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Poised for Growth in Africa Network News www.network-airline.com Network Aviation Group Newsletter managed A world of cargo Network Airline Management and Astral Aviation have signed a long-term wet lease with Air Atlanta Icelandic adding a factory- built, nose loader B747-400F to their existing managed fleet of three MD11Fs. This will enable NAM to develop their presence in Africa, and especially the Kenyan perishables market, adding capacity for flowers and vegetables from Nairobi to the UK. Andy Leslie, Group Chairman, says “We are excited to enter into this agreement with Astral Aviation and Air Atlanta Icelandic and look forward to a long and successful partnership enabling us to further expand our network.” Sanjeev Gadhia, Astral Aviation Founder and CEO, says, “The newly acquired B747-400F from Air Atlanta Icelandic will strengthen our position as a market-leader in perishable exports from Kenya to the UK market. Furthermore, the B747F will feed its intra-African network in Nairobi with cargo, which will be consolidated in its Liege hub originating from Europe and the US. The B747-400F made its inaugural flight from Stansted (STN) to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on Tuesday 7th November expanding NAM’s capacity to East Africa. The group expects to handle around 33,000 tonnes of perishable exports from East Africa to Europe per year. The nose-loader B747F will also enable the group to attract out-sized oil, gas and mining equipment for West and East Africa. Gadhia adds, “While most foreign carriers are reducing their capacity to Africa, Astral Aviation remains The newly acquired B747-400F from Air Atlanta Icelandic will strengthen our position as a market-leader in perishable exports from Kenya to the UK market. Network Airline Management and Astral Aviation Poised for Growth in Africa with Long-Term Lease of New 747-400F ‘cautiously optimistic’ of positive growth in perishable exports to Europe and a strong south-bound demand from Europe to West and East Africa, fuelled by the growth in consumer demand for e-commerce and oil and gas equipment due to the improved fuel-prices.” Baldvin M. Hermannsson, VP Sales and Marketing, Air Atlanta Icelandic, adds, “We are thrilled to start this new chapter in our wet leasing with our new, highly respected partners, Astral Aviation and NAM, and are pleased that our services and technology will further improve their offerings to the industry.” Network Aviation Group – Newsletter June 2018 1

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Network Airline Management and Astral Aviation have signed a long-term wet lease with Air Atlanta Icelandic adding a factory-built, nose loader B747-400F to their existing managed fleet of three MD11Fs.

This will enable NAM to develop their presence in Africa, and especially the Kenyan perishables market, adding capacity for flowers and vegetables from Nairobi to the UK.

Andy Leslie, Group Chairman, says “We are excited to enter into this agreement with Astral Aviation and Air Atlanta Icelandic and look

forward to a long and successful partnership enabling us to further expand our network.”

Sanjeev Gadhia, Astral Aviation Founder and CEO, says, “The newly acquired B747-400F from Air Atlanta Icelandic will strengthen our position as a market-leader in perishable exports from Kenya to the UK market. Furthermore, the B747F will feed its intra-African network in Nairobi with cargo, which will be consolidated in its Liege hub originating from Europe and the US.

The B747-400F made its inaugural flight from Stansted (STN) to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ( JKIA) in Nairobi on Tuesday 7th November expanding NAM’s capacity to East Africa. The group expects to handle around 33,000 tonnes of perishable exports from East Africa to Europe per year. The nose-loader B747F will also enable the group to attract out-sized oil, gas and mining equipment for West and East Africa.

Gadhia adds, “While most foreign carriers are reducing their capacity to Africa, Astral Aviation remains

The newly acquired B747-400F from Air Atlanta Icelandic will strengthen our position as a market-leader in perishable exports from Kenya to the UK market.

Network Airline Management and Astral Aviation Poised for Growth in Africa with

Long-Term Lease of New 747-400F

‘cautiously optimistic’ of positive growth in perishable exports to Europe and a strong south-bound demand from Europe to West and East Africa, fuelled by the growth in consumer demand for e-commerce and oil and gas equipment due to the improved fuel-prices.”

Baldvin M. Hermannsson, VP Sales and Marketing, Air Atlanta Icelandic, adds, “We are thrilled to start this new chapter in our wet leasing with our new, highly respected partners, Astral Aviation and NAM, and are pleased that our services and technology will further improve their offerings to the industry.”

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From November 2017, Network Airline Services (CDG office) extended its contractual territory with Amerijet International Inc. to include Malta.

