Air Freight I:Air Cargo and Capacity

Dr Narudh Cheramakara

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZu_gxi3sbs• CNBC FEDEX/UPS• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAOS5OHuoxk• UPS• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOKywkfIALc• DHL • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh5U-w_9NuI• LH Cargo• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqJgIpICbfA• LH Air cargo history

Air Cargo 2014 (Source: IATA)• 51.4 million tonnes carried• Valued at 6.8 trillion USD

Glossary:FTK – Freight Tonne Kilometres. The equivalent of RPK for freight. One FTK is one metric tonne of revenue load, carried one kilometre. The sum of FTKs for every segment flown by every aircraft over a specific period is the FTK of an airline over that period.

RTK – AFTK - Available Freight Tonne Kilometres: the measure of a flight’s freight carrying capacity. Calculated by multiplying the number of tonne of freight on an aircraft by the distance travelled in kilometres. Used to measure an airline’s capacity to transport freight

What are the busiest airports in the world?

Why?

Top 30 Largest Cargo Airports (Source: ACI)

World’s Major Airports

Top 30 Largest Passenger Airports

Air Cargo Statistics 1999 v 2009

Cargo Hub Characteristics: AMS

Seasonality

• When is the busy/low time for air cargo, why?

Seasonality: HKG CaseNote the pre-Christmas period