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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. List of cargo airlines - Wikipedia

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    Air India Cargo; Aryan Cargo Express; Crescent Air Cargo; Deccan 360; Elbee Airlines; Hinduja Cargo Services Indonesia. Megantara Air Iran. Fars Air Qeshm Japan. ANA & JP Express; Orange Cargo Kazakhstan. Almaty Aviation Malaysia. Transmile Air Services Philippines. Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines Singapore. Jett8 Airlines Vietnam. Trai Thien ...

  5. 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.

  6. Lynn Rippelmeyer - Wikipedia

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    Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first woman to fly the Boeing 747, the first woman to captain a 747 trans-oceanic, part of the first all-female crew, and first flight attendant to become an airline pilot. In retirement, she authored two books to chronicle her aviation journey - Life Takes Wings and Life Takes Flight and founded the nonprofit, ROSE ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. iAero Airways - Wikipedia

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    iAero Airways, previously named Swift Air, was an American charter airline based in Greensboro, North Carolina with its main hub at Miami International Airport. [3] The airline announced that it would cease all operations on April 6, 2024, after failed restructuring efforts during bankruptcy proceedings.

  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]