Latest one liner from Bangkok is that the view from the Air Traffic Control Tower at just opened Suvarnabhumi International Airport, now the world's tallest, is so high up at 132 meters (436 feet) – “you cannot see anything on the ground.”
  Whatever the long or short-term view, the opening of a great airport today proves that nothing including a recent coup gets in the way of business. The “soft” celebration of a new aerial gateway that cost $3 billion began with the arrival of LH 8442, an all-cargo flight from Frankfurt at 0:302 hrs this ... For More Click Here

Inter Airport Spotlights China Growth
  Mainland China now boasts the world's second largest total of departing passengers... For More Click Here
Uplift Charter Not Just Germany
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Lufthansa Cargo Charter Expands
Lufthansa Cargo Charter Agency (LCCA) achieved its best ever financial performance in 2005.
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Taking TIACA Calgary Farther
 At Calgary last week as The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) held its 22nd gathering, air cargo leaders from around the world arrived armed with hour by hour appointments and chock ‘o block agendas, driven by ultra tight schedules a long way from home set up inside blackberries or jotted down on the TIACA program. For More Click Here

Calgary Had The Cowboys So Here Come The Indians

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The Ball Has Been Passed To Jens Tubbesing

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DNATA Ground Handling Pioneer 
Ismail Ali Albanna is executive vice president of Dnata.
     In fact, he has been an integral part of the Dnata management team for more than 36 years.
     “We are in Calgary to show our worldview and explain that our
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Big Noise From American
  Dave Brooks is standing in the back of a big banquet room in Calgary as the Malaysian Airlines Cargo evening kicked off a TIACA fest with some dancers, buffet dinner and lots of music.. For More Click Here

 

 
Crafting An Air Cargo Enterprise
 Etihad Cargo vice president Ingo Roessler knows about air cargo because he has been educated all his life in transportation.
     Lessons learned from 22 years at Lufthansa “doing all the jobs,” and later at the German railroad, and also as a GSA have turned this . . . For More Click Here.		 Two Beauties Picture two stalwarts that think nothing is impossible and that would have to be SN Brussels Airlines CSM Guy Hardy (left) and Dave Sharma SN cargo manager North America. . . . For More Click Here.
View From The Bridge
 Upstairs inside the big double deck Emirates SkyCargo display is too cool for school.
     We are in the nose loading area of a freighter looking up at the sky . . . For More Click Here.		 Getting It Named Right
 Two things you don’t want to do.
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DXB Readies Mega Cargo
In Dubai, UAE where they seem to do everything high, wide and handsome these days one area that has needed some immediate attention and is actually behind the curve sort of, is the cargo area handling set up.
Driven by overwhelming demand facilities that a few years ago looked ample have quickly become maxed out.
     Yes, there is a new airport or rather airport universe building at
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F-13 From Canada To Berlin  
Last week as the world over felt once again the pain reflected in images of a destroyed World Trade Center in New York City, there were also expressions of grief and many messages of hope.
     When we saw this picture we were taken aback.
     A cargo shipment sitting on a skid at FRA is a simple every day thing.
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Boeing that sells the airplanes said the industry would grow 6.1% annual average during the next 20 years