NAM’s managed MD-11F Landing and taking off at Stansted Airport

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Here is a short video provided by Elliot Langran, showing the landing and taking off of an Boeing 747-400F.

Network Cargo Management (NCM) Represent FINNAIR Cargo in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

The arrival of four new Airbus A350-900 airliners during 2017 will enable Finnair to grow its long-haul winter 2017/2018 schedule and alongside growth in its existing markets, it will also introduce four popular leisure destinations to its network. These routes from Helsinki to Goa, India; Havana, Cuba; Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic; and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico will be launched in the final quarter of the year and will initially operate on a seasonal basis through to the end of March 2018.

The first of the new Finnair routes to launch will be to Puerto Vallarta, a popular tourism region on Mexico’s Pacific Ocean coast with weekly Sunday flights being launched from November 19, 2017 and flown by an A350 through to March 18, 2018. A twice weekly link to the coastal city of Goa in India, operated by an A330 on Wednesdays and Sundays, will follow from November 29, 2017 through to March 21, 2018.

On November 30, 2017, the new scheduled weekly A330 flight to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic will commence, with a twice weekly service to Havana in Cuba due to start from December 1, 2017.  This will be flown using an A350 and both routes will operate through to March 23, 2018.

“With the expected arrival of four new Airbus A350 aircraft in 2017, we are pressing ahead with our growth strategy. These newest additions will offer even more travel options and flexibility for our customers travelling between Asia and Europe.”

Juha Järvinen
Chief Commercial Officer, Finnair

Finnair will also add capacity to Thailand during the winter 2017 season. Two additional weekly frequencies will be added to its Bangkok route, bringing the total number of flights between Helsinki and Bangkok to 16 times weekly. It will also adjust its schedule to offer a late evening flight between both cities giving additional flexibility for travellers, while schedules for Krabi and Phuket routes have also been adjusted to enable more efficient connections for passengers flying from the Baltic and Scandinavian countries via Helsinki.

Alongside developments in these predominantly leisure markets, Finnair will also add a weekly frequency on its Delhi route, flying six times a week to the Indian capital during the winter season. Meanwhile, it will also be adding two new frequencies to its Singapore route, making it a daily destination year-round, and three additional weekly frequencies to Hong Kong, making it a 10 times weekly operation year-round.

“With the expected arrival of four new Airbus A350 aircraft in 2017, we are pressing ahead with our growth strategy,” says Juha Järvinen, chief commercial officer at Finnair. “These newest additions will offer even more travel options and flexibility for our customers travelling between Asia and Europe through our efficient Helsinki airport hub which guarantees a short and smooth connection.”

Finnair was the first European carrier to fly the A350 and has a commitment to receive 19 aircraft by the end of 2023. It received its first aircraft in October 2015 and began the year with seven aircraft. This will grow to eleven by the end of 2017, supporting this network growth directly through new route launches and aircraft substitutions allowing its A330s to be deployed into new markets.

The arrival of the A350 into the Finnair fleet is providing significant growth opportunities, but in the short-term is delivering some complexities to the carrier’s long-haul operation as it works to train existing A330 and A340 crews to fly the new generation airliner. This has resulted in the wet-lease of a Hi Fly A340 for its Helsinki – New York route between November 3, 2016 and January 8, 2017, the wet-lease of an Iberia A330 to serve Helsinki – Miami from January 7, 2017 to April 30, 2017 and the short-term cancellation of its Helsinki – Chongqing route between January 11, 2017 and May 1, 2017.

“This aircraft is the future of flying and gives our passengers a completely new and enhanced travel experience,” Pekka Vauramo, chief executive, Finnair told Routesonline during an interview late last year. “But, we have had a few teething issues like any first operator of an aircraft and our own staff training has been one issue.

“Pilot training is a key part of our preparations for growth and it is disappointing we have had to seek third party support to deliver our schedule. We needed to respect our schedule and the wet-lease deals enable us to ensure punctual operations. Unfortunately, with regard Chongqing, overflight restrictions limit the use of wet-leased aircraft and therefore led to the short-term cancellation.”

While the range and performance of the A350 means, it is well suited to Finnair’s long-haul operations to both the east and west, the aircraft is also proving valuable on short-haul routes with regular deployment on the airline’s flights from Helsinki to Brussels and London. This is as much to meet freight demand than peak passenger flows into Helsinki and beyond.

