Following Virgin Atlantic's announcement of 600 more lob losses on top of 600 earlier this year, British Airways will make redundant 3,700 employees in the next 12 months.

The British government has abandoned plans to sell 30 percent of Royal Mail to TNT Post.

Global logistics provider Aramex has signed an express cargo handling agreement with Air Arabia, the low-cost airline based in Sharjah, UAE.

In the latest round of cargo price fixing trials that has cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars, The Canadian Competition Bureau (CCB) has fined Air France, KLM and Martinair Can$10 million.

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering was the first to charter Lan Chile’s new B777 freighter with the movement of 18 tonnes of generator equipment from Toronto to Havana on behalf of Rohde & Liesenfeld.

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Association of Airport Executives and the International Association of Airport Executives to enhance training services in the Middle East and Gulf region.

Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were on hand to mark the recent groundbreaking of the Middle East’s first universal museum - Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and due for completion by 2013.

Following the recent roll-out of the first Airbus built in China, DHL has opened a new hub in Shanghai, part of a $25 million investment in a domestic road network.

South Korea plans to invest $3.1 billion by 2015 to expand Incheon International Airport, the country's land ministry says.

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has begun a scheduled 747 freighter service linking Milan with Moscow.