Tag: Air Transport

UPS Airlines is retiring its fleet of 727s

Posted by | Mar 25, 2007 | |

UPS Airlines was founded in 1988 with seven leased Boeing 727s, and for the next decade the plane remained the backbone of the shipping giant’s growing fleet.
But by August, UPS will fly the last of its 16 remaining 727s to the New Mexico desert, where they’ll be stored.
The planes, built from the early 1960s until August 1984, no longer fit UPS’ needs, spokesman Mark Giuffre said.
UPS has placed several orders for new planes over the past year or two, including 27 Boeing 767-300ER freighters announced last month.
The freighters are to be delivered between 2009 and 2012.
The company also has firm commitments to buy 10 Boeing 747-400 jets to be delivered by next year.

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Lufthansa Cargo summer schedules: More frequencies and new destinations

Posted by | Mar 21, 2007 | |

Lufthansa Cargo is increasing its freighter frequencies to Dallas, Sao Paulo and Shanghai in the summer timetable. New destinations in the summer flight schedules are Lahore and a direct connection from Cologne through East Midlands (UK) to Wilmington (USA). Cargo customers will also benefit from changes bearing on airfreight in Lufthansa passenger services.

In the freighter timetable, Lufthansa Cargo is raising frequencies to Dallas from two to thrice weekly. Sao Paulo will be served by six flights weekly from Frankfurt. Frequencies to Shanghai will be increased from eight to nine weekly. Changes are also forthcoming in traffic days to Los Angeles. In the summer flight schedules, Los Angeles will be served twice weekly – on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Lufthansa Cargo is, moreover, operating scheduled flights in summer to and from Lahore in Pakistan. These services will be laid on ex Frankfurt, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in combination with Bangkok. New in the timetable is a direct connection from Cologne through East Midlands to Wilmington. This service will be operated within the framework of the existing intercontinental joint venture with DHL.

The summer timetable is valid from 25 March to 27 October 2007.

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EGL receives proposal from Apollo Management L.P.

Posted by | Mar 20, 2007 | |

EGL, Inc. announced that the Special Committee of its Board of Directors has received a written proposal, dated March 19, 2007 from Apollo Management L.P. expressing its interest in the acquisition of EGL, Inc. for USD 40.00 per share, subject to certain conditions, including expedited confirmatory due diligence. The Special Committee determined that, under EGL’s Merger Agreement with an affiliate of James R. Crane, Apollo’s proposal is an alternative proposal. Accordingly, the Special Committee has also informed the Crane Affiliate of the existence of the proposal, and has made arrangements so that Apollo may conduct its due diligence investigation with respect to its proposal.

The Special Committee cautions that there can be no assurance that Apollo or another third party will make a firm offer, or that the terms of any such offer received will be a superior proposal or will be consummated.

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FKI Logistex wins contract from Chronopost in France

Posted by | Mar 16, 2007 | |

FKI Logistex announced that it has won a contract to supply Chronopost International with a complete tilt-tray sortation system for the company’s new 11,000 square-meter (118,000 square-foot) parcel hub in Chilly-Mazarin, near Paris, France. Chronopost, a subsidiary of the La Poste Group, is building the new hub to support an ambitious three-year plan to redesign its entire transportation network.

Chronopost chose the FKI Logistex sortation system for its market-leading ergonomic and safety features and its ability to handle the hub’s high throughput levels. The Chilly-Mazarin hub is designed to move a total of 30,000 parcels per hour and will process nearly 60 percent of Chronopost’s French freight.

The integrated FKI Logistex sortation system at the Chilly-Mazarin hub includes FKI Logistex S-3000E tilt-tray sorters, inductions and chutes, and more than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) of FKI Logistex belt conveyor, all controlled by an FKI Logistex controls system.

The Chilly-Mazarin hub is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of 2007.

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Mistral Air expands fleet

Posted by | Mar 9, 2007 | |

Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane’s airline Mistral Air will expand its fleet with three new Boeing 737-300 Quick Change aircraft and plans to start transporting passengers on charter flights.
The new aircraft are equipped to allow a quick change from cargo to passenger transport configuration, thanks to a system of rails. In 40 minutes, the fuselage’s cargo containers can be removed and replaced by passenger seats.
Thanks to the Quick Change system, Mistral Air can double its flight capacity, by exploiting the night time to transport cargo and the daytime and weekends to transport passengers on charter flights.
The Boeing 737-300 can transport up to 145 passengers to destinations such as Spain, the Canary Islands, Greece, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. The hubs of Mistral Air’s fleet will be based at Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino and Palermo airports.
Mistral Air’s industrial plan targets for the next five years a total revenue of 200 mln euro (USD261.8 mln), with an increase by 150 mln euro (USD196.4 mln) from the current revenue.
The immediate target of the airline is to transport 210,000 passengers in 2007 and to achieve a total passenger traffic of 1.0 million in the next four years.

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