January 24, 2019. "Kalitta Air makes it happen - on time, anytime, anywhere." Under this motto, the American cargo airline, headquartered in Ypsilanti Township, ...
US Department of Transportation (DoT) received (30-Jan-2019) an application from Kalitta Air requesting sanctions or other measures to actions committed by ...
Freighter conversions rose 11% in 2018, with widebody conversions hitting their highest level since 2008. Flight Fleets Analyzer shows that 2018 saw a total of ...
Boeing proved them all wrong. The 747 not only flew – lifting off for the first time 50 years ago, on 9 February 1969 – it prospered and endured, and in the ...
WILBER TWP. – Authorities say a pilot of a Kalitta Air Beechcraft Air King commuter aircraft was the lone victim after the aircraft crashed into the Huron-Manistee ...
Today we offer the final section of the 2019 edition of our annual widebody freighter fleet analysis. We began this year's analysis of the worldwide widebody.
The remains have not been positively identified, but authorities believe they are the pilot of a Kalitta Air charter plane that crashed on approach to Oscoda ...
OSCODA – A work session of the Oscoda Township Steering Committee resulted in the formulation of a draft mission statement, vision statement and list of ...
Kalitta Air operates services twice a week from AMS to New York JFK, specializing in outsized cargo such as helicopters and oil and gas equipment. Menzies ...
OSCODA – The Kalitta Air maintenance facility in Oscoda is the largest employer in the state north of Standish, employing more than 1000 workers.
OSCODA — The Yankee Air Museum's first aircraft, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, “Yankee Doodle Dandy” is undergoing a complete restoration of its exterior.
A US restriction on carrying tall, rigid cargo on 747 freighters is costing US operators millions of dollars in lost business to foreign competitors. In a filing on ...
Authorities think human remains found at the site of a plane crash in rural northern Michigan are a pilot from Orlando reported missing some hours earlier.
OSCODA – A large crowd made its way to the Warrior Pavilion of Ken Ratliff Memorial Park in Oscoda Township, where a public session was held on Oct. 29 to.
Menzies Aviation has renewed cargo contracts with two key customers at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. FedEx renewed its ramp and cargo contract with...
Every week in Cargo Facts Update, we include a list of recent freighter aircraft transactions, and then a comprehensive summary in the monthly issue of Cargo ...
WILBER TWP – A new report on a commuter aircraft crash that occurred in Wilber Township on Sept. 25 provides a few new details of the incident.
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Cargo Facts believes Turkish Airlines is the "Unidentified Customer" that ordered three 777Fs from Boeing. Every week in Cargo Facts Update, we include a list.
WILMINGTON, Ohio, Jan. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to a recent pilot survey, the management of Kalitta Air, LLC, the Ypsilanti, Mich.
A plane has crashed in Iosco County and human remains were found in the wreckage.
We at Cargo Facts thank you for your loyal readership during this busy year and wish you continued success in the coming new year. With only a handful of.
The Yankee Museum's first airplane, a World War II-era Douglas C-47 Skytrain, is getting restored by the Kalitta Maintenance division of Kalitta Air in Michigan.
Aeronautical Engineers Inc (AEI) has started work on the fifth B737-400SF freighter conversion for Kalitta Charters. The aircraft ...
OSCODA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities believe human remains found at the site of a wrecked plane in rural northern Michigan are a pilot from Florida ...
YPSILANTI -- NASCAR Cup Series driver Erik Jones is no stranger to extreme thrills. The 22-year-old is in his second year as a full-time NASCAR driver, racing ...
Changes for cargo handler Menzies Aviation have inadvertently put the spotlight on the willingness of airlines to change suppliers, adding to inefficiencies in the ...
The Senate Subcommittee on Federal Spending, Oversight and Emergency Management held a hearing on Sept. 26 regarding the per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...
When Pacific Air Cargo (PAC) founder Beti Ward passed away earlier this year, her legacy was a management team determined to continue her leadership style ...
The Yankee Air Museum's C-47 is currently undergoing a major facelift at Kalitta Air in Oscoda, Michigan. The museum has significant plans for further ...
Kalitta Air and its pilots have finally come to an agreement over a new contract after six years of negotiations. Voting on the tentative agreement...
Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM), the leasing affiliate of Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), has agreed to acquire from Jetran twenty 767-300ERs slated to ...
