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Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo AG is a German cargo airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa. It operates worldwide air freight and logistics services and is headquartered at Frankfurt Airport, Lufthansa's main hub. Besides operating dedicated cargo planes, the company also has access to cargo capacities of 350 passenger aircraft of the Lufthansa Group. History Foundation and early years Recognizing the growing importance of the cargo business, Lufthansa established its cargo subsidiary in 1977 called German Cargo Services GmbH. Previously, cargo operations were executed in-house, under the ''Lufthansa Cargo'' name, when – in an effort to restructure the company – the cargo division was re-integrated into its parent, and split up into two parts (one for scheduled operations using Lufthansa-owned aircraft, and one for freight and logistics services using chartered or leased aircraft). In 1996, Hinduja Cargo Services was founded as a joint venture between Hinduja Group and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boeing 777F
The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long haul, long-range Wide-body aircraft, wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the world's largest twinjet and the most-built wide-body airliner. The Jet airliner, jetliner was designed to bridge the gap between Boeing's other wide body airplanes, the twin-engined Boeing 767, 767 and quad-engined Boeing 747, 747, and to replace aging DC-10 and L-1011 trijets. Developed in consultation with eight major airlines, the 777 program was launched in October 1990, with an order from United Airlines. The B-HNL, prototype aircraft rolled out in April 1994, and first flew that June. The 777 entered service with the launch operator United Airlines in June 1995. Longer-range variants were launched in 2000, and first delivered in 2004. The Triple Seven can accommodate a ten–abreast seating layout and has a typical 3-class capacity of 301 to 368 passengers, with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinduja Group
Hinduja Group is an Indian Conglomerate (company), conglomerate. The group is present in eleven sectors including automotive, oil and specialty chemicals, banking and finance, IT and ITeS, cyber security, healthcare, trading, infrastructure project development, Media (communication), media and entertainment, power, and real estate. The net worth of the Hinduja brothers was estimated to be billion in 2022, making them the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom. In May 2023, company patriarch Srichand Hinduja died. In October 2024, the Hinduja family was ranked 11th on the Forbes list of India’s 100 richest tycoons, with a net worth of $22 billion. History The company was founded in 1914 by Parmanand Hinduja, Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, who was from a Sindhis, Sindhi family based in India. Initially operating in Shikarpur, Sindh, Shikarpur (in modern-day Pakistan) and Bombay, India, he set up the company's first international operation in Iran in 1919. The headquarters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenzhen Airlines
Shenzhen Airlines is an airline headquartered in Bao'an, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is based in Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport. It has been a member of Star Alliance since 2012, and is currently one of two Chinese airlines that are members. In 2010, the airline carried 16.5 million passengers, up 9% from the previous year. The airline had its headquarters in the Lintian Building at Shenzhen Airport. Destinations , Shenzhen Airlines flies (or has flown) to the following destinations: Codeshare agreements Shenzhen Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines: * Air China * Air Macau * All Nippon Airways * Asiana Airlines * Cathay Pacific * EVA Air * Kunming Airlines * Shandong Airlines * Sichuan Airlines * Singapore Airlines * Thai Airways International * Tibet Airlines * Uni Air Fleet , Shenzhen Airlines operates the following aircraft: The airline previously operated the following aircraft: See also *Air China * Henan A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jade Cargo International
Jade Cargo International was a cargo airline with its headquarters on the sixth floor of the Shenzhen Airlines Flight Operations Building at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It operated regular cargo services to Asia, Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East, plus a host of other worldwide destinations. It main base was Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport. History Jade Cargo International was established in October 2004 and was co-owned by Shenzhen Airlines, which had a 51% stake; Lufthansa Cargo with 25%; and DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, a subsidiary of German state-owned bank KfW – with 24%. It started operations in August 2006. It was the first cargo airline in China with foreign ownership and had 350 employees (as of March 2009). On December 25, 2011, Jade Cargo International flew its last scheduled flight, as JI7466 from Frankfurt (FRA) to Shanghai (PVG), via Shenyang (SHE). A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemelyanovo Airport
Krasnoyarsk International Airport () , is a major airport in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, northwest of Krasnoyarsk. , it was the biggest in Russia in passenger traffic. History Construction of the airport started in 1970. It opened for operations in 1980. In 2005, the airport launched Terminal 2 for handling transit and international passengers. By 2006, the old runway coating had been replaced by an asphalt-concrete layer with reinforced polymeric netting. In November 2007, it was announced that Lufthansa Cargo might switch its Asian refueling and distribution point from Astana, Kazakhstan, to Krasnoyarsk (Yemelyanovo) International Airport, because Russia would no longer permit Lufthansa the use of its air space for their Europe to Asia flights unless they could sell fuel. In July 2008, Lufthansa stated that it would move its cargo logistics hub from Astana to Krasnoyarsk (Yemelyanovo) once the airport was brought up to ICAO safety standards. The cargo terminal of Lufthansa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to the China–Kazakhstan border, east, Kyrgyzstan to the Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan border, southeast, Uzbekistan to the Kazakhstan–Uzbekistan border, south, and Turkmenistan to the Kazakhstan–Turkmenistan border, southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea. Its capital is Astana, while the largest city and leading cultural and commercial hub is Almaty. Kazakhstan is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, ninth-largest country by land area and the largest landlocked country. Steppe, Hilly plateaus and plains account for nearly half its vast territory, with Upland and lowland, lowlands composing another third; its southern and eastern frontiers are composed of low mountainous regions. Kazakhstan has a population of 20 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport
Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport , alternatively referred by its previous name as Astana International Airport until 2017 (or simply Astana Airport), is the international airport serving Astana, Kazakhstan, the capital and second most populous city in the country. It is the primary aviation hub for northern Kazakhstan. Regionally, it stands as the third-busiest international air passenger gateway into Central Asia (after Almaty International Airport (ALA) and Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport in Uzbekistan). The airport is also the second-busiest airport in Kazakhstan and the 9th busiest in the Post-Soviet states in terms of total passenger traffic, air traffic movements and total cargo handled, with 8,315,108 passengers served in 2024 (10,18% year over year increase). On average, the airport handles more than 200 departures a day. It is located in the Esil administrative subdivision of Astana, south-east of the city centre. The airport features two passe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airline Codes
This is a list of airline codes. The table lists IATA's two-character airline designators, ICAO's three-character airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). IATA airline designator IATA airline designators, sometimes called IATA reservation codes, are two-character codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the world's airlines. The standard is described in IATA's '' Standard Schedules Information Manual'' and the codes themselves are described in IATA's ''Airline Coding Directory''. (Both are published semiannually.) The IATA codes were originally based on the ICAO designators which were issued in 1947 as two-letter airline identification codes (see the section below). IATA expanded the two-character-system with codes consisting of a letter and a digit (or vice versa) e.g. EasyJet's U2 after ICAO had introduced its current three-letter-system in 1982. Until then, only combinations of letters were used. Airline desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matters
Matter is the substance of which objects are made. Matter or Matters may also refer to: * Matter (philosophy), a concept in philosophy Entertainment and media * ''Matters'' (album), a 2004 album by Pulley * ''Matter'' (novel), a 2008 novel by Iain M. Banks * Matter (film), a 2012 Marathi-language Indian film directed by Satish Motling * ''Matter'' (online magazine), an online science publication * ''Matter'' (music magazine), a Chicago music magazine * ''Matter'' (journal), an online science publication * Matters (band) * Matter (venue), a London music venue and nightclub * ''Matter'' (album), a 2016 album by synthpop artist St Lucia * ''Matter'' (video game), a cancelled video game for the Xbox 360 Folklore * Matter of Britain * Matter of France * Matter of Rome Other * Matter (standard), a home automation connectivity standard * Matter Valley, a Swiss valley containing Zermatt See also * Brain matter (other) * Dark matter In astronomy, dark matter i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airline Alliance
An airline alliance is an aviation industry arrangement between two or more airlines agreeing to cooperate on a substantial level. Alliances may provide marketing branding to facilitate travelers making inter-airline codeshare agreement, codeshare connections within countries. This branding may involve unified Aircraft livery, aircraft liveries of member aircraft. In 2015, Star Alliance was the largest with 23% of total scheduled traffic in Passenger#Revenue passenger kilometres, revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs)/revenue passenger miles (RPMs), followed by SkyTeam with 20.4% and Oneworld with 17.8%, leaving % for others. In 2019, by number of passengers, Star Alliance was leading 762 million, followed by SkyTeam (630 million) and Oneworld (535 million). Rationale Benefits can consist of an extended network, often realised through codeshare agreements. Many alliances started as only codeshare networks. Cost reductions come from sharing operation facilities (e.g. ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOW Alliance
WOW Alliance was a cargo airline alliance consisting of up to four airlines. History The WOW Alliance has been established in 2000 by the SAS Cargo Group, Lufthansa Cargo and Singapore Airlines Cargo while JAL Cargo joined in July 2002. Lufthansa Cargo subsequently left the WOW Alliance in 2009 while JAL Cargo ended its operations after more than 30 years of service in 2010 and left as well. The WOW Alliance ceased operations sometime after 2010 without any announcement. However, Singapore Airlines confirmed in 2023 that the alliance no longer exists. It's sole competitor had been the similar SkyTeam Cargo SkyTeam Cargo is a global cargo alliance in which all members are also members of the SkyTeam airline alliance. SkyTeam Cargo is the only cargo alliance in the world, likely since WOW Alliance ceased and disbanded. History Following the foundi .... Members The following cargo airlines were members of the WOW Alliance: References External links * (archive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FlightGlobal
FlightGlobal is an online news and information website which covers the aviation and aerospace industries. The website was established in February 2006 as the website of ''Flight International'' magazine, ''Airline Business'', ''ACAS'', ''Air Transport Intelligence'' (ATI), ''The Flight Collection'' and other services and directories. FlightGlobal has a picture library of over 1 million images, starting with the foundation of ''Flight'' in 1909. Thousands of images and back copies of ''Flight'' were searchable online but from June 2020 they are only available with a paid subscription to Flight Global Premium. FlightGlobal won the prize for "Business Website of the Year" at the Association of Online Publishers' Digital Publishing Awards 2010. According to the contest judges, "The site uses the full spectrum of digital tools, with a special focus on engagement and effective use of social media in a B2B usiness-to-businessenvironment". In August 2019, FlightGlobal and its asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
