AA EZBook EZ Peezy

     American Airlines Cargo Division announced a new online booking enhancement called EZBook, which allows greater access to premium flight capacity for small shipments of 100kgs/220 lbs and 75 cubic feet or less. The new functionality provides the customer with an automatic booking confirmation on these small shipments when utilizing the express freight product Expeditefs.
     Expeditefs shipments are 100 percent guaranteed to be flown-as-booked and can be easily tracked through the AACargo.com Web site. Electronic shipment notification is also available for the product, in addition to a range of other productivity enhancing tools that reduce transactional costs.
     “The EZBook functionality means that our customers have more access to Expeditefs capacity for small shipments,” said Joe Reedy, Vice President - AA Cargo Sales and Marketing. “This enhancement is just one more step in our efforts to improve the experience of our customers who use our online channels for their bookings.”
     For the record American Airlines Cargo says it now provides more than 6.1 billion pounds of American Airlines Cargo capacity and nearly 200,000 flights available annually.
More: www.AACargo.com.

Emirates SkyCargo Fast Tracks Hahn/Toledo

     Emirates SkyCargo told FlyingTypers that its newly launched weekly service to Toledo, Ohio from Dubai via Frankfurt Hahn and back is a great success so far.
Emirates is flying the new service with 747-400 Fs that have a capacity of 120 tons.
     The service launched in June complements Emirates’ daily German service from Hamburg to New York.
     “It’s going well,” said Christian Thiele, Emirates’ business development manager - sales and marketing guy for Germany.
     “Half the capacity is sold to Schenker, but we’re doing quite well selling the other half.
     “We’re nearly full every week, and now is not really high season in Germany,” Thiele said.
     German logistics company Schenker, is a unit of Deutsche Bahn, the national rail service.
     Thiele added that Emirates would probably eventually look toward operating another freighter on the route if it continues to prove successful.
     “The added freight connection to Toledo will substantially strengthen our flexibility and service ability in the U.S.,” said Reinhard Coldewe, Emirates German cargo manager at the start of the service last month.
     “From Toledo, we offer further ideal transport capabilities to important industry and business centers like Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Atlanta,” Coldewe said.
     Schenker, the Deutsche Bahn unit, for its part, says its new service aboard Emirates is specially tailored to the needs of customers in the electronics, automotive, mechanical engineering and garment industries.
     Emirates’ fleet includes 11 freighters and serves more than 85 destinations in 50 countries in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and the Far East, according to the company.
George Frey
Octoberfest In FRA Cargo City Süd    You walk into the office of Anne Smirr, (right) who is manager of sales for Fraport Cargo Services and right away she hands you a towel that proclaims “Alles geht” which means, “everything goes”.
   That is a good way to describe the action at Europe’s top air cargo airport and in the heat of Summer ’07 we can use that towel for sure at some point.
   Fraport, it turns out delivered a nice 2.6% increase in throughput for the first five months of this year but maybe the best news is the vote of confidence afforded to the airport by Emirates Cargo that just signed a new five-year contract for handling and office space at the airport.
   “It’s a great vote of confidence for us.
   “We are working quite closely with Emirates including handling their new Hahn/Toledo freighter service as well.
   “This year, 2007 we are celebrating our tenth year here in Cargo City Süd.”
   Later this year we are organizing “Oktoberfest” on October 17, 2007 to celebrate with our customers and business partners.
   “I am told, when FCS opened here ten years ago more than 10,000 people helped celebrate that event.
   “This year we are hoping to recreate some of that excitement.”
   New on board at FCS is Kristina Ahl,(above left) who has been named assistant to management as she assumes some of the growing demand for public relations and marketing.
   Kristina just graduated with an applied science degree from University and admits that growing up just nearby drove part of the allure of the airport.
   “I did an internship here and have been invited back.
   “The airport is an exciting place,” Kristina said.
  Boeing’s worst nightmare may have been realized as Airbus climbs off the mat and is now selling A350XWB, rival to B787 like hot cakes.
     Not only that, Germany is preparing to increase its support of EADS with a vote to ramp up funding to protect its aerospace industry expected this week.
     Leading Brazilian carrier TAM Linhas Aéreas just signed a Memorandum of Understanding for 22 A350 XWBs, as well as for four additional A330-200s. TAM was the launch customer for the A350 in Latin America when it signed a contract for ten aircraft in December 2005.
     Since then, and after a thorough evaluation of the new A350 XWB program, TAM has more than doubled its requirement for the aircraft expected to be delivered in 2012.
 

   Continuing indication that Airbus is on the move having staged almost a miracle comeback garnering orders at Paris last month, is Dubai International Capital (DIC) intent to purchase a stake in EADS, in effect a vote of confidence in the Airbus restructuring plan, the three percent purchase is valued at about €614m. ($803m).
   DIC with holdings in HSBC and other interests is now the EADS’ fifth largest investor.

     

 

 

     Maria Muller, FlyingTypers “Woman of the Year 2006” for her trailblazing, pioneer total effort at Frankfurt Hahn International Airport, lands four square as the first female general manager of an airport in Germany and in fact one of the very few ladies to command a major aerial gateway on the planet.
     “It feels good,” Maria said this week first day on the job at Flughafen Rostock-Laage Airport in Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania.
     “We have a big job to do at Rostock, but will build a new future for this important gateway with hard work and a total team effort all around.”
     Maria, who is also one of the even fewer airport managers of the world to also pilot her own aircraft can’t wait to get aloft to explore new territory.
     “Everything in good time,” she smiles.
Contact: M.Muller@rostock-airport.de