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The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) on Tuesday reported no new orders for commercial aircraft in January for the first time in 57 years, but did announce that aircraft leasing company BBAM has signed a contract to convert three of its Boeing 737-800 jetliners into freighters. San Francisco-headquartered...

The U.S. and Kenya have updated their existing air transport agreement to add so-called seventh-freedom traffic rights for all-cargo operations. The new rights give carriers greater flexibility to serve cargo and express delivery customers more efficiently and fully opens the Kenyan air cargo...

Finding all-cargo aircraft with room to move goods from China to international customers could be difficult for manufacturers and retailers once factories there start reopening this week. With most airlines shelving passenger flights because of the coronavirus epidemic, analysts expect airfreight...

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has placed financial sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned airline Consorcio Venezolano de Industrias Aeronauticas y Servicios Aereos, S.A. (CONVIASA) for its support of the country's president, Nicolas Maduro.  The agency added...

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The ability to move goods in and out of China by air could hinge on the willingness of freighter aircraft pilots to fly into key industrial cities where the coronavirus is prevalent. All-cargo carriers are filling some of the lost capacity associated with the pull down of most international...

Forward Air (NASDAQ: FRWD) wants to be known as more than a trucking company that moves airfreight by ground. Through a series of acquisitions the past five years, the Greeneville, Tennessee, motor carrier has expanded into the intermodal drayage, final-mile delivery and expedited truckload modes...

The Federal Aviation Administration's drone remote identification rulemaking was years in the making, but the agency doesn't want to give industry and drone users extra time to comment on its proposal. The FAA issued its remote ID notice of proposed rulemaking in late December and gave the public...

United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) is the first major international airline to stop service to Hong Kong because of the coronavirus outbreak in China.  The carrier announced Tuesday afternoon that it is suspending flights to Hong Kong beginning Feb. 8. It has gradually ratcheted down its schedule in...

Passenger airlines are extending flight blackouts to China as the death toll and confirmed infections from the flu-like coronavirus continue to rise. The reduction in passenger flights means there is less capacity for cargo, but how, and when, that might translate into more business for pure...

The new trilateral strategic partnership among Virgin Atlantic, Delta Airlines (NYSE: DAL) and Air France-KLM is expected to benefit cargo customers by making it easier to do business, providing more delivery choices and improving operational efficiencies. The trans-Atlantic joint venture became...

Japanese shipping giant Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, also known as NYK Lines, recorded a $144 million extraordinary loss in its quarterly earnings because of longer-than-expected weakness in the air cargo market. NYK subsidiary Nippon Cargo Airlines operates a fleet of eight Boeing 747-8...

Hawaiian Air Cargo is adding two more inter-island freighter destinations later this month and says its long-haul cargo capacity will grow next year when it begins adding Boeing 787s to its fleet. In late 2018, Hawaiian Airlines began ATR 72 freighter flights from Honolulu to Līhu‘e Airport on...

Airbus has agreed to pay more than $3.9 billion in penalties to France, the U.K. and U.S. to settle charges stemming from a yearslong scheme to bribe officials in China and elsewhere to buy its aircraft. The penalties represent the largest ever global foreign bribery settlement. "Airbus paid...

Southwest Airlines Cargo continues to win the hearts of freight forwarders for outstanding customer service, but the airline isn't resting on its laurels. Members of the Airforwarders Association this week voted Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) the best domestic airline for the 11th year running....