Air Zimbabwe to launch Bulawayo service June 16 will see the launch by Air Zimbabwe of a Johannesburg- Bulawayo service. “It’s an exciting new development for us – the first time that Bulawayo has been served from Johannesburg,” said Gerd von Mansberg, country manager of general sales agents ATC Aviation. A 50-seater Embraer ERJ 145 will be deployed on the route, capable of 5 tons uplift. New hub could force Heathrow closure London Heathrow Airport will need to close if the UK government decides to build a new estuary airport or to make Gatwick the UK’s major hub, according to a transport think tank. The Independent Transport Commission (ITC) said that the UK needed a major capacity airport to compete with European continental rivals and that the closure of Heathrow would be needed to convince investors that carriers would move to the new hub. AirwiseNews.com Brazil’s airports squeezed Without major investments in Brazil’s air-travel capacity over the next two years, competition between airlines at the country’s eight largest airports will be near impossible, a member of Brazil’s antitrust regulator, Cade, said. CargoNews Asia. SIA parks another freighter The cargo arm of Singapore Airlines will store a second Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft as a result of continued over-capacity in the air cargo market. The aircraft will be parked at Victorville, California from June 2013 until May 2014, leaving SIA Cargo with 11 B747-400s. Reuters.
