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its cargo and air mail sales and services. Early this year the carrier introduced a direct weekly B747-200 freighter service between Houston and Dammam and Jeddah. Reports show that there is a strong market for air cargo service on these routes. The carrier has international air freight coverage of more than 250 destinations and cargo collection hubs at key airports in Brussels, New York and Hong Kong.
The carrier is also technologically updated as it houses temperature-controlled facilities for perishables, warehouses for dangerous goods, vaults for valuables and automated loading and off-loading equipments. The automated cargo system (SCAN) through its 24-hour cargo control centre links its major cargo hubs with other international airports and controls all aspects of sales, operations and services.

Saudi Arabian Airlines began with one DC-3 aircraft and is now the biggest carrier in the Middle East. SAA Cargo, the airfreight division of the kingdom’s flag carrier, considered a premium class carrier, flies from Jedah, Riyadh and Dammam to destinations in Europe, the US, the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent, Far East and Africa.
Over the years the cargo division of the

airline has developed in size and structure. Its fleet consists of modern dedicated freighters; four MD-11Fs, a nose-loading B747-200 and widebody aircraft comprising B747-400s, B777s, A300-600s and MD-90s.
The carrier has a network of scheduled services to 26 domestic stations and 57 global destinations. The carrier has achieved the ISO 9001-2000 standard for

37th Annual General Meeting of AACO in Amman

Swiss WorldCargo adds significant capacity

Commencing 31st October 2004, Swiss WorldCargo plans to add more value to its cargo services to and from Istanbul and Karachi through an ACMI Agreement with MNG airlines, one of the world's leading operators of scheduled full freighter services. A deal in collaboration with MNG airlines will assist Swiss WorldCargo with wider marketing access to and from Karachi and Istanbul.
MNG's Airbus A300-200 B4 F that fly three times a week, will connect Switzerland with a Zurich (ZRH) to Istanbul (IST) and a Zurich to Karachi (KHI) service, enabling Swiss WorldCargo to offer a capacity of 44 tons per flight. The capacity includes 14 main deck and 4 lower deck positions plus 4 LD11 lower deck pallets. Swiss WorldCargo will be able to offer its whole product portfolio on these flights, which includes shipments of Swiss Valuables, Swiss X-Presso and Swiss X-Presso XL, Swiss Mail and Swiss Perishables including Envirotainer containers as well as Swiss General Cargo shipments of even main deck fit.
All the flights will be operated by MNG airlines. Swiss WorldCargo will undertake booking and cargo handling functions for the additional Swiss WorldCargo capacity and all reservations will be registered under the LX coding (Swiss International AirLines).

The 37th Annual General Meeting of the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) began Oct. 4, 2004, at the Mövenpick Hotel, Dead Sea. The meeting was hosted by Royal Jordanian and was attended by 250 participants, presidents and CEOs of 17 Arab airlines, and special delegations representing their airlines.
Director General and CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Giovanni Bisignani, directors of Arab, African and European civil aviation organizations, aircraft manufacturers, and speakers specialized in the air transport industry from well-known, international universities attended the event.
President and CEO of Royal Jordanian Samer Majali and Secretary General of AACO Abdul Wahab Teffaha spoke at the opening ceremony. On Oct. 5, 2004, the meeting sessions

tackled several commercial, technical, financial and managerial issues related to Arab airlines, and discussed the means of activating collaboration and integration among these airlines, in view of the sharp competition, open skies policies, and the huge international airlines’ trend to merge.
More importantly, the annual meeting dealt with the report of the AACO executive committee. The report included a number of recommendations concerning important strategic issues, such as the open skies policy in the Arab world, future relations with Europe and furthering collaboration between Arab airlines. Matters relating to negotiation of international automatic reservation systems providers, online reservations, electronic ticketing that aim at boosting collaboration in ground handling and fuel purchase were also discussed.