Born into the famous Foyle’s bookshop family in January 1943, William Richard Mervyn Christopher Foyle was trained in the art of commerce at the West End shop before entering the world of aviation with the Royal Air Force section of the Combined Cadet Force. He founded Air Foyle in 1978 with one ...

Mr Widelund has extensive experience in the logistics and transport sector, beginning his career at Nordisk Transport, responsible for traffic sales. His next role was taking responsibility for freight procurement at Swedish industrial manufacturer Alimak, which was followed by a stint as site mana...

It marks a return to AA’s cargo division for Ms Oliver, where she spent four years as senior global accounts manager, EMEA, followed by a stint leading the EMEA strategy and projects team in the passenger business. She has worked at AA for some eight years. Ms Oliver replaces Tim Isik, who left l...

German forwarder Senator International, acquired by Maersk in June, has for several years operated regular charter flights to Greenville-Spartanburg, initially to cater for cargo heading to and from BMW’s production plant in Spartanburg. No one at Maersk’s air freight management team was availa...

Louis Paul Tardif, who was director, economic analysis & research for Transport Canada for nearly 15 years, joins SASI as senior associate, based in Ottawa. Stan Wraight, president and CEO of SASI, said: “Louis Paul brings the highest level of knowledge and skill sets needed today as SASI World b...

To nobody’s surprise, the integrator is raising surcharges for parcel deliveries, with the biggest impact hitting large shippers, as much of the mechanism is volume-based, hitting those that send more than 20,000 packages a week. The surcharges will kick in on 30 October, and stay until 14 Januar...

Mr Ball was with the Russian carrier for 15 years, most recently as GE aviation key account manager for Europe, but also held the roles of deputy ground operations manager EMEA and operations manager Frankfurt. Mr Ball said he was “really looking forward to being a part of this world-class teamâ€...

With increasing customers for its cargo management package, Awery said it was keen to boost its team. Ms den Hertog has worked for Cathay Pacific, Polar Air Cargo, Kales and, for the past 13 years, in various positions at AirBridgeCargo and Volga-Dnepr, where she oversaw the implementation of its c...

Last week, the US government suspended 26 China-bound September flights from Chinese carriers in a tit-for-tat response to the Chinese government’s move to cancel flights by US carriers over Covid cases. The impacted airlines include Xiamen, Air China, China Southern and China Eastern, while the ...

It is arguably one of the strongest indications to date that lower deck cargo space – which, before the pandemic, represented roughly 50% of global cargo capacity – is steadily returning to the market. Lufthansa Cargo markets the belly capacity of more than 6,000 flights a week by Lufthansa and...