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Quiqup (pronounced quick-up) is a Dubai-based logistics company that provides last-mile e-commerce delivery services throughout the UAE. [1] As of June 2022, the company had over 100 employees across the globe, and over 200 drivers in its fleet in the UAE. The company currently operates in the United Arab Emirates.
UPS Airlines Flight 6 was a scheduled international cargo flight operated by UPS. On September 3, 2010, the Boeing 747-400F flying the route between Dubai , United Arab Emirates, and Cologne , Germany, developed an in-flight fire , which caused the aircraft to crash, killing both crew members, the only people on board.
Aramex is an Emirati (Jordanian Origin) multinational logistics, courier and package delivery company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [2] The company was founded by Fadi Ghandour and Bill Kingson in 1982 in Amman, Jordan. [2] [3] [4] It is the first Arab-based company to be listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
FedEx supplied an MD-11 and a leased 747 for the flight test phase. FedEx Express became the first air carrier to deploy the Guardian on a commercial flight in September 2006, when it equipped an MD-11 freighter with the pod. [93] [94] By December 2007, the company had nine aircraft equipped with the system for further testing and evaluation. [95]
This first airmail flight was piloted by Henri Pequet, who flew 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km (8.1 mi), from Allahabad to Naini—the nearest station on the Bombay-Calcutta line to the exhibition. The aircraft used was a Humber-Sommer biplane with about fifty horsepower (37 kW), and it made the journey in thirteen minutes.
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The world's first official airmail flight came the next day, at a large exhibition in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India. The organizer of the aviation display, Sir Walter Windham , was able to secure permission from the postmaster general in India to operate an airmail service in order to generate publicity for the exhibition ...
Air India Cargo was set up in 1932, [1] [2] [3] and started its freighter operations with a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, giving Air India the distinction of being the first Asian airline to operate freighters. Between the 1980s and 1990s it operated Boeing 747 and Douglas DC-8 freighter aircraft on various international routes through other companies.