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Lufthansa Moves Cargo & Passenger To
Domodedovo Airport Summer 2008
In a flurry of news from the German flagship carrier this week, Lufthansa said it would move its cargo and passenger flights in Moscow from Sheremetyevo Airport to Domodedovo Airport starting with the Summer 2008 timetable, and that it would enter a partnership with AiRUnion, the Russian airline alliance.
     The move to the new airport, 37 kilometers, (23 miles), east of Moscow, allows Lufthansa to operate with its Star Alliance partners from the same airport. Other Star Alliance members serving Moscow are Swiss, Austrian, BMI, Singapore, Spanair and Thai, according to Lufthansa. More Click Here.
leisure's Auslaender
Wins Top Award
   Recent word that fast rising leisure cargo is forging ahead with its just announced arrangement to handle sales, service and everything air cargo for Air Asia will springboard into fast forward at the point the carrier “extends its line service into Shenzhen, China,” said leisure managing director Ralf Rainer Auslaender. More Click Here
Naresh Jets Into New York
   Entrepreneur and airline builder Naresh Goyal introduced Jet Airways new service from New York City via Brussels to Mumbai scheduled to commence August 5, at a gala Reveal inside the grand ballroom of New York’s Waldorf Astoria Wednesday July 11.
    Mr. Naresh told FlyingTypers:
    “Air cargo that currently develops about 7% will play an increasingly important role in our future. More Click Here


Summer came on waves of pleasure adding a welcome pause in the day’s occupation this past weekend at Darmstadt, Germany reordering cargo priorities to simple things like good food and music and small children under foot.
   A Saturday afternoon in an air cargo garden brought out restorative kindness and fellowship too as Christian Fink, Heide Enfield and Gabi Posniak of Lufthansa Cargo Charter hosted friends and business partners in an understated and totally personal experience.
   The party, this year dubbed 1001 Arabian Nights, has become an annual rite of the season at The Vivarium Tiergarten, a small park and zoo in Darmstadt, Germany with a remarkable collection of animals including exotic birds and other wild life (many have been born and raised at this remarkable facility) housed in a cool shady glen with old trees and natural landscaping that bring wildlife close enough to touch. More Click Here

Best Bets Meets '07
  With sun blocker in hand and the kids off somewhere aquatic, now might be a good time to think ahead to trade shows, and club meetings upcoming.
  There is a full menu of course and the choices can include anything from an excellent adventure come September 18 with IATA Cargo in Warsaw where you can learn a lot and actually get to meet some people who do business in Poland, Eastern Europe and Russia not to mention Northern Europe, . . . More Click Here
     



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. More Click Here

Protest LEJ Curfew
Eric Malitzke, GM of LEJ pictured at recent Air Cargo Europe in Munich.     

   Everything is set for the big party this Thursday (July 5) as Leipzig/Halle Airport (code: LEJ) celebrates official opening of a new intercontinental runway (3.600m length).
  The new strip enables parallel traffic complimenting the existing northern runway that measures 3.600m as well that had been . . . More Click Here

Continuing indication that Airbus is on the move having staged almost a miracle comeback garnering orders at Paris last . . . More Click Here