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Swiss Air Lines Cleared For More Types Of Cabin Cargo

WIL BALDWIN August 8, 2020

Swiss International Air Lines is carrying a greater variety of cargo in passenger cabins after four months of only being allowed to use the upper deck for shipments of COVID-19-related medical supplies. Swiss Air Lines'…

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Freighters To The Rescue: Korean Air Posts Q2 Profit

WIL BALDWIN August 8, 2020

Korean Air leveraged its cargo operation to turn a profit in the second quarter when nearly every other passenger airline has reported enormous losses after COVID-19 travel restrictions brought most flight operations to a standstill. …

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Cargo Airline Cashing in on Junk-Bond Boom

WIL BALDWIN August 4, 2020

At a little-known cargo airline that handles shipments for United Parcel Service Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., business is booming. With passenger carriers forced to cut most of their freight capacity during the pandemic, seven-year-old Western…

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DHL Express Increases Capacity with Boeing Converted Freighters

WIL BALDWIN July 22, 2020

DHL Express and Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced that it will add four 767-300 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF) as part of the logistics company’s efforts to continue modernizing and growing its fleet with cost-efficient and reliable…

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Upcoming SpaceX Anasis-II Mission Launch Scheduled for July 20th

WIL BALDWIN July 20, 2020

SpaceX is targeting Monday, July 20 for Falcon 9’s launch of the ANASIS-II mission, which will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The primary launch…

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Mesa Air Group Signs Five-Year Cargo Contract with DHL Express

WIL BALDWIN July 16, 2020

Adding two Boeing 737-400F to fleetFive-year contract with service scheduled to start October 2020Opening a new crew and maintenance base in Cincinnati Mesa Air Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MESA) today announced plans to begin providing air cargo service for DHL Express with…

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Bell Boeing Delivers 400th V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Aircraft

WIL BALDWIN June 13, 2020

The Bell Boeing [NYSE:BA] V-22 team recently delivered its 400th aircraft, a CV-22 for U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. The first production V-22 was delivered on May 24, 1999, and today deliveries occur under the Multi-year…

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Airbus Solar Orbiter Ready for Close-Up With The Sun

WIL BALDWIN June 8, 2020

Currently traveling at some 105 million kilometres from Earth, the Airbus-built Solar Orbiter (SolO) is en route for an encounter to uncover the secrets of our closest star. While humankind has been studying the Sun for…

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New Zealand to Buy Five New Super Hercules Aircraft

WIL BALDWIN June 5, 2020

WELLINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Friday that it will purchase five C-130J-30 Super Hercules transport aircraft from Lockheed Martin to replace its existing fleet. "Along with the new fleet, the $1.521…

SpaceX Returns Human Spaceflight to the United States

WIL BALDWIN June 1, 2020June 1, 2020

On Saturday, May 30 at 3:22 p.m. EDT, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the next day Crew Dragon autonomously docked to…