The Ace of Amazon Air: Sarah Rhoads is the Air Cargo Executive of the Year

The flight deck of the U.S.S. Nimitz aircraft carrier measures a little more than 2.5 hectares. That may seem like a vast area to a person standing on the deck, but from the vantage point of a fighter aircraft, approaching at about 135 knots, the landing strip can look like a mere speck on an […]

• Randy Woods
• December 3, 2018

DHL Express launches daily route between CVG, YVR

Last week, DHL Express launched a new daily route between Vancouver, Canada (YVR) and its North American hub in Cincinnati (CVG), citing demand for services between Canada and the United States, The carrier said inbound and outbound volumes to Vancouver increased by 38 and 10 percent respectively since last year due to increased demand for […]

• Nina Chamlou
• November 6, 2018

Top 50 Airports: 10 fastest-growing air hubs

The title for fastest growth in the last year was No. 30, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG), which increased its throughput by 27.3 percent in 2017, to reach nearly 944,800 tonnes. As a further sign of the growing influence of Vietnam in global air cargo operations, Hanoi’s Noi Bai (No. 39) and Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan […]

• Randy Woods
• October 25, 2018

Amazon Air and DHL Express drive infrastructure development at CVG

Last week, Air Cargo World visited Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) to check out the changes underway at the fastest growing cargo hub in the United States, which, happens to be home to Amazon Air and DHL Express. Although DHL Express and Amazon Air operate as close partners today, largescale infrastructure investments allude to greater […]

• Nina Chamlou
• October 1, 2018

DHL Express talks peak season projections, trade wars

CINCINNATI – This week, DHL Express hosted a tour of its facilities near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG) – the “super hub” of DHL Americas. Air Cargo World toured its sorting facilities and sat down with DHL Express’ CEO of Americas, Mike Parra, to talk about the current trade climate, including protectionist policy and the logistics […]

• Nina Chamlou
• September 28, 2018

Amazon Air confirms 767 delivery schedule for 2018

SEATTLE – Today, at a special media event, Amazon Air confirmed the service-entry schedule for the remaining freighter-converted 767 freighters it has contracted New York-based Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWW) and Ohio-based Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) to operate on its behalf. Next week, Atlas Air will put three more aircraft into service for Amazon, […]

• Nina Chamlou
• September 4, 2018

E-commerce, express traffic continue to outpace general cargo growth in Q1

With first-quarter volume figures coming in for many airports around the world, we noticed two, in particular, stood out from the crowd: Leipzig Halle Airport (LEJ) in Eastern Germany, and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG) in the United States. Both of these mid-sized airports reported volumes up – way up – in Q1, reaching 12.3 percent and 34.1 percent […]

• Randy Woods
• April 23, 2018

Amazon adds 210 acres to future Cincinnati airport hub

Amazon’s senior vice president of operations, Dave Clark, announced last week that the Seattle-based retailer had just added a parcel of land to the site of its future air operations hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG), following last year’s plans to invest US$1.5 billion into the project. “Amazon Air [is] getting ready for take-off […]

• Lewis King
• January 17, 2018