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IAG Cargo goes back to Sri Lanka

 says it will offer a full range of cargo services when it reinstates passenger flights from Colombo, Sri Lanka in mid-April after a 15-year absence. The new route, which includes a stopover in the Maldives, will be operated three times per week using a Boeing 777 aircraft. Sri Lanka is an important manufacturing and growing region for a wide range of goods including high-end retail, fruits and vegetables and rubber. IAG Cargo's ... [+]

Higher yields offset tonnage fall at IAG

IAG Cargo has reported fourth quarter commercial revenue (flown revenue plus fuel surcharges) of €329 million for the last quarter of 2012 versus €310 million in the same period last year. For the full year IAG Cargo reported commercial revenue of €1,217 million, an increase of 2.3 per cent on ... [+]

Supercar, super service

IAG Cargo, the single business created by British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo, moved a monster car to Hong Kong on its freight service recently. The twin turbo, 720 horsepower Pagani Huarya travelled from Frankfurt to Hong Kong on IAG's B747-8F freighter service, in conjunction with Dusseldorf-based Globaltrans International ... [+]

IAG goes thrice-weekly to Chengdu

British Airways-Iberia joint venture, IAG Cargo has launched thrice weekly passenger flights between London Heathrow and Chengdu in south-west China. The Boeing 777 service will provide wide-body cargo capacity to one of China's fastest-growing manufacturing regions. Outward flights depart Heathrow on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 1530, arriving in Chengdu ... [+]

Freewheeling to Zambia

IAG Cargo, the single business created by British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo, has airfreighted a donation of wheelchairs from Swiss Paralympic champion Heinz Frei to Mpanshya Hospital in Zambia. The wheelchairs will provide better mobility for patients and orphans in and around the hospital. The wheelchairs were flown ... [+]

IAG signs freight network deal

IAG Cargo - British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo’s single business unit – has signed a deal with Global Logistics Network (GLN), IAG hopes the agreement with the 421 company-strong, 125 country network will help it increase market share among small- to medium-sized agents. IAG also promises “highly attractive ... [+]

IAG’s tender hands

British Airways and Iberia's IAG Cargo moved 50 oil paintings belonging to the Fundación Guayasamín from Quito, Ecuador,to Madrid, Spain on October 2 for an exhibition in Cadiz. Appropriately, one of the pictures was Las Manos de la Ternura ('Tender Hands'), along with Los Amantes. The paintings weighed a total ... [+]

IAG static in tough six months

IAG Cargo, the business created by the merger of British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo, reported commercial revenue (flown revenue plus fuel surcharges) down 0.3% at €590 million in the first half of the year to 30 June 30. Freight tonne kilometres decreased by 1.8% while cargo capacity for the ... [+]

Precious cargo

Joint BA-Iberia carrier IAG Cargo and forwarder Pinnacle International Freight, have moved a Mid Infra Red Instrument (MIRI) – a key component of the James Webb Space Telescope from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, US. The James Webb Telescope – regarded ... [+]

Iberia to market Vueling space

IAG Cargo’s Iberia Cargo has signed an agreement to become Barcelona-based low-cost airline Vueling’s general sales agent for cargo and mail space for two years. Freight can be now be shipped from and to any of the 21 airports in Spain reached by Vueling as well as London and a ... [+]