Descartes Global Freight Exchange Enhanced to Support Real-time Web Services
from Reuters
Air Freight Asia 2009 – Descartes Systems Group, a global on-demand software-as-a-service logistics solutions provider, has enhanced its Global Freight Exchange service to provide tighter, real-time integration with air carriers. The enhancements facilitate access to available capacity, routings and pricing when booking freight electronically. More

Airport Plea: Fly Local, Keep Carriers
from The Desert Sun
Tom Nolan, the airport's executive director, had a message for local residents. "If you are from the Coachella Valley, Calif., use your airport so we can demonstrate to the air carriers that the demand is here," Nolan said, noting that some locals are opting to use other regional airports. More

Airline Fees are Big Money; a Whopping 345 Percent Jump
from BusinessWeek
Everyone knows the growth of airlines' ancillary revenues has been extraordinary, but now there's a worldwide figure on just how extraordinary: $10.25 billion in 2008. That tally represents a stunning 345 percent increase since 2006, and is likely to creep higher this year as airlines find traction with the new fees. More

Airbus Says Travel to Jump Four Percent in 2010; Boeing Sees No Rebound
from Bloomberg
Airbus SAS, the world's biggest planemaker, forecast a jump of four percent or more in global air travel next year after Boeing Co. said the market was unlikely to rebound before 2011. The European planemaker expects a decline of less than four percent this year, followed by, at worst, unchanged demand next year, according to a presentation by Laurent Rouaud, its market research head, at the Hong Kong air show. More

Engine Preservation Rules Apply to Parked Aircraft
from CharterX
A number of business jets–more than 3,000 by some estimates–are sitting idle on the ramp as their owners wait for the economy to improve. According to Rich Schuller, founder of Schuller Aerospace Services International of Scottsdale, Ariz., there could be trouble brewing for those owners. More

Air Canada Ban by U.S. Leaves NHL Teams Angry, Panicked
from Yahoo! Sports
"Cabotage." It sounds like a Beastie Boys B-side, but it's actually a term used in aviation to describe the rights of an airline to fly passengers between domestic destinations in a country. It's also at the heart of a breaking story in Canada that has NHL and government officials outraged after the U.S. Department of Transportation banned Air Canada's charter fleet from flying between U.S. cities. More

Rise in Air Freight Points to Increased Confidence
from Business Day
Business confidence is returning to the global economy if the up-tick in the air freight market is any guide. "From mid-July through to August we have seen a recovery in both the domestic and international air cargo markets. It is still a weak recovery and way off the volumes we saw at the same time last year but there is definitely an improvement," Alwyn Rautenbach, MD of Airlink Cargo and chairman of SA's Air Cargo Operators Committee, said. More

Is UPS About to Make Another Labor Relations Mistake?
From Gerson Lehrman Group
Some 1,400 Teamster mechanics who maintain planes for UPS's fleet of 263 cargo planes plan to hold a strike authorization vote next week. This comes at the start of the air cargo peak shipping season. A UPS spokesman downplays the chances of a strike, calling the authorization vote "contract posturing" with "absolutely no legal significance whatsoever." More