OSCODA – Kalitta Air may be recognized for conducting repairs on heavy aircraft, but a lesser known fact is that, for the past decade, the company has also ...
Every week in Cargo Facts Update, we include a list of recent freighter aircraft transactions, and then a comprehensive summary in the monthly issue of Cargo.
AFRA recently expanded its membership categories to invite airline companies to participate in the trade association.
Through opaque contracts, an Azerbaijani cargo airline once linked to the ruling Aliyev family has an impressive range of business partners — including the US ...
Richie Crampton's Top Fuel Dragster will display the Kalitta Air and DHL partnership in multiple races for the 2018 season. The scheme is modeled after the ...
The government is one step closer to coming up with regulation on minimum seat sizes for airline flights after the House passed the FAA reauthorization.
As WarbirdsNews reported a couple of weeks ago, Kalitta Air has been refurbishing the exterior of the Yankee Air Museum's C-47 Skytrain at their maintenance ...
OSCODA – The Oscoda Township Board of Trustees, following a work session on Dec. 7, have a better grasp on where the public would like to see the ...
American Airlines may not operate any freighters of its own, but as an operator of twenty-four 767-300ERs, the carrier is an important source for conversion.
Pilots at Kalitta Air are unhappy. The all-cargo carrier, which operates for DHL, has been told to “wake up” by the Teamsters Union, after a recent survey showed ...
This delivery is the first aircraft on lease to Kalitta from GECAS, adding capacity to Kalitta Air's existing fleet of more than 15 widebody freighters.
CHAMP Cargosystems has successfully completed US-based cargo carrier Kalitta Air's implementation of its Weight & Balance application used to manage.
Thanks to the protectionist trade policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, Canada's lobster industry is “winning.”
Luxembourg, 31st January 2017 – CHAMP Cargosystems has successfully completed US-based cargo carrier Kalitta Air's implementation of its Weight ...
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Ypsilanti based cargo airline Kalitta Air pilots have overwhelmingly passed a resolution of no confidence in the management of Kalitta Air.
Like many Americans, I want to provide my family with the opportunity to live a better life than my own and to work toward a brighter future for my children and ...
Pacific Air Express is based at Brisbane Airport (BNE). Brisbane's new runway, shown here, is scheduled to open in 2020. Source: Brisbane Airport ...
During my visit to Nagoya Centrair airport, a Boeing 777-200 performed a crazy missed approach while on a training flight.
HNA Group's Tianjin Air Cargo operates three 737 freighters, but executives have said they hope to have between fifty and one hundred aircraft operating for ...
Kalitta Motorsports and driver Richie Crampton are will welcome NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and ThorSport Racing drivers Matt Crafton and Myatt ...
No. 21: CONNIE KALITTA In a career that spans all eras of drag racing, Connie Kalitta has done almost everything and done absolutely all of it his way. Dogged ...
United is auctioning off a chance to travel to an aviation scrapyard for a final toast onboard its last 747, which is awaiting “disassembly” there.
Loss of power in two engines during initial climb, and a resulting near-stall, led to the fatal crash of a Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200F moments after departure from ...
Greensboro and Asheville flights are part of ongoing expansion for fast-growing Spirit, which had announced seven other new routes just a week earlier.
Hopes last month for a rebound in peak season may have dimmed, as October's decline in year-over-year air cargo traffic seems to have extended into ...
Earlier this year, the Volga-Dnepr Group firmed up orders for five 747-8Fs and signed an LOI for twenty-nine 777Fs with Boeing. Some of these freighters may.
Question: Can the 747 be saved? It's sad to see the most beautiful and iconic passenger plane ever built being retired. What has accounted for its demise?
The three 747-400Fs in NCA's fleet will be operated by Atlas on a CMI basis later this year. Today, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings announced the expansion of its.
FOSTORIA — For years, engine parts made in Fostoria have traveled to racing teams around the country. Monday, a racing team will return the favor. Driver Ri.
Today, China's state planner approved a 42.1-billion-yuan – or about US$6.1 billion – airport expansion project in Urumqi, the capital of China's far western ...
A partnership with Turkish Cargo could potentially grant Hong Kong Air Cargo access to much more freighter capacity on international routes. Although the ...
UK-based CargoLogicAir added a fourth 747 freighter. Earlier this week, London-based CargoLogicAir (CLA) added a 747-400 freighter (35170) to its fleet,
Cologne-based WDL Aviation, an ACMI specialist owned by Zeitfracht Group, is set to begin freighter operations in November. WDL's managing director told ch.
