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Ukraine International Airlines has extended its 16-year working partnership with European Cargo Services with the awarding of a new GSA contract to provide sales representation for the airline across Europe and beyond.

Despite the financial crisis hitting hard at Iceland, the country's low-cost airline Iceland Express is planning to add new business.

Sweden's Skavsta Airport, near Stockholm, has decided to close down all airfreight activities.

Turkish Airlines has extended the deadline for Boeing and Airbus to present offers for a total of 105 new aircraft.

The government of the Omsk region and Russia's Rosaviatsiya have agreed on the terms for finalising the construction of Omsk Fedorovka Airport, long overdue.

Finnair has pulled out from Guangzhou after three years of operations.

Norway's Sandefjord Airport Torp, near Oslo, has opened 2009 with a new airline customer from Ukraine.

Jan 5, 2009 (newstodate): Aeroflot Cargo ended the year 2008 with withdrawal of the last remaining D-10-40 freighers.

Year 2008 ended with a a 4.8 percent decline in full-year cargo volumes at Denmark's Billund Airport.

Moscow Vnukovo Airport has added Mahe, Seychelles, as it latest new international destination.

Effective from January 2, 2009, Keflavik Airport Ltd has assumed combined operation of the Keflavik Airport Authority and the Leif Ericsson Air Terminal Ltd.

The world has been taken by storm with Swine Flu, with cases growing by the day its turning from an epedemic into a pandemic.  Could this affect international transport by air and air travel?  As Swine flu continued to take lives in Mexico and other parts of the world, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said it has greatly affected the aviation industry and its timing could not have been worse.

Ukrainean carriers Ukraine International Airlines and Dnepravia have decided to cooperate.

At the very end of 2008, Airbus managed to meet its full-year Airbus A380 delivery target.

Qantas today announced that, due to a rapid and significant deterioration of trading conditions in the past few weeks it is revising its 2008/2009 full year profit before tax (PBT)outlook downwards from around $500 million to between $100 million and $200 million. The profit forecast range is subject to no further changes in market conditions, fuel prices, and volatility in hedge accounting results.