Our customers in this country can now book their shipments on Amerijet’s flights through their local NAS office and these transactions will be managed and directed through our team in France.

ANA Aviation Services Ltd was also appointed as cargo GSA for Amerijet in Dubai, UAE, in January.

Network Airline Services and ANA Aviation Services Ltd are the GSA branches of the Network Aviation Group.

Florent Turlier, Group Business Development Manager for NAG, says, “Our global network of offices and knowledge of the Amerijet market were significant factors in us winning these important new contracts. In 2015, we were able to extend our agreement in France to include South Africa. We are truly proud of our long-standing relationship with Amerijet and look forward to expanding their presence in the

Network Cargo Management (NCM) is the GSA for the Avianca Cargo Brazil’s new direct passenger wide-body flight between New York (JFK) and Guarulhos (GRU).

NCM has been managing the cargo capacity of the flights from Miami for Avianca Brazil since June 2017.

Andy King, Group Sales Director, says, “We are very excited with the potential this offers. We have a long and successful partnership with Avianca and are proud to be their preferred GSA. Our highly experienced teams will ensure we provide the quality of service that Avianca needs to support the growth of their business.”

Middle East and Malta markets by representing these flights across all of our locations.”

Simon Pantin, Director of Global Network Development of Amerijet says, “We are very pleased with the quality of representation and the performance of Network Airline Services in both France and South Africa and are excited to have the group expand to represent us in Malta and Dubai. Network Airline Services and ANA Aviation are perfectly positioned to meet Amerijet’s needs and we look forward to building a stronger, more successful partnership with them.”

“Both companies also share the same vision: a focus on innovation, trust, and integrity, and the same mission: to ensure long-term profitable relationships with our customers and business partners”, added Florent Turlier.

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Network Airline Services (NAS) and

French airline Aigle Azur have announced

the launch of two new destinations—

Berlin Tegel (TXL) and Domodedovo

(DME)—from 1st December, 2017.

The airline is operating four flights per week

between TXL and Orly (ORY), the Aigle Azur Hub,

and two direct flights from ORY to DME (Friday

and Sunday). Cargo from Germany is trucked

to TXL to feed into the Aigle Azur network.

Florent Turlier, Group Business Development Manager for NAG, said, “NAS is the GSA for Aigle Azur in most of Europe. With Aigle Azur operating about 300 regular weekly flights to 20 destinations, we are thrilled to be further increasing the options we can offer to our customers.”

Sander van Vilsteren, Senior Commerical Manager, EMEA, who oversees the Aigle Azur product within the NAG Group, added, “This will now allow us to strengthen Aigle Azur’s position in the German market in offering direct services.”

Network Airline Services and Aigle Azur Offer New Destinations

In January, Network Airline Services (NAS) became the GSA for flydubai in Tanzania and is marketing cargo space from Kilimanjaro (JRO).

Andy King, Group Sales Director for NAS in East Africa, said, “We are offering about 50 tonnes of cargo

weekly from Kilimanjaro to the carrier’s hub in Dubai, with connections to more than 100 destinations in the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

“This new service provides exporters—particularly those with perishables—with reduced transit times into their markets.”

Network Airline Services GSA for flydubai in Tanzania

RwandAir is starting flights to Abuja in Nigeria and Cape Town in South Africa. It will operate four weekly flights from Kigali to Cape Town with a stopover in Harare.

The Abuja flight will also operate four times a week and be tagged to the existing Accra route, where the flight will stop in Abuja before heading to Accra.

Chance Ndagano Ag., CEO of RwandAir says, “This is another big milestone for RwandAir as we continue to expand our network.

Our aim is to provide our customers with seamless and better connections on the continent and beyond. Abuja and Cape Town come in as a boost to different economies in terms of tourism and trade on the one hand and enhance bilateral partnership between our countries on the other hand.”

About RwandAirIn 2017, RwandAir introduced flights from Kigali to Mumbai, Harare, London, Gatwick, Brussels and Dakar, as well as flights to Abidjan, Libreville and Brazzaville from its new hub in Cotonou.

RwandAir Starts Flights to Abuja and Cape Town

There is also a daily road feeder service from Toronto (YYZ) to YUL to connect freight to Tunisair flights ex YUL.

Paul Umpleby, Vice President Commercial the

Americas, said, “I am delighted to confirm this

partnership; it shows great potential and I look

forward to working with Tunisair to maximise

business opportunities.”