On 27 August, the United States and Mexico reached a preliminary trade deal that will affect the future of complex North American manufacturing supply chains.
Change fee waivers and flexible rebooking policies are now in place at every big airline serving the mid-Atlantic area that's expected to be in the path of ...
For three days this week, Idaho health agencies and EMS teams joined clinics in national training exercises to move patients with highly infectious disease.
The Cargo Facts team was treated this week to a behind-the-scenes tour of the cargo operations at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). There, the Port ...
Printed headline: Wake-up Call. The MRO industry in India has taken notice as Thailand, its neighbor across the ocean, announced plans to host a full-fledged ...
A variant of the Queen of the Skies took a step closer towards the history books this week as Kalitta Air retired its remaining 747-200, which is one of the few ...
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is to increase the charges for freighter flights by a minimum of 29% from April 1, while the minimum increase for passenger flights ...
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is to re-think its strategy, examining all the airports in the group and its overall cargo plan for the Netherlands. It is a year since the ...
Kalitta Air now operates 747-400F flights between Chicago and Wuhan on behalf of forwarder, Apex Logistics. On 9 December, a Kalitta Airlines 747-400F ...
Friday's potential problems follow a rough Thursday that saw more than 8000 delays. Two airlines, United and JetBlue, are waiving change fees for NYC.
Yankee Air Museum's C-47 restoration scheduled to show off exciting new paint scheme at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018.
FAA Reauthorization Bill includes several provisions that affect air travelers, including a directive that the FAA set standards for airline seat sizes.
Three months after Volga-Dnepr Group signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a new cargo hub at Liège Airport (LGG), the group's ...
Will the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge be a game changer for air freight in the Pearl River Delta region? Yesterday, the world's longest sea bridge, ...
Amazon.com has selected Fort Worth Alliance as its new regional hub and will build a brand new sorting facility at the airport, the Dallas Business Journal has ...
The Dutch Government has notified the European Commission of its intention to limit point-to-point airline operations at Amsterdam Schiphol and relocate them ...
From the "Eastern Swing" to the Western Swing, it's been a crazy couple of months on the NHRA tour and no one knows that better than the Kalitta Motorsports ...
Local authorities and residents in The Netherlands remain to be put at ease by Mediterranean Shipping Company's (MSC) promise to pay for the clean-up on ...
Earlier this year, Lufthansa Cargo began managing belly space capacity across Brussels Airlines' network. The Lufthansa Group reported revenues from its.
Unions representing pilots and flight engineers at cargo airline Kalitta Air say that they have reached an impasse in the five year long negotiations...
Saskia van Pelt, director business development cargo for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, is to leave the group in yet another shake-up for the Dutch air hub. Ms van ...
Pilots at airlines flying on behalf of DHL are taking a dispute over pay and working conditions to US president Donald Trump. In an open letter to...
In Mar-2018 the Boeing 747 finally lost its crown as the world's most successful widebody aircraft by the number of deliveries, when it was overtaken by Boeing's ...
According to Teamsters, Kalitta Air, the Ypsilanti, Michigan-based cargo airline, has reneged on its tentative agreement with pilots and their union.
US-based forwarder and logistics services provider Expeditors International reported record third quarter profitability, with the highest net revenue and.
Last month, when many of the world's major airports and carriers released June performance metrics, the air freight industry seemed poised to begin feeling.
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SF Express will launch trans-Pacific freighter operations in October with a 747-400F operated on an ACMI basis by Atlas Air. Beginning next month, Atlas Air.
Between 28 December and 11 January, Abu Dhabi-headquartered Etihad Airways removed all five of its A330-200 production freighters from *service* and placed ...
How are the mighty fallen! In March 2017, Etihad had just taken delivery of its fifth A330-200F, which joined five 777Fs. At the time, the airline served forty.
Frustrated by delayed flights? As the saying goes, you ain't seen nothing yet. But, on a brighter note, charters and freighter flights may fare better than bellies.
UPS will need to add seven "super hubs" like the London hub pictured here to meet its automated sortation goals. At a UPS "Transformation Conference" in ...
Until last year, there was a Boeing 747 parked at Willow Run Airport, in Ypsilanti. It looked comically out of place—most the other planes are two-seaters.