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  2. Seaboard World Airlines - Wikipedia

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    A Boeing 747-200F at the New York John F. Kennedy Airport in 1977.. Seaboard World Airlines was an international all-cargo airline based in the United States.It was certificated as the first US transatlantic scheduled cargo airline in 1955 by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now defunct federal agency that, from 1938 to 1978, tightly regulated almost all US commercial air transportation.

  3. Flight tracking - Wikipedia

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    Flight tracking enables travellers as well as those picking up travellers after a flight to know whether a flight has landed or is on schedule, for example to determine whether it is time to go to the airport. Aircraft carry ADS-B transponders, which transmit information such as the aircraft ID, GPS position, and altitude as radio signals.

  4. Air cargo - Wikipedia

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    A FedEx Boeing 777, a UPS Boeing 747-400, and a DHL tail cargo planes at Cologne Bonn Airport in 2016. The rise of internet in the years that followed contributed to increase the reliability and accessibility to the air cargo industry. Most airlines now offer to their customers real-time flight status and the booking and tracking options.

  5. Cargo airline - Wikipedia

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    A Boeing 777F of FedEx Express, which is the largest cargo airline in the world. Unit load device LD3 containers being loaded into the belly cargo hold of a Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft A Boeing 747-400F of Cargolux. Cargo airlines (or air freight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of ...

  6. Maersk Air Cargo - Wikipedia

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    Until 1987 the rules in Denmark only permitted SAS to operate freight charters. The only exception was if the entire shipment had a single sender and recipient. This made filling an entire cargo plane uneconomical and resulted in Maersk abandoning its cargo plans. [3] Maersk Air Cargo was founded in 1982, but only acted as a cargo division.

  7. Singapore Airlines Cargo - Wikipedia

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    Singapore Airlines Cargo (abbreviation: SIA Cargo) is the unit within Singapore Airlines (SIA) responsible for air cargo operations. It was incorporated in 1988. [2] SIA Cargo manages the cargo operations of SIA's fleet of freight- and passenger aircraft. Its main office is on the fifth floor of the SATS Airfreight Terminal 5 at Singapore ...

  8. Aerotranscargo - Wikipedia

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    Established in 2012, it operates chartered cargo flights using a fleet of Boeing 747-400F freighters. In 2020, Aerotranscargo added two more 747-400F aircraft, expanding its fleet to six. [2] [3] In 2021, a seventh 747-400F was purchased from Thai Airways.

  9. Mas Air - Wikipedia

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    The airline was established as Mas Air in 1992 and started operations in April of the same year, providing air cargo services to clients principally in Latin America and the United States, operating over 600 flights that move nearly 60,000 tons of air cargo annually. [3] In December 2000, LAN Airlines purchased a 25% stake in Mas Air. [4]