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USA Network Cargo has been appointed as GSA for Southwest Airlines in Puerto Vallarta (PVR) Los Cabos

(SJD) and Montego Bay in Jamaica. As an official partner, Network Cargo has committed to selling

cargo space on the airline’s flights.

Paul Umpleby, Vice President Commercial, the Americas, said, “We are thrilled to be supporting Southwest and appreciate the trust they have placed in Network Cargo.

“It provides us with fantastic opportunities for sales into the USA as Southwest has a very extensive route network within the country. We are looking forward to further growth between ourselves and Southwest.”

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From 1st April, Tunisair has appointed Network Cargo as its general sales agent (GSA) for services from Montréal (YUL) to Tunisia (TUN) with connections to Abidjan, Algiers, Bamako, Dakar, Istanbul, Jeddah, Marseille, Niamey, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou and Paris.

Network Airline Management Confirms Renewal of Long-Term Boeing 747-400 Freighter Lease with TAAG Angola Airlines

Network Airline Management and TAAG Angola Airlines—the national airline of Angola—have renewed their long-term freighter aircraft contract.

The Boeing 747-400F factory-built freighter with nose door— operated by Network Airline Management—carries up to 120,000 kilos of oil-related and general cargo and continues its weekly scheduled service from Liege, Belgium, to Luanda.

The agreement offers export capacity from

Angola back to Europe with forwarding connections worldwide and trucking connections from all over Europe into the Liege hub, as well as interlining facilities from North America, Asia and the Indian sub-continent.

Andy Walters, Commercial Director, said: “We are delighted that TAAG has renewed our contract. I am confident that our strong focus on service quality and value-added solutions have been a significant factor and we are looking forward to continuing our long and successful partnership.”

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From 1st–3rd November, 2017, Network Cargo joined over 4,000

delegates and around 124 companies under one roof at the Air & Sea Cargo

Americas event in Miami, USA.

Network Airline Services (NAS) and RwandAir recently delivered three kayaks for Kingfisher Journeys—a company that provides professionally guided kayaking and canoeing journeys on the lakes and rivers of Rwanda.

John Gilfeather, Sales Director, NAS, said, “ We always do our best to meet the specific requirements of our customers and this was no exception. But it was in fact quite a unique operation for us. Normally, such

long cargo does not fit onto a passenger aircraft but in this instance, we sent them direct to the aircraft and then hand loaded them to ensure their safe passage.”

Steve Venton, Director, Kingfisher Journeys, added, “After receiving a large order from an international tour operator for which we needed to urgently source additional kayaks, NAS and RwandAir went above and beyond to facilitate their safe delivery to us in Kagali. Without them meeting this unusual need, we would not have been able to service our client, so I am immensely grateful and now look forward to our future collaborations.”

After 16 years with the Paris sales team, Taramattee Vigneswaran, will be retiring at the end of June.

Florent Turlier, Group Business Development Manager, said, “Over the years, Tara has become a key element of NAS France. She is highly appreciated by our customers, airline partners and colleagues.

“It is a shame to see an experienced employee who has such a positive attitude leave our team. As a regular visitor to customers in Roissy Airport, Orly, Nantes, Strasbourg and Mulhouse, there is no question that Tara has earned her retirement and we wish her lots of happiness.”

CELEBRATING 17 YEARS WITH NETWORK AIRLINE SERVICESAt the end of March, Fred Smith, Operations and Security, retired from Network Airline Services after nearly two decades.

Fred joined Network Airline Services as Operations Manager in 2000 and has become a critical member of the team, not just at Heathrow, but within the company.

David Linford, General Manager, UK, said, “Fred has made an enormous contribution to our business during his time here. We are really grateful for his work and commitment. I know his absence will be sorely felt.”

In a message to his colleagues, Fred commented, “You have all played an integral role in my life with the company for the last 17 years, and it is a time I will long remember. I have come to see you all not only as colleagues, but as friends too and many thanks to you all for the

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The show brings together business leaders from aviation, maritime and logistics, and at this year’s event there was over 184 booths covering 76,360 square feet of exhibition and meeting space.

Andy King, Group Sales Director, said, “The show provides us with a great opportunity to share our latest news and showcase our tailormade solutions, and to increase our cargo growth and international business in the Americas.”

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Network Airline Services and RwandAir Deliver Kayaks to Lake Kivu

AFS Kenya is handling around 11,500 tonnes of cargo a year for NAS’ MD-11 and Boeing 747 freighter operations, which arrive in Nairobi from Liege, Belgium, carrying general cargo and then continue on to Doncaster Sheffield Airport in the UK with fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables for the UK and European consumer markets.

