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Getting wet in a good cause

For the second year in a row, Cargolux took the top spot at the Luxembourg Red Cross's Afterwork Swimming event. A team of Cargolux employees competed against eight other corporate teams in a gruelling race involving aquatic marathon, an endurance relay race, sprint swimming and water running. Proceeds go to the Red Cross Social Groceries stores in Luxembourg where families in need can buy essential food for about one-third of ... [+]

Big bird flies to Hanoi

Cargolux operated its first Boeing 747-8 freighter revenue flight to Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on 17 March. It has also increased its services to Hanoi to three weekly rotations and also serves Ho Chi Minh City once a week. [+]

Cargolux adds Port Harcourt

All-cargo airline Cargolux is adding Port Harcourt in Nigeria to its African network, served by a Boeing 747 nose-door freighter. The city is in the heart of the country's oil and gas industry, which is demanding more direct flights for equipment and support-related items. Cargolux adds that it will add ... [+]

Cargolux in holding pattern

Luxembourg all-cargo airline Cargolux is to ask its shareholders for an additional US$100 million in convertible loan funding in the first quarter of 2013, under a new business plan agreed by the Board of Directors today (7 February). Speculation over the future of the carrier has mounted after Qatar Airways ... [+]

Qatar pulls out of Cargolux

Luxembourg-based freight airline Cargolux is reported to be seeking a new shareholder after a row at a shareholders meeting on 16 November saw 35% stakeholder Qatar Airways pull out. The dispute happened after Qatar Airways failed in its bid to install its favoured candidate, Richard Forson, as CEO and to ... [+]

Jumbo no. 5 for Cargolux

Cargolux took delivery of its fifth Boeing 747-8 freighter on 13 September at its Luxembourg base. It is the second airplane delivered from the US manufacturer with an improved (six-tonne) operational weight.  [+]

Ecuador switch for Cargolux

Cargolux has resumed twice-weekly services to Latacunga instead of Quito following the completion of two years of renovation work at the former airport. Latacunga now has the longest runway in Ecuador, allowing take-offs at full payload and there is no night curfew.  [+]

New boss for Cargolux

Cargolux has appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer, Richard Forson as its interim president and CEO. he will retain his CFO responsibilities during the interim period. It follows the resignation of Frank Reimen as president and CEO of the all-cargo airline following his appointment as High Commissioner for ... [+]

Cargolux chief quits

Frank Reimen has resigned as president and CEO of all-cargo airline Cargolux following his appointment as High Commissioner for National Protection by the Luxembourg Government. Cargolux said that it would appoint an interim CEO “in the very next future” and that a search for a permanent replacement was underway. [+]

Fourth freighter for Cargolux

Luxembourg-based all-cargo airline Cargolux took delivery of its fourth Boeing 747-8 Freighter at the aircraft manufacturer’s delivery center in Everett on 24 May. After a short ferry flight to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport the aircraft went into revenue service on the same day with the flight continuing to Los Angeles prior to joining ... [+]

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