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AIRBRIDGECARGO STARTS ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR WITH A RECORD START TO 2014
AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest cargo airline, has commenced its 10th anniversary year with the strongest first quarter in its history, with tonnage up nine per cent in Q1 to 86,500 tonnes.
ABC says its growth reflects market improvements in Russia, Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific as well as the success of its own sales activities. Freight ton-kilometres in the first three months of 2014 rose by 13%, far exceeding the industry average of 4%
growth in the months of January and February.
Load factor for Q1 was 71%, again considerably higher than the industry average.
Continuing its network growth in the first three months of 2014, ABC added Dallas, Leipzig and Malmo as new on-line destinations and increased its frequencies to and from Chicago. The additional operations strengthen ABC’s position in the European and North American air cargo markets. By adding new destinations and improving connectivity with its Moscow hub, ABC is able to offer an increased choice of routes and connections for its international customers.
The airline’s continued focus on improving its performance levels led to further gains in Q1, increasing its Delivered-As-Promised performance to 78%.
AirBridgeCargo celebrated the 10th CONGRATULATIONS TO AIR CHARTER SERVICE
Congratulations to our friends at Air Charter Service on winning the Air Cargo News ‘Charter Broker of the Year’ award at the prestigious Cargo Airline of the Year Awards held in London in April.
The award is given to the organisation that an Air Cargo News select panel deems most worthy over the past 12 months.
ACS Chairman and Founder, Chris Leach, was presented with the award by Des Vertannes (right), Head of Cargo at IATA at the event, attended by some 500 industry leaders from across the globe.
Chris said: “We are very proud and honoured to have received this prestigious award and to achieve such recognition by the panel, and within the industry as a whole, is the culmination of Air Charter Service’s hard work over the
past 12 months and, indeed, the past 24 years.”
In 2013 Air Charter Service arranged almost 7,500 aircraft charters, transporting more than 30 million kilos of cargo.
Well done to the ACS team.
“ACS has always been among the top 10 customers of Volga-Dnepr Airlines since our early days, providing valued commercial support to the Volga-Dnepr Group, most notable Volga-Dnepr Airlines, Ruslan International and Atran Airlines,” said Dennis Gliznoutsa.
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anniversary of its first commercial flight on 23rd April 2014. Its maiden flight in 2004 was between Moscow’s Domodedovo airport and Beijing. ABC started as a Volga-Dnepr Group project and over its subsequent 10-year journey has earned its place among the world’s major international cargo airlines.
When Volga-Dnepr Group launched ABC in 2004, it was the first Russian all-cargo scheduled airline. In those early days the airline operated a single B747-200 and served five destinations but now ABC is proud to operate a fleet of 12 Boeing 747 freighters (5 Boeing 747-8 and 7 Boeing 747-400), one of the youngest and most modern fleets in the air cargo industry, and serves 23 on-line destinations all over the world. Its route network connects the largest cargo flows on Asia-Russia-Europe-USA tradelanes. By optimising its route network ABC offers its customers freight deliveries within 48 hours on almost all of its routes, an offer considered highly attractive by clients all over the world.
In 2013, AirBridgeCargo Airlines carried 340,000 tonnes and flew 2,609,000 FTKs, achieving an average load factor of 72%, well above the industry average. ABC is recognised as the air cargo leader in the Russian market with a market share of over 30% on major routes into Russia.
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