Alaska Airlines taps PrimeFlight to provide cargo service in London

Alaska Airlines has selected PrimeFlight Aviation Services to grip cargo for the bearer astatine London Heathrow International Airport up of the May 21 motorboat of regular nonstop widebody work from Seattle to London.

Alaska Airlines (NYSE: ALK) volition transportation cargo to London successful the bellyhold of Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner craft inherited successful the acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines. Alaska began work betwixt its Seattle hub and Tokyo and Seoul, South Korea past year, marking the company’s introduction into long-haul planetary flying, and this outpouring volition besides adhd work from Seattle to Rome.

PrimeFlight Aviation Services said successful a quality merchandise connected Friday that it volition load and unload Alaska aircraft, physique and breakdown pallets, and person crushed shipments from freight forwarders.

PrimeFlight has a pre-existing narration with Alaska Air, providing cargo enactment services astatine airports successful Columbus, Ohio; Milwaukee; Omaha, Nebraska; Ontario, California; San Francisco; and Orange Country, California. The February acquisition of hose caterer GAT besides means PrimeFlight serves Alaska Air connected the rider broadside astatine 11 home airports.

“This assignment represents different important milestone successful the continued maturation of our cargo division, reflecting the expanding assurance airlines spot successful PrimeFlight’s operational capability, work quality, and customer-focused transportation model,” said Sascha von Wolfersdorf, vice president of operations for PrimeFlight’s Europe operations. “Our cargo cognition astatine LHR continues to expand, supported by ongoing concern successful people, instrumentality and infrastructure to conscionable the demands of our cargo customers.”

PrimeFlight besides has crushed handling operations successful Italy. It entered the European marketplace done the 2025 acquisition of Airworld. It besides picked up an aerial instrumentality attraction and compartment attraction concern astatine London Heathrow and Frankfurt airdrome successful Germany past year.

In related news, Alliance Ground International, the largest American-owned cargo handling cause for airlines, has a caller owner.

Lone Star Funds, based successful London, announced past week that it has acquired Miami-based AGI from backstage equity firms Audax Group and Greenbrier Equity Group. AGI provides cargo, crushed and message handling, information and hospitality services astatine much than 60 airports successful the United States and Canada, and employs much than 12,000 people.

“We are excited to spouse with the AGI absorption squad to thrust the concern forward,” said Lone Star CEO Donald Quintin. “The institution has a superior work offering and a way grounds of occurrence crossed its integrated operations. We spot opportunities to proceed to put successful the concern and its radical to proceed to turn its capabilities and guarantee it remains best-in-class successful delivering for the aviation industry.”