Horus From Egypt, joined Feb 2004, 5230 posts, RR: 66 Reply 1, posted (2 years 6 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 804 times:
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According to Business Egypt magazine they are interested in serving Abu Simbel Airport (ABS) in Egypt to transport agricultural goods from Toshka.
Also another article indicated they'd invest $40 million to develop a cargo village at Al-Alamein Airport (on the Mediterranean coast):
"The German carrier Lufthansa has expressed its interest in Al-Alamein airport as well. It recently revealed plans to invest in the cargo village project with a cold storage facility. Lufthansa is planning to allocate an estimated $40 million for the project, which would greatly enhance the airport's operations.
"We have an eye on cargo business in the Middle East, encouraged by the fact that the whole Middle East has only two cargo centres, in Sharjah and Dubai," explained Abdel Azeem. "We plan to establish a cargo hub with the help of Lufthansa on an area of nine square kilometres at Al-Alamein airport, which enjoys "easy access to Africa, the Middle East and Europe -- we are two hours only from European airports."" http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/745/ec10.htm
GoCOgo From United States, joined Jan 2005, 685 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (2 years 6 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 652 times:
Perhaps they can be convinced to reconsider CLE. They were once interested, but the idiots that used to run the airport chased them off. We now have (at least for now) new, intelligent, management.
I know, I know, us CLE people have crazy dreams...
"Why you fly is your business, how you fly is ours"
JohnClipper From Hong Kong SAR, PRC, joined Aug 2005, 308 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (2 years 6 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 545 times:
I don't see CLE being operated while they operate out of ILN. They moved CVG service to ILN for DHL and I think that is where their OH service will stay. CLE freight can be trucked to either ILN, DTW or ORD.
MasseyBrown From United States, joined Dec 2002, 3284 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (2 years 6 months 13 hours ago) and read 497 times:
Are CLE's current 9000 ft runways enough for a fully loaded MD-11 departure to Europe? I think the answer is no.
The extension of 6R/24L to 11,500 ft is supposed to cure this problem. The justification statement for the runway said the Cleveland region generates about 100 tons of European cargo daily, enough to support regular, if not daily flights.
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