Pétur
J. Eiríksson, Icelandair Cargo Managing Director told FlyingTypers,
the carrier has added three new destinations to its network.
This month Charlotte, NC, Jönköping
and Malmö in Sweden will be served with scheduled flights.
Charlotte and Malmö once per week and Jönköping with two
flights.
The company is also adding a sixth flight
to New York, JFK.
With this, Icelandair Cargo is enhancing connectivity
between Scandinavia and the United States through its hub at Keflavik Airport.
The flights from Jönköping, both
on Saturdays, will continue to Charlotte and New York.
The cargo consists of industrial goods.
The Malmö flights are operated from Keflavik
on Sunday evenings with inbound connections from Charlotte, New York and
Halifax.
The flight from Charlotte is arriving in Keflavik
Sunday evenings and continues to Liege in Belgium.
The Icelandair Cargo network is served with
Boeing 757-200 freighters.
Icelandair operates four aircraft with a fifth
joining the fleet by end of October.
Other destinations include Brussels, Humberside
and East Midlands.
petur.j.eiriksson@icelandair.is.
Phone: +354 5050695.
Eckhardt
Fechtner, managing director of Otto International Logistics addresses Frankfurt
Air Cargo Club (ACD) next week on Tuesday October 10.
International Logistics is part of the Otto Group—“Otto
Versand Hamburg” the world’s leading mail order house with expanding
business in Europe, America and also Asia.
Otto International Logistics developed a cross trade
system that incorporates all modes of transportation worldwide.
Mr. Fechtner says he is going to offer ACD club
members a window to view the mail order IT process that supports the highly
sensitive order processing process that among other thing discerns when
certain shipments – already printed in a catalogue – must switch
from ocean to air.
ACD meets just before the sun disappears over the
yardarm and adult beverages are in play at 4 pm. on Tuesday 10th at the
Mercure Wings Hotel in Raunheim – just west of Frankfurt Airport.
Airfreight managers around visiting are welcome
to the club.
Contact: www.aircargoclub.de
 News
from Airbus worsens.
Airbus CEO Christian Streiff now says that the
airplane builder is maybe a decade behind rival Boeing, while parent EADS
co-CEO Tom Enders keeps the gloom front page, saying that the A350 XWB
program may be scrapped altogether.
Earlier this week news that A380 will be delayed
an additional year and the company will undergo a radical restructuring
called "Power8" sent shock waves industrywide.
"It will take us about 10 years to catch
up with Boeing in terms of development and efficiency," Streiff told
Le Monde.
Meanwhile Enders told the press:
"We will discuss intensively in the next
weeks whether we have the financial and engineering resources to actually
take on this program.”
 Ryanair
launched a takeover bid for rival Aer Lingus yesterday with a hostile
€1.48 billion ($1.88 billion) bid.
"This offer represents a unique opportunity
to form one strong airline group for Ireland and for European consumers,"
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said.
He said a merger would create an airline "capable
of competing on the European and world stage against other large European
airline groups, including Lufthansa/SAS/Swiss,
Air France/KLM and BA/Iberia."
Aer Lingus Chairman John Sharman said Ryanair’s
bid is "unsolicited, wholly opportunistic and significantly undervalues
the group's businesses and attractive long-term growth potential."
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