“The A350 helps to deliver additional cargo capacity via Helsinki into Asia,” said Vauramo. “We have major cargo flows into both European cities.” With capacity restrictions at Heathrow, Vauramo predicts the A350 could be used more and more to its London schedule, while he even suggests the aircraft can support peak traffic flows on domestic routes.  “We could easily see the aircraft flying Helsinki – Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland in the peak winter months,” he added.

More capacity being deployed in key markets in 2017

In line with its growth strategy, Finnair is also adding capacity on several popular European short-haul routes for the upcoming year. Its new Helsinki – Reykjavik route which begins on April 11, 2017 will gain a fifth weekly frequency on Wednesdays between May 31, 2017 and August 11, 2017 to meet demand. The route will also become a year-round destination with three weekly frequencies now planned during the winter season.

Finnair is also increasing capacity in Denmark with an additional daily frequency on weekdays to Copenhagen and a larger aircraft on the Billund route. This is to not just meet local demand point-to-point demand, but the increasing flows of passengers connecting to long-haul flights via Helsinki, most notably to and from China.

“Last year, Copenhagen was our largest destination from China and we see more potential in Denmark with our upcoming new destinations and growth plans,” said Järvinen. “We also started our route to Billund last spring and we have been very pleased as there is high demand from Finland to visit Legoland, in particular during the summer months and the route connects well to our Asian network via Helsinki.”

“Last year, Copenhagen was our largest destination from China and we see more potential in Denmark with our upcoming new destinations and growth plans.”

Juha Järvinen
Chief Commercial Officer, Finnair

As of May 14, 2017, five weekly frequencies will be added year-round to the Copenhagen route, including a morning flight from Copenhagen which will enable convenient day trips to Helsinki for business passengers. Compared to the previous summer season, Finnair is increasing capacity on the Copenhagen route by 21 per cent.

Increased capacity on Helsinki – Billund will be delivered between June and August by Finnair flying four days per week with an A319, instead of an Embraer E190 aircraft, boosting capacity by eleven per cent.

Elsewhere, a third daily frequency to Vilnius on weekdays will be added year-round as of May 15, 2017, to open additional European and long haul connections from Lithuania’s capital and a daily frequency will be added to Warsaw for the peak summer season between June 5, 2017 and August 4, 2017.

An additional weekly frequency will also be added to the Helsinki – Dublin route for the winter 2017 season, while the Saturday Helsinki – Alanya-Gazipasa flight will be extended until the middle of December 2017.

“Our journey towards growth continues and we are very pleased with our line-up of short-haul destinations for the upcoming year,” said Järvinen.

“These exciting changes and developments for our airline reflect the increased demand, both from our Asian customers and our local customers, on these popular European routes.”

NCM Represent FINNAIR Cargo in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Andy King | Sales Director

T: + 1 305-938 0620/1 M: +44 (0)7801 435780 or +1 678 200 8949

Network Airline Service (BLL) are pleased to be appointed GSA for SUN-AIR Cargo of Scandinavia effective from 1st April, 2017

Flights operate from Sun Air’s Hub´s at; Billund, Aarhus and Aalborg to the following destinations; London City, Manchester, Bergen, Dusseldorf, Gothenburg, Munich, Oslo & Stockholm.

SUN-AIR – a Danish carrier registered in 1978 operating with Dornier 328 and Jet 31/32. Although restrictive the convenience of direct flights with express handling attract highly sensitive and express cargo.

The motto of SUN-AIR is “not bigger – but better” and with these words NAS will connect their key destinations via the main-hub in Billund.

For more information

Email bll@network-airline.com

Air Malta Cargo has announced the appointment of NAS Belgium as cargo GSA Belgium with a go live date of 1st April 2017.

The appointment follows Air Malta increasing flights from Brussels as of Summer, 2017. Commenting on this appointment John Gilfeather, Network Airline Services Sales Director explained that ‘As Air Malta increase the cargo capacity offered from Belgium this station has become key to our growth strategy.

Johan Ver der Schueren and the NAS team have strong relationships with the Freight Forwarders in Belgium. We are confident that with this appointment they will be able to increase the support

from Belgium to not only Malta but other destinations in Italy, Israel. Slovakia and Romania served by Air Malta

Network Airline Services represents more than twenty airlines in its capacity as General Sales and Services Agent (GSSA) providing Airlines with effective solutions to increasing their market share and maximising their revenue from air cargo.

With thirty-six offices across the five continents Network Airline Services is strategically positioned to provide airlines with cargo GSSA representation on a global, regional or national basis.

Air Malta operate a fleet of Airbus narrow body aircraft operating to over 35 destinations across Europe.

