IATA to downgrade air cargo growth forecast 'to something more sustainable'
IATA’s air cargo 2025 growth forecast for yields and volumes is set to fall, after ...
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By Alex Lennane
Airlines chasing volume, not value, will struggle to be profitable in a post-Covid era with fewer passengers, according to a new white paper, published today.
Airlines will have to rethink their core businesses if they are to make longhaul flying profitable again, argues consultant Stan Wraight, in SASI’s latest paper on the future for airlines and air cargo. And cargo should be at the core.
“Those airlines and airports that do start taking cargo as a core activity will benefit; those who ...
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Amit Agarwal
June 09, 2020 at 3:10 pmI have mentioned this before as comment on earlier posts…airlines haven’t taken cargo business seriously. It’s considered a tertiary business. All new routes opened are based in passenger demand and not cargo though cargo department gets all the brunt of not making up enough revenue for the losses made on passenger side. Having said one is that airlines look at their strategy but in bigger picture it all starts from the shipper and no one questions them which I believe is the biggest problem of the industry