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Ground services for air freight: Opportunities & obstacles in e-commerce

DELMIA Quintiq

It would seem that the aviation industry is doing just fine, thank you. I decided to attend because one of the topics on the agenda was the impact of e-commerce on the air freight business. While a number of dedicated freighters is slowly increasing, every new passenger plane also brings cargo capacities below the deck.

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The decrease of air freight, an opportunity for commercial airlines?

KEPLER Consulting

Indeed, close to 70% of world air freight (in TKM) is transported in cargo decks of commercial aircrafts. Cargo decks of commercial planes are becoming an additional source of revenue to leverage. (2). Contrary to public opinion, the decline in traffic affects both commercial airlines and all-cargo airlines.

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When You Trust Computers More Than Yourself

Talking Logistics

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a report last November on how flight deck automation is affecting flight path management. Last summer’s crash of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco is the most recent example. This is a lesson airline pilots, for example, are learning the hard way.

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What supply chain can learn from airline flight delays

Elementum

Delays and canceled flights have become routine enough that smart travelers have begun to simply plan ahead for them. Working together in the “moving” business, air travel and the supply chain have a lot in common in terms of operational dynamics, and their demand-planning issues have begun to reflect one another.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Biden administration is expected to soon issue a strategy for placing charging infrastructure for electric freight trucks in strategic and busy corridors. Hundreds of vessels have diverted to longer routes, resulting in delivery delays, higher transportation costs and economic wreckage for local communities.