For more information

Johan Van der Schueren Country Manager Belgium

T: +32 (0) 2 721 11 75

Etihad Cargo Represented by Network Airline Services were presented with an award by Stat Trade Times at Air Cargo Africa Johannesburg..

The award presented was for  “Global Air Cargo Brand of the Year”

Air Cargo Africa held in Johannesburg February 2017

Network Airline Services were delighted to be collecting their award for International General Sales Agent of the Year in Africa 2017 presented by Stat Trade Times.

Collecting the award was Sarah Wangui – Managing Director – East Africa from the NAS Nairobi Office and John Gilfeather – NAS Sales Director.

Aircargo Africa was attended by major participation from world wide players together with key players from the African airfreight community.

Network Airline Services operate a fleet of four MD11Fs and one Boeing 747-400F operating a network of scheduled routes to and from Africa

as well as long term and ad hoc charter flights on a worldwide basis.

LACHS Liege Air Cargo

Are the new Handling Agent in Liege (LGG) for Network Airline Services

Effective from 01 February, 2017

Operation 24 Hr

Tel: +32 42 34 00 80

Email: lachsops@lachs.be

For any further infomation on above please call  NAS on; +44 1293 547737

Network Airline Management operated a short notice relief flight from Vatry, France to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The flight operated with one of NAM’s managed B747-400Fs with a full load of relief goods chartered by French Charter Broker Incompliance Group.

Network Airline Managements Commercial Manager, Sam Lindsey reacted quickly to set up the charter with NAM’s Operations Department quickly securing permits, crews and handling.

“This is a good example of NAMs commercial and operations teams working over the weekend to make this flight happen, delivering much needed relief to the people of Haiti” said Andy Walters, Commercial Director, Network Airline Management.

Network Airline Management operate a managed fleet of B747-400Fs and MD11Fs based in Liege, Belgium.

For further information – contact: charters@network-airline.com

It is 1946, in the aftermath of World War II, the liberation also included French and international airspace, which opened to private companies. Dozens of new companies were born, but few would last. Aigle Azur is part of that small circle. Among these pioneering companies, Aigle Azur was created by Sylvain Floirat, In April 1946, he signed the company’s “birth certificate”. Aigle Azur then positioned itself successfully in North Africa, handling the repatriation of French teachers from Tunisia during school holidays…

The company expanded its fleet thanks to the U.S. surplus and expanded its range of destinations, opening its first routes to Morocco and Lebanon, and even opening a subsidiary in Indochina during the emerging conflict. The company took off and dominated the French and Mediterranean skies…

In 2001, Aigle Azur was taken over by the GoFast Group, which specialises in logistics

Today, the French company has more than 70 years in the business, focusing on the Mediterranean and Africa. It 300 scheduled flights per week, Near 25 destinations from 6 French and moved more than 2 Million passengers in 2014. Aigle Azur has a modern, homogeneous fleet: Airbus from A319 and A320 families.

“We believe that The Network Aviation group via its Network Airline Services GSA Branch will bring to Aigle Azur our knowhow of the Cargo Business”, Says Mr Florent TURLIER, NAS Group Business Development Manager. “The NAS Group has been a pioneer in its field and this may be why we better understand the “Philosophy” of Aigle Azur”. We both have many years of experiences in the Airline Business and we worked to preserve the original spirit of our companies by focusing on two key words: loyalties and trust”.

As per Yacine BOUSSEKSOU, Aigle Azur Cargo Department Manager: “Network Airline Services has a proven track record of creating higher sales and services standard and we are confident that NAS will optimise our potential by using their international Network”.

Network Airline Services proudly announce that they have been appointed General Cargo Sales Agent in Denmark for Adria Airways Cargo – The Airline of Slovenia.

Adria Airways focuses on operating scheduled regional flights especially throughout Europe, constantly adding new flights and destinations.

For more than 15 years Adria Airways has served Copenhagen (CPH) online as destination. During the summer period they operate 4 times per week to/from Ljubljana (LJU).

Their main hub is in Ljubljana and from there they serve destinations such as; Pristina (PRN), Sarajevo (SJJ), Podgorica (TGD), Skopje (SKP), Tirana (TIA), Lodz (LCJ), Amsterdam (AMS), Frankfurt (FRA), Munich (MUC) & Vienna (VIE).

The fleet of Adria Airways consised of; 3 x Airbus 319 and 9 x Canadair Regional Jets.

Network Airline Services are sure we can develop this product together with Adria Airways Cargo and affirm our common position in the marked.

We look forward to a long and successful working relationship.

Network Airline Services – Denmark Contact:

Tel; +45 32 454200 – Email; bll@network-airline.com