Air Freight
Air transport is a major component of the express freight and courier markets.
The advantages of air transport are fast transit times and high quality of service. It is particularly suited to urgent shipments such as medical equipment, newspapers and vital spare parts, its transit times and reliability of service also has advantages for transporting commodities such as cut flowers, livestock, foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals
The Air freight industry falls into two main groups:
- Passenger airlines whose operations include air cargo on local and international services.
- Dedicated cargo operators (freighters) who use a combination of their own aircraft and buy space on local and international passenger airlines at a wholesale level.
Air express freight companies provide domestic air freight services by utilising their own cargo (freighter) aircraft and cargo capacity on most passenger aircraft. They provide the cargo terminal operations required to accept deliveries from domestic and international freight forwarders, check weights, prepare aircraft load plans and deliver containers to aircraft side for loading onto aircraft for the domestic and international freight services of some passenger airlines.
Latest Air Freight News
Air freight volumes fall in June
The latest data released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), shows that air freight volumes fell for an eighth consecutive month in June, amid business uncertainty and the ongoing trade tensions between China and the United States.IATA...
Final layer of Brisbane’s new runway set to go down
The construction of Brisbane’s new runway (BNR) has reached a critical milestone, with the application of asphalt - the final layer of the runway’s pavement – commencing today. Fulton Hogan has been subcontracted by Skyway to produce a specially-designed...
Federal Government grants funding to regional airports
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, The Hon Michael McCormack, has announced that the federal government will pledge $100 million in funding for regional airports to undertake essential airport...