Airlines Banning Certain “Smart Bags” as Checked Luggage Atlanta (Forbes) - Major U.S. carriers are moving to ban smart luggage from all aircraft. On Friday, American Airlines announced that "as part of safety management and risk mitigation," the carrier would ban any bag with an integrated lithium-ion battery starting on January 15th. Alaska Airlines and Delta
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FedEx and UPS Surge as Investors Pick Winners From Tax Overhaul
New York (Bloomberg) - FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. surged the most in more than a year on expectations that they’ll reap particularly big gains from the tax-overhaul package making its way through Congress. The bills passed by the House and the Senate cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent
New York City tackles its ‘sagging’ air cargo industry
JFK airport, New York New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) handled more cargo than any other airport globally until 1990. A quarter of a century later, JFK’s ranking has fallen to 22nd globally, according to Air Cargo World’s, “Top 50 Cargo Airports” ranking. Yesterday, the city’s Committee on Economic Development held hearings
New DHL Global Forwarding platform simplifies global airfreight for shippers
With so many new, tech-savvy forwarders setting up online, real-time booking systems for air cargo, it was only a matter of time before the big integrators got into the act. The latest is the launch of DHL Global Forwarding’s (DHL-GF) Online Freight Quotation & Booking, allowing shippers to quote and
Germany: Suspicious package part of extort plot aimed at DHL
Brandenburg state Interior Minister Karl-Heinz Schroeter is surrounded by media during a news conference in Potsdam, eastern Germany, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. German authorities said the suspicious package containing nails that led to a bomb scare on a Christmas market in Potsdam was part of a blackmailing plot against a delivery
Fiat Chrysler CEO says in talks with Hyundai on tech partnership
ARESE, Italy (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is in talks with South Korea’s Hyundai about a technical partnership, but there are no merger talks between the two, FCA Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said on Saturday. FCA is often the subject of merger speculation, especially after its unsuccessful 2015 attempt to tie
Postal regulators move to let stamp prices jump higher
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to bolster the ailing U.S. Postal Service, federal regulators moved on Friday to allow bigger jumps to stamp prices beyond the rate of inflation, a move that could eventually add millions more dollars to companies’ shipping rates and consumer costs. The Postal Regulatory Commission announced the decision
After FedEx Amazon’s Prime Air is next in line for the new Cessna SkyCourier 408
Amazon Prime plane Amazon.com’s Prime Air carrier could be a potential customer for Cessna manufacturer Textron, Inc., the head of the company’s aviation business told CNBC yesterday. “We see the whole freight industry as something that is going to double in the next 15 years, so we are investing in that
American Airlines pilots given too much Christmas holiday
American Airlines Fleet LAX All American Airlines wants for Christmas is… some pilots. It has been revealed that an estimated 15,000 of the company's flights scheduled to run over the festive period do not have an assigned pilot due to a computer glitch. The software error gave time off to too many pilots
