Archive for August 2020

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES United Airlines Is Eliminating Change Fees For Good simpleflying.com United Airlines has announced today that it is getting rid of change fees for all standard economy and premium cabin tickets for travel in the US effective immediately. […]

OCEAN FREIGHT UPDATES Ocean freight recovering faster than expected lloydsloadinglist.com Container markets will likely continue to bounce back through the third and fourth quarters of this year and return to 2019 levels next year as the recovery from Covid-19 lockdowns […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Hurricane Laura: United Airlines cancels flights, cargo delayed freightwaves.com A total of 414 flights were canceled at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston as of Wednesday afternoon as Hurricane Laura, now a Category 4 storm, bears down […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Growth in air cargo market driving rising demand for B737 conversions theloadstar.com Texel Air, a private carrier and MRO operator based in Bahrain, is opening a new chapter for Boeing 737NG aircraft. In a market that demands […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES New air cargo security standards could gum up e-commerce exports freightwaves.com The U.S. supply chain industry appears divided over how the government should implement new international security standards for cargo carried on freighter aircraft and whether certain […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES May Turned Out To Have The Lowest Number Of Flights In US History simpleflying.com May turned out to be a pretty bad month for airlines. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) released statistics for airline operations in […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES Canada To Test Fly The Boeing 737 MAX Next Week simpleflying.com The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was the first regulatory body to test flight system revisions of the beleaguered Boeing 737 MAX. Now, Canada’s air […]

AIR FREIGHT UPDATES World Food Program says COVID air network could fold soon freightwaves.com The World Food Program (WFP) says its air logistics support for humanitarian groups fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is running out of money. The United Nations organization […]