AFS Kenya, one of the largest cargo handlers in Kenya, operates a special facility in Nairobi to support customers moving perishable cargoes from Kenya. This includes 4,735 m2 of dedicated 2 degC–8 degC temperature-controlled storage and an ETV system with 172 ULD storage positions.

Andy King, Group Sales Director, says, “To meet extra demand, we have added a fourth weekly freighter service ex Nairobi and are pleased that AFS Kenya is partnering with us as part of our long-term expansion in the area.”

Gonzalo Jacob, Chief Executive of Africa Flight Services Kenya, commented, “NAS operates a very successful service to and from Kenya and provides an essential link to and from Europe for companies in and around Nairobi.”

Extended Contract with Africa Flight Services in KenyaNetwork Airline Services (NAS) recently signed a 2-year contract extension for Africa Flight Services (AFS Kenya) to provide cargo handling for NAS’ four freighter flights a week into Nairobi.

Tara Retires After 16 Years

good memories I will take with me.

“I am looking forward to the challenges that await me in my retirement, I hope they are many and varied. I will look back at my time with ANA/NAS and I will see a time well spent and a time with no regrets.

“Again, my thanks to you all, I wish you, your families and the company every success in the future.”

Fred has made an enormous contribution to our business during his time here. We are really grateful for his work and commitment. I know his absence will be sorely felt.”

Kicked off by a Mexican-themed lunch, each of the four teams is tasked with choosing a theme for their meal.

David Linford, General Manager, UK, said, “Each team is judged on performance based on appearance, textures,

taste, ambiance as well as a mark for overall effort.

“It’s a great way of bringing everyone in the office together and there’s a prize for the winning team, which we will announce at the end of the year.”

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Ben says, “We’ll be teeing off at 04:30 and expect the final putts to take place at around 21:30, so around 17 hours of golf, 20 miles of walking and 300 strokes from start to finish. No golf buggies are allowed, so for any golf enthusiast this is the ultimate test.”

Hever Castle Golf Club in Kent has kindly donated the use of the course for the day, which has saved £400 in green fees, so every penny donated goes straight to Macmillan.

Dan adds, “We are hoping to raise upwards of £1,500. The Longest Day Golf Challenge is a great way to support a really worthwhile cause and raise money for people affected by cancer.”

To donate, visit www.justgiving.com/ben-dan-nigel-golfday2018

Longest Day Golf ChallengeSupport Our HeroesOn 25th June, 2018, Ben Cashen, Operations, and Daniel Ellis, Customer Service, at our UK headquarters in Crawley, West Sussex, UK, will be fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support by embarking on a golfing challenge to play 72 holes in just one day.

Following their Bake Off competition in 2017, the Heathrow office launched their 2018 Food Festival in January.

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Between 16th January and 7th February in the run up to Valentine’s Day, Avianca Cargo transported 11,853 tonnes of flowers, including roses, gypsophila, carnations, hydrangeas and chrysanthemums from Bogota, Medellin and Quito around the world, to destinations including Los Angeles, Miami and San Juan de Puerto Rico.

The airline dedicated 190 regular and charter flights to the operation, registering a 4.35% growth in transported volume for the season, compared to the same period last year. Around 362 tonnes were

flown to Amsterdam, 198 tonnes to Los Angeles and 406 tonnes to other destinations such as Madrid, London, Brisbane, Sydney, El Salvador, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Toronto and New York.

Avianca Cargo’s General Director, Andres Osorio, said: “In addition to meeting our goals, we focused on guaranteeing service quality to our clients. We also met our itineraries and inaugurated the expansion of our warehouses at the Miami Airport to offer increased handling of cargo volumes at this station.”

AIRFREIGHT DEMAND ATTRACTS COMPETITIONMore transparency and access to airfreight data has created greater competition

and better technology in the cargo marketplace, writes Megan Ramsay

This makes for more transparency, which is better for competition in the marketplace, he says.

Upward trends Continual investment enables GSSAs to capitalise on growth in airfreight demand.

“Last year was a record year for AIA and the results saw tonnage output up 22% on 2016 and revenue up 17%,” Andrew outlines, noting that the company is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2018.

AIA is planning to open several new offices in Europe this year. Meanwhile, Poland — added to the AIA network in June 2017 — is doing well, with strong exports to markets like the US, Far East and Caribbean.

