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Mesa Airlines envisions operating 10 DHL cargo jets by 2022

An American Eagle jet on ascent through the clouds. Mesa Airlines operates the jets and will soon fly cargo jets for DHL.

Mesa Airlines, a regional passenger airline, expects its cargo business with DHL Express to quickly grow and become profitable by proving it can meet linehaul delivery requirements for the burgeoning e-commerce sector, Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein said Monday.

Mesa (NASDAQ: MESA), the first regional airline in the U.S. to enter the narrow-body cargo business, could be operating 10 aircraft for the express delivery company within 18 months if plans proceed as expected, he said.

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Virus slows airlines from adding capacity, airfreight volatility increases

Pallets of freight offloaded an Emirates 777 passenger plane onto a hydraulic lift. The use of passenger planes as freighters is dictated by strong market economics.

The outlook for economic recovery and better health for airlines is more pessimistic and that’s bad news for manufacturers and other shippers seeing input costs rise due to higher transport prices in the COVID era.

Passenger airlines are reporting huge second-quarter losses, terminating employees and slowing the reintroduction of flights as the coronavirus flares up. Fewer flights means fewer transport options for shippers already facing a supply shortage, but full-freighter operators – and freig...

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IATA outlook for airline industry recovery slides to 2024

A cargo tug drops off a load next to a Cathay Pacific jet. The air cargo business in June was down a fifth from last year's level.

The International Air Transport Association on Tuesday pushed back by a year its estimate for the airline industry to fully recover from the novel coronavirus and said the air cargo market’s modest improvement in June still lagged growth in manufacturing output and trade.

The airline group downgraded its forecast for global passenger traffic and revenues, saying it will not return to last year’s levels until 2024 because a COVID-19 resurgence in several countries, depressed corporate travel and...

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Freighter influx can’t offset cargo decline at Schiphol airport

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam witnessed a nearly 50% rise in freight flights for the first half of the year, but this traffic was not enough to counter the dramatic drop in cargo transported in the bellies of passenger planes grounded by coronavirus travel restrictions.

Despite a 12.4% increase in all-cargo volume to 463,679 tons, the Amsterdam airport said Monday that cargo throughput had fallen 14.5% because passenger traffic virtually disappeared in March when COVID-19 surged in Europe. The...

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