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Virgin Atlantic Cargo has started a new weekly summer service from Belfast to Orlando, departing on Mondays. Exports from Northern Ireland are expected to include spare parts and machinery. The carrier already operates 17 flights from London Gatwick, Manchester and Glasgow.
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo is to launch a second daily service between London and Johannesburg from 28 October. The additional frequency will be operated by a Boeing 787-9 aircraft, which can carry up to 24 tonnes of cargo. In April, the carrier will open a local contact centre in Johannesburg. In ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo has become the first UK airline to approve the use of CSafe’s new RAP container for temperature-sensitive healthcare products.
Following its approval by the US Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency, the unit has now been approved by Virgin across its international network. The CSafe ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo have opened a new Pharma Zone at their joint facility at London Heathrow. Located at the Cargo Point facility, it is a fully segregated area dedicated to handling and storing pharmaceutical shipments within a strictly regulated temperature environment with dedicated active container storage.
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Following the appointment in June of David Geer as managing director, Virgin Atlantic Cargo has made two additions to its sales team. Ryan Ellis (pictured, left) takes up the position of head of global accounts while Ray Wood (right) joins the airline as regional sales manager for the UK. Ryan ...
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Virgin Atlantic cargo launched daily flights from Manchester to New York JFK at the end of May, in its existing five daily services to JFK from London Heathrow and its daily Heathrow-Newark service.
The launch of New York services from the north of England follows the introduction of three flights a ...
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Virgin Atlantic senior vice president of cargo for 30 years, John Lloyd, is to step down from his post in September to pursue other, as yet unnamed interests. In a statement, the carrier said it would “be sad to see John go”. He had built a strong team “with an ...
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Virgin Atlantic says its 12 new Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, announced at last month’s Farnborough Airshow, will increase lower deck cargo capacity by between 10% and 22% when they enter service from 2019. The new planes will also be 30% more fuel and carbon efficient than the Boeing 747-400s and Airbus ...
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Darren Sherlock has taken on the newly-created role of manager, products and partnerships at Virgin Atlantic Cargo. Having joined the airline in 2011 as a business change analyst, he was part of the team that developed Virgin Atlantic’s Cool Chain product in 2014. Virgin Atlantic Cargo is increasing its investment ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Steve Buckerfield as vice president sales. Starting his career with freight forwarder Emery Worldwide in 1984, he spent 14 years with American Airlines before becoming managing director of Walker Freight Services and later C.H. Robinson Worldwide (UK) following its acquisition of Walker in 2009. Prior ...
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