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IAG Cargo and its airlines British Airways and Vueling have partnered with the Spanish Red Cross and Khalsa Aid to deliver aid, including tents and food, to earthquake-hit regions of Syria and Turkey. It added that it would continue to collaborate with charities and IAG airlines to facilitate aid flights into the region.
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IAG Cargo uplifted 53,793kg of cargo on a freight-only British Airways B777-300 aircraft flight from Nairobi to Heathrow in March – a record for Kenya. The payload comprised a mix of products including fruits and vegetables, textiles and courier material. Area commercial manager for East Africa, Michael Muriithi said the ...
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IAG Cargo operated its 1000th charter flight of 2020, a Boeing 777-200 which departed at the end of the year from London Heathrow for Los Angeles Airport. To date, more than 750 charter flights have transported PPE and medical supplies, and are also being used to transport COVID-19 vaccines.
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IAG Cargo’s commercial revenues were up 14.1% to €302m in the third quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. Overall yields for the quarter were up 113.4% on the same time last year at constant currency, reflecting the extra costs of a flying programme that continues ...
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The services to Lagos, Cairo, Cape Town, Abuja and Accra were paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but have now returned, providing daily cargo services using wide-body 777 and 787 aircraft to and from London Heathrow.
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IAG Cargo has launched a Forward.Platinum loyalty programme that rewards customers with a revenue spend of over €1.3m a year. It joins IAG Cargo’s FORWARD.REWARDS scheme for smaller customers. Forward.Platinum membership is by invitation only and allows customers to redeem loyalty points for flights with British Airways and Iberia or ...
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British Airways and the oneworld alliance said they would fly from Heathrow to over 20 long-haul destinations in July in its provisional flying program published in early June. Services will include Atlanta, San Francisco, Mexico City, Dubai, Johannesburg, and Seoul. BA’s IAG Cargo arm said in May that 21 flights ...
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IAG Cargo says that 21 British Airways flights are now operating every week from China to London with capacity of up to 770 tonnes of cargo for the NHS shipped in joint effort with the UK Government and the British Embassy in Beijing. From May, 14 flights each week will ...
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