The company is also seeing high demand to China and Australia as well as Canada and New York.

AIA has just agreed with its partners to sell Spanish carriers Plus Ultra and Wamos in some of its European offices and Mozambique Airlines in the UK.

It has also signed El Al in Greece, offering daily services between Athens and Tel Aviv. Other deals are in the pipeline too.

Dawkins agrees that 2017 was “an exceptional year”. In his view, e-commerce has had a huge impact on the industry.

“In the medium - to long-term we don’t anticipate a slowdown. In retail, everyone wants products tomorrow, which means they will ship by air.”

Asian market Asia is seeing the biggest development, especially on routes from Southeast Asia into Europe. Many manufacturers are moving from China and India, although there is still growth there, to places like Vietnam, Dawkins says.

“Our business started in Europe; six years ago we took a strategic decision to invest

in Asia, where we’re seeing double-digit growth – even into the 20s in China, where the economy is moving away from manufacturing towards top-end consumables; it has evolved very quickly.

“There is more capacity in Asia and rates have fallen, so airlines are looking to us to fill the spare capacity.

“Low-cost carriers in the intra-Asia market don’t want to set up their own cargo department — they want to start generating cash straightaway, so outsourcing their cargo sales makes good commercial sense.”

Air Logistics Group is recognised as a Class A freight forwarder in China, as this is the only way it can operate as a GSA and ensures that it is fast to market.

As this market matures the company hopes that GSSAs will be recognised as standalone entities in China.

The company plans to have 100 offices by 2019 — its 25th anniversary. Dawkins notes that airlines launching a new route will look to their existing suppliers because contracts, bank guarantees and compliance are already in place, thereby reducing risk.

Multi-country contracts“More and more airlines are offering multi-country contracts – it just doesn’t make sense to have 60 GSSAs. So, the airlines have driven the consolidation that we see in the GSSA market today,” he considers.

Dawkins anticipates at least two big acquisitions for Air Logistics Group during 2018.

ECS Group is also looking at potential acquisitions to develop its network this year, especially in the large and complicated Chinese market, Thominet says.

Besides that, the company wants to expand its Latin American coverage beyond the six countries it currently serves there.

In Frankfurt, ATC Aviation Services chief executive Ingo Zimmer confirms that the company intends to open four new stations in South America, on top of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador – and Panama, added earlier this year.

Asia will be next — ATC already has stations in China and India — and the company also plans to add a second station in Africa — it is currently present in Johannesburg.

In late 2017, ATC signed up Air Cargo Global, and its client Royal Air Maroc started freighter operations at Frankfurt.

The GSSA lost some business when airberlin ceased operating, but on the plus side, Etihad started new freighter services to south Morocco.

Overall, Zimmer says tonnage in the European market was “up 10% for the first 11 months of 2017 — and our growth was 17% for that period”.

Drivers include e-commerce and demand for pharmaceuticals.

In light of this, ATC has invested in vertical sales, for instance taking on a dedicated pharma manager.

Balance According to Gilfeather: “Airlines want full planes but margins are key. It’s a case of balancing density versus cargo yield.

“For instance, on flights to the Middle East you can get a good payload; a full-passenger load plus 30 tonnes of cargo is fine.

“But in Asia there are payload restrictions. Traditionally, dense cargo would get a discounted rate – but you can provide only 20% of the space on the aircraft anyway because the payload on an 11 or 12-hour flight to somewhere like Chengdu is restricted, so there is no advantage in offering this.

“Therefore it’s better to target volumetric cargo – and you need experienced staff who understand this in order to get the best deal for the airline.”

As in the case of other GSSAs, Asia is a focus for NAS, especially China and Vietnam.

Added flights Elsewhere, one of NAS’s clients, Flydubai, added flights between Dubai and Kilimanjaro earlier this year.

NAS represents the carrier in most of Europe already and this relationship is growing, Gilfeather says. From Africa, perishables comprise a large part of the cargo.

Finally: “In the last quarter of 2017, capacity out of the UK and the weak pound led to forwarders in Europe using the UK as a virtual air cargo hub so there’s been real growth – up 30%-50% in some cases,” Gilfeather says. “But this is cargo that’s been trucked from Europe to the UK and then flown.”

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NAG Introduces New Corporate AdvertisementsNAG has recently produced two new advertisements for Network Airline Services and Network Cargo, which aim to highlight our global network of offices and expertise.

