EL AL adds
nonstop service between Miami
and Tel Aviv on March 28,
2006.
Flights will operate twice weekly, every Tuesday and Saturday
evening year round on a Boeing 767 aircraft replacing the twice-weekly
one stop service from Miami to Tel Aviv.
EL AL also flies nonstop to Israel from New
York (via JFK/Newark) with up to 28 nonstop flights every
week
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Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings,
President and CEO Jeffrey Erickson,
who steered the company out of bankruptcy in 2004 is retiring.
Atlas, driven by big military contracts also said that it
expects to post pre-tax income of about $125 million when it releases
its final 2005 results in April.
Jeffrey Erickson whose departure date is yet to be set, has
done this kind of thing before at TWA where
he piloted the now defunct U.S. legacy carrier to a couple years more
than it might have had.
At Atlas Mr. Erickson again worked his magic.
He will remain on Atlas's board of directors.
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Emirates, launches
A330-200 featuring 17 tons of cargo lift thrice weekly to the Ethiopian
capital of Addis Ababa March
27.
The carrier said flights to Addis Ababa go daily December
2006.
Emirates currently serves East
Africa with double-daily flights to Nairobi
and daily flights to Entebbe
and Dar-es-Salaam.
With the addition of Addis Ababa, Emirates’ African
service will total 31 flights a week.
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 Airbus
entry to Asian Aerospace
held at Changi in Singapore,
21st-26th February will feature A380.
Airbus comes to Asian Aerospace ‘06 hoping to start
all over again after record orders, deliveries and profitability in ‘05.
During 2005, Airbus somehow pulled off an 11th hour trump
of rival Boeing with 1,111
gross orders and 378 deliveries.
Most analysts think 2006 will slow up a bit for new orders
for both manufacturers.
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IATA
said that international passenger traffic rose 7.6% in 2005 while air
cargo grew 3.2%, amidst about $6 billion in losses. Middle
East grew 13.1% while Latin
America, rose 11.4%. Asia/Pacific
slowed to 6.3%. North America's
load factor of 79.5% was the highest. Cargo growth was "disappointingly
low," IATA said. Cargo and passenger traffic are expected to grow
5%-6% in 2006 as the industry loses another $4 billion, IATA said. |
Saltchuk Resources, a privately-owned
holding company based in the Pacific Northwest bought Alaska-based Northern
Air Cargo with a fleet of four jet and turbine aircraft,
five Douglas DC-6 all cargo
aircraft, 280 people, generating revenues in excess of $50 million.
The deal is apparently Northern stays in Alaska
doing what it does best since the 1950’s.
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