Air Cargo World News

Despite a 15 percent, year-over-year, decline in Asian freight traffic, Schiphol Airport’s first-quarter numbers only dropped modestly from 2011. The Amsterdam airport handled 358,220 tonnes of cargo during the first three months of 2012, a 3-percent, year-over-year, loss. read more

Last week, U.S. Representatives Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.) and Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 4350, the “Safe Skies Act of 2012,” in Congress. The bipartisan legislation extends pilot rest requirements to cargo pilots — a concept endorsed by leading associations, including the Independent Pilots Association and the Air Line Pilots Association. read more

FedEx transported a 5-week-old, orphaned sea otter from the carrier’s Anchorage, Alaska, hub, to Pittsburgh, via Memphis, on April 19. The shipment, which required the coordination of Pittsburgh Zoo personnel and FedEx Ground transportation staff, was performed on an MD-11 aircraft. read more

After days of rumors about an impending merger between US Airways and American Airlines, three unions representing American workers have come out in support of the idea. The Allied Pilots Association, the Transport Workers Union and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants have all reached conditional labor agreements with US Airways officials. read more