior to the close of the merger.
Mumbai, Delhi or Chennai en route back to Europe. On other routes
currently
served by IAG’s freighter fleet, customers will either have to use passenger services or shop elsewhere for maindeck capacity. Three US destinations, Houston, Atlanta and Chicago, will lose freighter coverage from May, and a route from Stansted to Cologne,
Madrid and Johannesburg, returning to Europe via Nairobi, will also cease. “Some of these routes will be
served by additional passenger capacity that we have coming in, but some are over-supplied today,” Shepherd
said. “For
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March. “We operate three times a day [with passenger services]
from example,
Texas will be served three times a day by new-generation 777s and 787s - including Austin from
South Africa to Europe. Yields have suffered because of the imbalance between supply and demand. We hope customers will continue to use us but we don’t believe they will have a lack of options.” Qatar
Airways, a oneworld partner with IAG aſter joining the
alliance last October, is taking delivery of a further three B777 freighters this year. Gunning said there could be
further deals in future with Qatar Airways and other partners. Citing past agreements with JAL and Korean Air, he commented: “It’s not the first time we’ve done capacity- sharing, and we continue many of these relationships.”
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