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Emirates adds Edinburgh and Stansted

Emirates SkyCargo has added two new UK destinations to its network from Dubai – Edinburgh and  London Stansted , bringing its total destinations in the country to eight. The two new daily 777-300ER-operated passenger servicess, with around 20 tonnes cargo capacity per flight, add around 500 tonnes to the carrier’s 2,000 –tonne capacity in the UK market. Emirates is one of the top three international air cargo carriers in the UK ... [+]

Emirates to fly Stansted-Dubai in 2018

Emirates is to launch a daily Boeing 777-300ER service from London Stansted to Dubai on 8 June 2018, the first Middle Eastern carrier to operate out of the airport. Outbound, flight EK33 will depart Dubai at 09:30, and will arrive in London Stansted at 14:10, returning as EK34 at 21:10 ... [+]

Stansted in the space age

Stansted airport recently took delivery of a spacecraft payload module when it arrived from Moscow on board one of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ IL76 freighters. The module and three tons of support equipment was flown from Sheremetyevo Airport to Essex in a move organised by DG Terminal. During the flight, a specific temperature was ... [+]

New Guangzhou-Stansted freighter

China Southern Cargo has launched a new 777 freighter. Since 20JUN15, the airline added new service between Guangzhou and London Stansted. It will initially operate twice-weekly but a third service will be added from 23 July. The return service is via Frankfurt. There is also a thour times a week ... [+]

Qatar to send freighters to Stansted

Qatar Airways Cargo is to start freighter services London Stansted from 2 May. The Essex gateway will be served by five weekly Boeing 777F services from Doha. [+]

UPDATED: New runways for Heathrow and Gatwick on Davies’ shortlist

The Davies Commission on airport capacity in the south-east of England has shortlisted a third runway for Heathrow and a second for Gatwick as possible options, but has not come out decisevly in favour of a scheme for a new island airport in the Thames Estuary. It says that further ... [+]

Keep night flights, urges CBI

The CBI urged the Government to maintain night flights at London's three main airports - Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted – in its response to a Department for Transport consultation which closed on 21 April. It said that night flights play a key role in aviation and generate millions of pounds ... [+]

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