Congratulations to Anthony Fernandes de Castro who has recently been promoted to Sales Executive in our CDG office. Anthony joined Network Airline Services in November 2014 as Export Supervisor, before which he

Network Airline Services Welcomes New Sales Executive

Andy King, Group Sales Director, said, “Network Cargo offers the widest coverage of North America, and our new advert is aimed at promoting this, as well as our products and excellent customer service.”

John Gilfeather, Sales Director, added, “Our NAS advert highlights to airlines that we are a global organisation with a lot of experience and a worldwide presence, so people take a closer look at us and what we offer.”

When selecting a GSSA, today’s airlines are looking for partners that can deliver more than just a sales service as airfreight demand soars.

So says Stephen Dawkins, chief operating officer at Air Logistics Group: “A GSSA has to listen to the clients’ needs and invest in what the client wants. Airlines see that and understand that we want a long-term partnership.”

Carriers focus largely on their passenger business, he adds; given that airfreight demand fluctuates, cargo is among the areas they may choose to outsource, benefiting from a flexible cost base rather than fixed overheads.

A GSSA’s core duty is to sell cargo space on behalf of its client airlines – but that’s not enough. Adrien Thominet, chief executive of ECS Group, says that today’s carriers have more needs in terms of services.

Air Logistics Group, for instance, spends “substantial sums” on trucking. The ability to offer road feeder services enables the company to help smaller airlines, Dawkins says.

Another key area is back office services – IT. “Airlines want to see how much revenue a flight has generated before it takes off,” Dawkins says.

Different companies are coming up with their own IT solutions. ECS now offers Cargo Vision, a new in-house system acquired through its purchase of North America’s Exp-Air Cargo last year.

held positions with CEVA and British Airways.

Anthony said, “I am looking forward to being part of our sales team and hope that my experience so far will support our customers’ and the company’s growth.”

Direct accessClient airlines have immediate, direct access to the system to check the revenue on a given flight.

ATC Aviation is rolling out a new cargo operating system, starting with its US offices before extending to Europe and elsewhere.

The system, which replaces a Windows-based solution, is e-AWB compatible and covers end-to-end operational and reservation management, including financial management.

Airbridge International Agencies (AIA) is also looking at ways to integrate more IT products “to help streamline our customer service and give clients one-touch solutions”, according to chief executive Mark Andrew.

“Our online booking portal is just one of many ways we are looking to achieve this.”

AIA Cargo implemented the first stage of its new portal — partnering with Champ’s Traxon cargoWEB+ system — in December last year.

John Gilfeather, sales director at Network Airline Services (NAS), part of Network Aviation Group, points out that online pricing platforms, such as freight rate management solution WebCargo, are gaining ground.

“In years gone by relationships were between forwarders and airlines, and the airlines each communicated their prices in their own way. But now the forwarders all have access to the same data in the same format.”

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John Gilfeather, Sales Director, says, “The Legion spends nearly £1.6million a week delivering health and welfare support. They offer everything from bereavement counselling for families of those who have been killed in action, to helping those who have been injured get compensation and helping servicemen returning to civilian life.”

Last year, Air Malta raised a total of €29,000 towards the relief and welfare of Maltese and British ex-service men and women.

“We are delighted to support causes such as the Poppy Appeal, which helps raise awareness and funds for people who have sacrificed so much,” says John Vella, Air Malta’s Head of Cargo Sales & Marketing.

Network Airline Services and Air Malta Support the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal

Network Cargo and Avianca Cargo Take Off from the Dominican Republic

Network Cargo chose the Colombian Embassy as the venue to host an event promoting Avianca Cargo services from and to Santo Domingo (SDQ) and Punta Cana (PUJ), specifically the new wide-body operation that began on March 22, 2018.

Javier Gonzalez, Sales Director for US SE , LATAM and CARIBBEAN, said, “It was a great opportunity to introduce Network Cargo to carriers as a GSA in the Dominican Republic and promote our connectivity from the island to Europe and Latin America, as well

In November, Network Airline Services and Air Malta assisted the Royal British Legion by carrying a shipment of red poppies and other memorabilia onboard one of their operating aircraft from London to Malta.

as highlight Avianca’s commitment to creating a cargo hub in the country.

“We are confident we will exceed all Avianca’s expectations. With their recent announcement to expand operations in the Caribbean, Network Cargo will continue to work closely to help them achieve their goals. This includes a freight operation, which will commence in August.”

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