UK's CargoLogicAir ends B747-8(F) ops ch-aviation PRO exclusive

British subsidiary of the Volga-Dnepr Group, CargoLogicAir (P3, London Stansted), has announced that it will retire two of its four B747 freighters in 2020, responding to the slump in the global cargo market, Air Cargo News has reported.

According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, the airline currently operates three B747-400(F)s and one B747-8(F). It is unclear which of these will be retired. CargoLogicAir did not respond to ch-aviation's request for clarification.

The airline added that its aim continues to be growth in the future.

As of November 1, 2019, the British cargo specialist cancelled its scheduled flights from Frankfurt Int'l to Chicago O'Hare, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson, and Oslo Gardermoen, and from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Hong Kong Int'l.

CargoLogicAir's Russian sister carrier Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VI, Ulyanovsk Vostochny) recently said it will mothball some of its An-124s and implement a job cuts programme to stem losses.

Russia's AirBridgeCargo (RU, Ulyanovsk Vostochny) and its UK partner CargoLogicAir (P3, London Stansted) will cancel a total of eleven freighter connections as of November 1, the logistics newspapers DVZ and Air Cargo News have reported.

Six of the routes are operated by AirBridgeCargo, five by CargoLogicAir. Four will be axed from Moscow Sheremetyevo, including three operated by AirBridgeCargo to Dhaka via Shanghai Pudong; to Seoul Incheon via Tokyo Narita; and to Beijing Capital; and one by CargoLogicAir to Hong Kong Int'l.

Four more will be axed from Frankfurt Int'l, to Chicago O'Hare, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson, Chicago via Atlanta, and Oslo Gardermoen, as well as routes from both Munich and Liège to Moscow Sheremetyevo.

Three further routes operated by AirBridgeCargo will be re-routed. A connection from Munich to Moscow Sheremetyevo will be replaced by Los Angeles Int'l-Frankfurt-Moscow; Amsterdam Schiphol to Moscow via Munich will be replaced by Amsterdam-Moscow direct; and Leipzig/Halle to Moscow via Paris CDG will...