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Cargojet freighter aircraft knocked out of service by massive hail

Two Cargojet freighter aircraft suffered extensive damage during a hailstorm last week at Calgary International Airport in Canada, executives said during a call with analysts Wednesday to discuss second-quarter earnings.

The Aug. 5 storm that pounded the airport in Alberta with golf ball-size ice pellets also crippled 16 aircraft operated by WestJet, Canada’s second-largest passenger airline.

Cargojet (TSX: CJT) moved the two planes to its base in Hamilton, Ontario, for repairs, according to the...

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ABX pilots win back Amazon business with power of positivity

A new transportation services agreement to operate 10 Boeing 767 cargo jets for Amazon paved the way for pilots at cargo airline ABX Air over the weekend to ratify an extension of their labor contract until 2030, company officials said Tuesday.

Amazon’s assignment of planes to ABX Air was also made possible by union leaders’ more collaborative approach to jointly growing business after a history of tensions and a shortage of captains at sister airline Air Transport International, they said.

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European cargo airline Cargolux launches aerial firefighting unit

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Freighter operator Cargolux, the eighth-largest all-cargo operator by traffic, is diversifying with...

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Logistics Industry Embraces Technology To Satisfy Growing Demand

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Logistics turns to tech to meet new demand, states a Financial Times news source.

Asia’s logistics sector

Asia’s logistics sector is booming. And it is technology — whether used to map global shipping routes or plan customer deliveries — that is helping propel growth at companies large and small. From shipping groups to warehouse owners, logistics businesses have often been slow to embrace digitalisation. But global supply chain disruptions early in the pandemic...

https://mfame.guru/logistics-industry-embraces-technology-to-satisfy-growing-demand/

Logistics Industry Embraces Technology To Satisfy Growing Demand

Credit: Containership_Unsplash

Logistics turns to tech to meet new demand, states a Financial Times news source.

Asia’s logistics sector

Asia’s logistics sector is booming. And it is technology — whether used to map global shipping routes or plan customer deliveries — that is helping propel growth at companies large and small. From shipping groups to warehouse owners, logistics businesses have often been slow to embrace digitalisation. But global supply chain disruptions early in the pandemic...

https://mfame.guru/logistics-industry-embraces-technology-to-satisfy-growing-demand/

Cargo influences British Airways to use big jets on European hops

British Airways has substituted widebody passenger aircraft on more than two dozen short-haul flights in Europe normally carried out by single-aisle jets to accommodate extra demand for cargo, parent company International Airlines Group confirmed.

The airline is flying Boeing 777-200, 777-300 and 787-900 jets on certain routes from London Heathrow airport between January and April, said John Cheetham, chief commercial officer at IAG Cargo, the cargo handling division for British Airways, Iberia,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cargo-influences-british-airways-to-use-big-jets-on-european-hops

[Watch] Su-25 Belly Landing Caught On Video

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After a sparky, gear-up emergency landing at an unidentified air base, a Russian pilot need a new aircraft and perhaps a new flight suit, as reported by The Warzone.

Fighter-bomber 

The Su-25 Frogfoot attack aircraft, which has become synonymous with the air war thanks to numerous breathtaking videos of its high-speed, low-altitude missions flown over the frontlines by pilots from both sides, approaches low and slowly before using drogue chutes to skid to a stop on the runway...

https://mfame.guru/watch-su-25-belly-landing-caught-on-video/

Russian takeover of foreign-owned aircraft portends higher lease rates

A large, white Aeroflot jet taxiing at an airport

Air Lease Corp. disclosed Friday it is writing off $802.4 million for leased aircraft trapped in Russia it doesn’t expect to recover following Western sanctions against the country for the invasion of Ukraine. 

The broader significance of the impairment charge is that “lessors are going to treat country risk differently than they had in the past and will charge airlines accordingly,” Cowen equity analyst Helane Becker said in client note. “We expect lease rates to trend higher.”

So far only 32 of...

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FreightWaves Classics/Pioneers: Women made their marks on aviation history (Part 3 – the 1930s-1940s)

Olive Ann and Walter Beech look over a sea of airplanes under construction. (Photo: Textron Aviation)

International Women’s Day, a global celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women, began on March 8, 1911. Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society and has been observed annually in March in the United States since 1987.

To help celebrate Women’s History Month, FreightWaves Classics will continue to profile a number of women who made contributions to transportation during the month of March.

Women have made history...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classicspioneers-women-made-their-marks-on-aviation-history-part-3-the-1930s-1940s

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